The African Development Bank’s initiative, the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI), and Y’ello Digital Financial Services (YDFS), the fintech subsidiary of MTN Nigeria, have signed an agreement for a $500,000 grant initiative to determine the feasibility of deploying women agents in the northern part of Nigeria where, due to security issues and cultural […]
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Cashless 2.0: The Second Coming of Cashless and the Rise of “Fintechs” by Akeem Lawal
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On the 21st of February this year, the Central Bank of Nigeria announced the re-introduction of the Cashless policy. The cashless policy of the CBN, first introduced in January 2012, is aimed at achieving three main objectives; First, the development and modernization of Nigeria’s payment systems to drive economic development, secondly providing more efficient transaction […]