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Nigeria’s digital payment ecosystem is at a crossroads. While digital payment adoption is growing, with over 60% of the population engaging in online transactions, many Nigerians still face persistent barriers: transaction failures, delays in receiving one-time passwords (OTPs), and security...
December 31 2024
Open banking. The buzzword that has everyone nodding in agreement, but if you stop the average person on the street—or even in the boardroom—they’d struggle to tell you what it really means. Is it APIs? Fancy fintech dashboards? Or is...
December 31 2024
Imagine a world where access to credit isn’t just a privilege for the fortunate few but a foundational layer of everyday life—like clean water or electricity. Now, hold that thought and ask yourself: why is it that in a country...
November 30 2024
One could say NIBSS was built for this pivotal moment in Nigeria’s financial history. Back in 1993, the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Bankers’ Committee brought in NIBSS to solve a massive problem—Nigerian banks couldn’t talk to each other....
November 29 2024
Most business owners in Nigeria are sitting on opportunities they don’t even know exist. While everyone is busy talking about “scaling up” or finding the next big import deal, there’s a quiet revolution happening right under our noses—open banking. The...
November 29 2024
Data privacy in open banking isn’t the headline-grabbing attention in Nigeria. It’s not the celebrity scandal everyone talks about, and it’s certainly not what you’ll see trending on Twitter on a random Tuesday. But maybe it should be. Because right...
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Open Banking Nigeria (Open Technology Foundation) is a non-profit backed by a group of industry experts across banking, fintech, risk management, and more to drive and launch the open banking standard in Nigeria.