March 19 2019
To chart a new course for the financial services industry in Nigeria and the African continent, Sterling Bank Plc, one of Nigeria’s forward-looking financial institutions, has formally committed to the development of the Application Programming Interface (API) standard for financial...
August 2 2018
Mobile technology company, Africa’s Talking, has joined the league of technology companies partnering with Open Banking Nigeria in the development of Open APIs for the Nigerian financial industry. Africa’s Talking provides communication APIs for SMS, USSD, voice, etc. to help...
June 24 2018
As the effort to establish open banking API standards in Nigeria intensifies, Open Vector, one of the world’s most competent Open API consulting companies, has released a detailed report on Open Banking Nigeria. The report written by Open Vector for...
June 24 2018
Abstract This study, commissioned by open Banking Nigeria (OBN) analyses the current situation in Nigeria with respect to open banking and what might be learned from other open banking initiatives notably in the UK and Europe. The key finding is...
June 17 2018
Citi is gearing up to become the first corporate bank to enroll as a Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) with UK Open Banking Directory. According to news sources, CitiBank will join UK’s Open Banking framework to provide an aggregated...
June 17 2018
Leading Open Banking platform provider Token.io Limited has made history by becoming the first licensed Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) to conduct an end-to-end payment through a public bank API. As a result, millions of customers are set to benefit...
April 29 2018
As the banking system moves to deliver quality services to consumers in the 21st century driven by new technological advancements, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has declared its interest in Open Banking System which grants bank customers easy access...
April 26 2018
As part of a global alliance, Open Banking Nigeria has entered a strategic alliance with Open Vector to jointly develop the Open Banking Nigeria API standards. Open Vector is a strategic change advisory firm specializing in providing Open Banking consulting...
April 8 2018
Managing Partner, Blue Advisory, Opeyemi Ndukwe has described opportunities that abound with open banking platform as prospects that its end cannot be quantified now. Ndukwe who was at the launch of the platform in Lagos said that open banking is...
April 8 2018
by Adedeji Olowe This is the email that birthed Open Banking Nigeria; just 2 minutes to midnight on June 1, 2017. Sent to those unfortunate to be my friends and so, are subject to never-ending streams of half-baked ideas and...
January 30 2025
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.
