If the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we don’t know a lot about many things. Over the past 10 months, we have stretched our
Financial Inclusion
The coronavirus pandemic has brought financial inclusion in Africa under the spotlight, we caught up with Austin Okere to get his thoughts on the lessons that have been learned
Digital banking start-ups are giving the conventional banking system a run for their money, literally outmuscling them in the race for consumer share in Africa. The term financial inclusion is often used within media circles when the topic
Efforts by fintech companies, commercial banks, and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) have been instrumental to the rising awareness of financial inclusion in Nigeria. Several products,solutions, and regulations have driven
Even though 800 million people in the sub-Saharan region of Africa don’t have access to mobile internet, mobile money solutions from mainstream banks have recorded successes in African countries with large
The IMF opines that startups find Africa’s low financial inclusion penetration to be a sweet spot for business The IMF opines that Africa’s low financial inclusion penetration is a
Over the past couple of years, a lot of Rwandan banks have had to alter the way they do business so they can keep up with the pressures from
Other African countries can now look to Sierra Leone’s blockchain-based financial inclusion program for inspiration. Several African countries with a large base of the unbanked population can look to Sierra Leone