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- 13 May 2022
Access Bank Moves to Dominate Agency Banking
Access Bank in its bid to enhance financial inclusion has noted its intentions to significantly increase its customer base and deepen wallet share of the banking population riding on its agency…
- 13 Jul 2020
Union Bank to Expand Agency Banking Network
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has said it will continue to expand its agency banking network to complement its operations and to also increase financial inclusion in Nigeria The bank also said it…
- 30 Dec 2018
First Bank Extends Agency Banking Network
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has extended its agency banking network to 14 major markets and business points across Bayelsa, Cross River and Delta states through a campaign. The bank said in…
- 14 Jun 2019
NIPOST, Fidelity Bank Partner to Launch Agency Banking
Mohammed Balarabe, deputy managing director, Fidelity Bank Plc, has given the assurance that the bank will provide banking services in 266 branches through its Agency Banking Partnership with NIPOST…
- 16 Mar 2018
Keystone Bank, NIPOST Partner to Launch Agency Banking
Keystone Bank Limited has launched “KeyServ”(An Agency Banking proposition) to serve customers outside its conventional brick & mortar mode of banking. The initiative, which is in…
- 7 Mar 2022
Software Group Launches Fast-track Agency Banking in Nigeria
Software Group, a global financial technology provider, has launched its Fast-track Agency Banking software for Nigerian banks that want to expand their reach at speed and competitive cost.…
- 21 Apr 2026
Ezekiel Sanni, SVP Moniepoint Extols the MFB’s Track Record as Unique Service Model Redefining Nigeria’s Agency Banking
Moniepoint Microfinance Bank (Moniepoint MFB) has reaffirmed its leadership in Nigeria’s agency banking space, positioning its track record and distinctive service model as a game-changer for the…
- 10 May 2026
PAFON 3.0: Agency Banking Key to Reaching Millions of Unbanked Nigerians – AMMBAN
Dr. Obioha Oti, National President of the Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria (AMMBAN), has described agency banking as Nigeria’s most critical last-mile channel for achieving…
- 12 Jun 2020
SurePadi Agency Banking Processed N10Bn Transactions In 100 Days
SurePadi, Polaris Bank’s Agency Banking initiative, has serviced over half a million customers impacting directly an estimated two million households across the seven business regions of the Bank…
- 11 Sept 2012
Risks of Mobile Payment and Agency Banking
Nigeria is experiencing phenomenal growth in its banking and e-banking sectors with new policies and regulations that is driving cashlite, branchless Banking and agency banking services…
- 13 Oct 2016
EFInA Boosts Agency Banking with $100,015 Grant to FINCA MFB
In a bid to expand convenient, low cost and secure financial services to the unbanked women in South Eastern Nigeria, Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA), a financial sector…
- 4 Mar 2024
Ekiti to Engage 1000 Youths for Agency Banking Programme
Worried by the exodus of banks from many areas in the state, the Ekiti State government has disclosed that it is taking financial services to all 177 wards in the state through agency banking. It…
- 20 Mar 2022
AMMBAN Seeks Enforcement of CBN Guidelines in Tackling Abuses of Agency Banking
The Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria (AMMBAN) has called for more cohesive collaboration among stakeholders in the mobile money and agency banking sector in a bid to sanitize…
- 12 Oct 2023
CIBN Unveils Agency Banking Certification Program to Strengthen Financial Inclusion System
Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIBN) has unveiled Agency banking certification for point of sales (POS) agents, NIN /BVN agents, Agent network managers, customer service officers, agent banking…
- 19 Jan 2023
Our Agency Banking as a Service will Change the Face of Financial Inclusion – Pinto
Jaime Pinto is Chief Commercial Officer for Africa at Software Group. He is experienced in Payments/Financial solutions, Digital and Mobile solutions, Banking and Telecom industries. His…
- 6 Oct 2016
Redcloud Technologies, Innovectives Join Hands on Agency Banking in Nigeria
RedCloud Technologies, an enterprise software provider of leading mobile financial services technology has signed an agreement with Innovectives LLC to deploy its Cloud Based solution for Agency…
- 14 May 2019
Fintech Players, Regulators Reaffirm Commitment to Agency Banking
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Deputy Governor in charge of Financial Systems Stability, Mrs. Aishah Ahmad, has reiterated the apex bank’s commitment to the successful implementation of agent…
- 19 May 2019
Stakeholders Call for Technology Driven Agency Banking Approach
Information and Communications Technology stakeholders have urged central bank of Nigeria (CBN) to make technology the centre piece of agency banking in its financial inclusion programme in order to…
- 3 Mar 2016
CBN Approves Interswitch FIS, Firm Kick starts Aggressive Agency Banking Network
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted an Approval-in-Principle to Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services (IFIS), a subsidiary of Interswitch Group that has a mandate to grow an active Agent…
- 29 May 2025
SANEF, CIBN Partner to Expand Agency Banking Certification
Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria has expanded its Agency Banking Certification Programme through a tripartite collaboration between the Institute, FIC, and SANEF Limited. This partnership…
- 22 Jul 2024
CIBN Commences Tutorial Session for Agency Banking Certification Examination
Tutorial sessions for the students registered for the October 2024 diet examinations for Agency Banking Certification of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) have begun. The first in…
- 23 Apr 2019
PoS Innovation Summit to Drive Agency Banking
The Fintech industry in Nigeria is warming up for yet another round of electrifying discourses at the PoS Innovation Summit scheduled to hold on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at The Wheatbaker, Ikoyi. The…
- 7 May 2026
NITDA Warns of AI-Powered DeepLoad Malware Targeting Banks, Govt Agencies
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has raised alarm over a new artificial intelligence-powered malware known as “DeepLoad,” warning that the cyber threat is actively…
- 18 Sept 2019
Rethinking Agency Banking with New Innovations in Nigeria
Emmanuel Okoegwale Few weeks ago, I attended a national financial services agency forum, organized by one of the leading industry players in Nigeria with very impressive attendance from agents,…
- 14 Jul 2019
Connectivity, Hi-Tech Devices Slow Agency Banking @ Rural Areas
Financial inclusion agents saddled with the responsibility of offering banking services to unbanked especially those in the rural areas where banks are not in sight, have identified poor mobile…
- 18 Jul 2021
AMMBAN Decries Agency Banking Abuse in the Financial Inclusion Policy
Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria (AMMBAN ) has frowned at none compliance and monitoring of activities of agents deployed on the financial inclusion programme of Central Bank of…
- 8 Jan 2014
Nigeria Ripe For Agency Banking- Bickersteth
One Network, an industry-focused organisation, recognised by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as agent manager, has said that Nigeria is overdue for Agent Bank scheme. The Company providing agent…
- 3 Sept 2024
Rating Agencies Reaffirm Globus Bank National Credit Rating of A-, Stable Outlook
Globus Bank said Nigeria’s foremost rating agencies, Agusto & Co last month, affirmed its A- rating, describing the bank as “A financial institution of good financial condition and strong…
- 8 Oct 2014
Fitch Says Nigerian Banks Performing Well Despite Hurdles
Europen rating agency, Fitch Ratings, yesterday gave Nigerian banks clean bill of health, in spite of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) tight monetary policy and new banking rules. The rating…
- 16 Jun 2022
FCMB Provides 300,000 Underbanked Nigerians with Microloans worth N40bn
First City Monument Bank (FCMB), through EasyAgents, its agency banking network and other channels, has successfully onboarded and empowered one million financially excluded Nigerians, ensuring they…