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- 11 Dec 2020
Visa Partners Access Bank to Launch Business Debit Card for SMEs
Visa, the world leader in digital payments, has partnered with Access Bank Plc to introduce a Business Debit Card targeted at SMEs in Nigeria. This will create efficiency and transparency in SMEs’…
- 30 Apr 2026
Nigeria’s CardForté Turns Five, Showcasing Impact on Domestic Payment Infrastructure
For Nigeria's rapidly expanding financial sector, the true bottleneck to scaling has rarely been user acquisition; it has been the physical infrastructure of payments. On April 24, 2026, at the Lagos…
- 13 Feb 2024
Mastercard Taps Folasade Femi-Lawal as New Country Manager for West Africa
Mastercard, a leading company in digital payments and technology, is pleased to announce the appointment of Folasade Femi-Lawal as the new Country Manager and Area Business Head for West Africa. With…
- 6 Jul 2016
MasterCard, Virtual Card Services Launch ‘vPOS’ Virtual Payment Solution
Small enterprises and mobile businesses can now accept digital card payments in-store, remotely or on-the-go using their connected mobile devices, following the launch of Virtual Card Service’s…
- 2 Jul 2012
Experts Suggest Ways to Rejig Cashless
After seeing the cashless economy get off on a shaky start, experts have canvassed the need for more government interventions to discourage cash transactions in every business segments of the…
- 16 Dec 2024
Mastercard Partners with Allawee to Enhance Financial Access in Nigeria
Allawee, one of Nigeria’s leading digital lending fintech, in collaboration with Mastercard, has launched a credit-building card designed to enhance financial access for federal civil servants and…
- 13 Aug 2019
Interswitch Unveils Verve Global Card
Verve, one of the leading payment technology and card business in Africa, in partnership with Discover Global Network, the payments brand of Discover, was recently launched the Verve Global Card.…
- 17 Apr 2014
ATMs @ Risk as Banks Miss Microsoft Windows Deadline
Nigerians may experience glitches at automated teller machines (ATMs) as most banks in the country are yet to migrate to Windows 8 Operating System (OS) after Microsoft Corporation retired Windows XP…
- 17 Sept 2014
Vodacom Business Reaffirms Commitment to Providing Cloud Services
Nkosi Kumalo, executive head, Cloud and Hosted Services, Vodacom Business Nigeria, has said that Vodacom Business cloud services offers organization solutions and capabilities which brings about…
- 23 Jan 2020
Team Earth Emerges Winner of InterswitchSPAK 2.0 Innovation Challenge
Team Earth has emerged from the InterswitchSPAK 2.0 Innovation Challenge, which was organized to spark innovation among the youths, especially teenage students. Team Earth is a group of nine…
- 17 Dec 2023
Mastercard to Drive Digital Payment Transformation in Nigeria through Contactless Solutions
Mastercard leads the charge in transforming Nigeria's payment landscape as it unveils its contactless payment solutions. The solution will empower businesses to accept card payments easily and cost…
- 14 Sept 2009
FCMB Introduces MasterCard Prefunded Picture Card
\First City Monument Bank Plc (FCMB) has introduced the first MasterCard Prefunded Picture Card into the Nigerian financial market. The new FCMB MasterCard Prefunded Picture Card with enhanced…
- 29 Jan 2016
Interswitch Pioneers Card Transaction Control with Wema Card Control
Interswitch Transnational, Africa’s fastest growing technology company, has announced the launch of an innovative new solution for setting card transaction permissions and controlling transaction…
- 26 Mar 2024
Mastercard and Zenith Bank Introduce New Payment Cards to Accelerate Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
Mastercard has today announced the launch of two innovative products in collaboration with Zenith Bank, the Mastercard Naija Card and the World Elite Credit Card, designed to address the diverse…
- 9 May 2017
The Evolution Of Banking & How It Will Impact Business, Social Conduct
In this piece, Omokehinde Adebanjo, Vice President and Area Business Head for West Africa for Mastercard, looks at the evolution of banking and how it will impact business and social conduct,…
- 21 Feb 2012
Nigeria can Easily Transit to eTransactions – Chuma Ezirim
Chuma Ezirim is head, eBusiness group in First Bank Plc that is in charge of developing and managing eChannels and Card business in the bank. He holds a B.Sc in Industrial Chemistry, University of…
- 26 Jul 2010
Gavin Young Succeeds Ebuehi as ChamsSwitch’s General Manager
The management of Chams Nigeria Plc has appointed Mr. Gavin Young as the new General Manager of its subsidiary, ChamsSwitch. Young succeeds Mr. Francis Ebuehi, the pioneered General Manager of the…
- 20 Feb 2017
SystemSpecs Hires Olowe as Executive Director
SystemSpecs, the owner of electronic payment solution Remita, has appointed Mr. Adedeji Olowe as its new executive director Adedeji according to a statement, was saddled with the responsibility of…
- 28 Jul 2024
Wema Bank Launches ALATPay, Payment Gateway for MSMES
Wema Bank has launched ALATPay, a payment gateway platform designed to provide a secure end-to-end shopping experience for customers and instant settlement for merchants. The platform offers a fully…
- 27 May 2022
Unity Bank Yanga Product Positioned to Empower Underbanked Women Entrepreneurs – Olufunwa Akinmade
Mr. Olufunwa Akinmade, divisional head, Retail, SME Banking and E-Business, Unity Bank Plc, has explained that the “raison d’etre for launching the Bank’s latest retail product called Yanga is to…
- 5 Feb 2018
Firstbank ATMs Dispense N2.8 Trn in 1 Month
First Bank of Nig. Ltd. said its Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) dispensed over N2.8 trillion from January 2017 to December 2017. Chuma Ezirim, bank's Group Head of E-Business said in a…
- 5 Aug 2022
FirstBank Rewards Customer with Car in Verve Card Campaign Finale Promo
The First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. has rewarded the grand prize winner of its Verve Card campaign, Mr Olakunle Animasaun, the Chairman of Kanwl International Ltd., with a brand new car. The 14-week promo…
- 21 Feb 2017
Ekeh, Zinox Boss Inspires Youth @ Harvesters Entrepreneurship Forum
Leo Stan Ekeh, serial digital entrepreneur and chairman of Zinox Group, has disclosed that a multitude of opportunities exist for the current generation to create and sustain new wealth in the…
- 5 May 2013
Dual Sim Phones, Others Hobble MNP
Mobile number portability (MNP) arrived with pomp and ceremony a fortnight ago; but the growth has been hobbled by undecided Nigerians who already carry multiple mobile devices, Nigeria…
- 26 Jan 2009
Managing and Maximizing your Business Website
It is a common feature in Nigeria to see businesses not having websites, the ones that have do not maintain them. Your business website is a representation of your entire business on the World Wide…
- 25 Feb 2015
MasterCard, Grooming Centre to Extend ePayments to MSMEs in Nigeria
MasterCard and Grooming Centre have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see electronic payment solutions extended to 500,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in peri-urban…
- 19 Dec 2016
Zenith Bank, Mastercard Partnership Set to Strengthen Ghana’s Banking System
Mastercard and Zenith Bank have extended their partnership in West Africa to now include Ghana. The agreement is geared towards issuing a suite of digital payment solutions that include prepaid,…
- 16 Jun 2015
Mahindra Comviva Enhances payPLUS for Omni-Channel Payment Acceptance
Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in providing mobility solutions, has announced the launch of enhanced edition of payPLUS with a full blown omni-channel offering by enabling in app and web based…
- 16 May 2023
Mastercard, FCMB Partner to Launch Tap on Phone Contactless Payment Solution
Mastercard, in partnership with First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and Netplus, have launched a contactless payment solution that enables consumers, merchants, and financial institutions to process…
- 19 Mar 2025
UBA Launches Afrigo Card to Revolutionise Domestic Payments
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc. Africa’s Global Bank, has launched the Afrigo Card, a revolutionary domestic card scheme aimed at transforming the Nigerian payments landscape. Officials of UBA at…