30 results
- 24 Apr 2025
SANEF’s Uche Uzoebo Highlights AI as Next Frontier in Advancement of Financial Inclusion
With progress made in accelerating financial inclusion to unbanked and underbanked communities in Nigeria, the Shared Agent Network Expansion Facilities Limited (SANEF) has posited Artificial…
- 2 Dec 2018
PoS Innovation Summit Drives Acceptance of SANEF
The establishment of Shared Agent Network Expansion Facility (SANEF), powered by the Central Bank of Nigeria and Deposit Money Banks, aims to accelerate financial inclusion in Nigeria. The fourth…
- 14 Nov 2018
AMMAN Seeks Role in SANEF for Growth
Worried by the identified challenge of recruitment of agents without transactions in the Central Bank of Nigeria and Bankers’ committee shared agents network expansion initiative(SANEF), Association…
- 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…
- 26 Jan 2020
Financial Inclusion Agents Groan as SANEF Fails To Achieve Interoperability
Two months after, financial inclusion agents under the network of Shared Agent Network Expansion Facility, SANEF are yet to enjoy interoperability promised them, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek checks…
- 10 Dec 2020
9mobile, CBN, Ecobank, Others Brainstorm Deepening Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
As part of efforts to promote financial inclusion among the unbanked and underbanked population in Nigeria, innovative telecoms brand, 9mobile, joined Ecobank, Vanguard Newspapers, Sanef, and other…
- 13 Jan 2019
Stakeholders Seek Review of SANEF Strategy
Stakeholders in the agent banking ecosystem have urged Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Bankers’ committee to review current strategy of shared agents’ network expansion initiative (SANEF) to…
- 14 Jun 2024
9PSB CEO says Women are Breaking Barriers in Fintech and SMEs
9 Payment Service Bank (9PSB), Nigeria’s digital payment service bank, focused on financial inclusion, has echoed the impressive progress demonstrated by the female professionals and entrepreneurs in…
- 22 Apr 2026
Payments Forum Nigeria (PAFON 3.0) Holds This Friday in Lagos
Nigeria’s foremost payments and financial inclusion dialogue platform, Payments Forum Nigeria (PAFON 3.0), will hold this Friday, April 24, 2026, at the prestigious Lagos Oriental Hotel, Lekki Road,…
- 15 Dec 2020
Shago Unveils e-Commerce Platform Today
A new Nigerian fintech start-up, Shago Payments Limited, will today unveil its bill payment and e-commerce platform to serve the banked and unbanked locally and internationally. Sabastine Enechi, the…
- 21 Apr 2025
PAFON 2.0: Experts Discuss Pathways to Boost Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
Improved efforts at collaboration among financial service providers, telecommunication operators, and tech Startups, with conscious effort geared at consumer awareness, have been proffered as key…
- 9 Mar 2026
NICA Confers Professional Fellowship on Uche Uzoebo
The National Institute of Credit Administration (NICA) has conferred its Professional Fellowship on Mrs. Uche Uzoebo, Managing Director of Shared Agent Network Expansion Facilities (SANEF). The…
- 27 Mar 2025
Ebehijie Momoh, CEO of AfriGOPay to Deliver Keynote at PAFON 2.0
Ebehijie Momoh (Mrs), the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of AfriGOPay Financial Services Limited (AFSL), a subsidiary of NIBSS, has been announced as the keynote speaker for the second…
- 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…
- 28 May 2018
Paga Receives Award for Highest Transaction Performance from NIBBS
Paga has been presented an award by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems Plc (NIBBS) for the mobile money operator’s outstanding performance in achieving the highest transaction count on the…
- 20 Jun 2021
TeamApt Reiterates Commitment to Transform Financial Services in Africa
TeamApt, one of Nigeria’s leading Fintech companies, has reiterated its commitment to transform financial services in Africa. The company, “currently leading the country's agency banking industry,”…
- 20 Nov 2022
AMMBAN Blames Operators for Proliferation of Unlicensed POS Agents
The Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria (AMMBAN) has blamed operators in the financial services ecosystem for the proliferation of unlicensed point of sale terminal (POS) agents…
- 11 Mar 2020
Lagos Fintech Week2020 Organizers Unveil Speakers
Over 20 leading women in the financial technology will gather to discuss how to break down barriers identified in the ecosystem at the FemTech in Fintech Forum (FiFF), as part of series of events…
- 11 Oct 2019
IFINCA Sets to Honour Firms Pushing CBN’s Financial Inclusion Services
As the financial inclusion project of the Central Bank of Nigeria continued to gather steam in Nigeria and across the globe among firms, policy-makers and the media, the project is having a positive…
- 12 Jan 2021
TeamApt Begins New Consumer Focus, West & North Africa Expansion Plans for 2021
TeamApt, the Nigerian fintech company that provides digital financial services solutions and payment infrastructure, has announced that it will be shifting its focus from delivering financial…
- 3 Feb 2019
AMMAN, Others Seek Review PoS Guideline for Agent Business
Electronic payment stakeholders have urged central bank of Nigeria (CBN) to urgently review its guideline on the use of point of sale (PoS) terminal in the country. The present CBN guideline…
- 3 Nov 2019
SANEF, CBN Achieve Interoperability at Agents Banking Units This November
Financial inclusion initiative of central bank of Nigeria, CBN, will receive a boost next month as agent banking units under the initiative will begin to enjoy interoperability, Nigeria…
- 30 May 2025
Uche Uzoebo, SANEF CEO Makes Case for More Financial Inclusion Strategies Targeting Women
Leveraging digital infrastructure is key to accelerating financial inclusion, especially through a multi-stakeholder approach involving governments, fintechs, telecoms, regulators and even the…
- 23 Feb 2025
SANEF Appoints Uche Uzoebo as New Chief Executive Officer
Shared Agent Network Expansion Facilities (SANEF)Limited has appointed Mrs. Uche Uzoebo as its new Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, effective February 2025. Mrs. Uche Uzoebo succeeds Mrs.…
- 28 Oct 2025
Moniepoint Unveils Nigeria's First Informal Economy AI Chatbot, As FG Lauds Fintech Giant for Powering Business Growth Across the Country
Moniepoint Inc, Africa's leading business payments and personal banking servicing platform, has launched "M", Nigeria’s first artificial intelligence-powered chatbot dedicated to demystifying the…
- 9 Apr 2026
Digital Encode Sponsors PAFON 3.0 as CVO Prof. Adewale Set to Deliver Keynote on Cybersecurity and Trust
Digital Encode Limited has emerged the lead sponsor of the upcoming third edition of the forum (PAFON 3.0), the organisers have announced. PAFON 3.0 PAFON 3.0 is scheduled to take place on Friday,…
- 8 Apr 2025
Moniepoint Leads the Charge for Financial Inclusion @PAFON 2.0
Moniepoint Microfinance Bank, a subsidiary of Moniepoint Inc., Africa’s leading digital financial services provider and the Continent’s fastest growing financial institution, is set to demonstrate…
- 6 Apr 2025
Momoh, Uzoebo, Nwosu, Ibirogba, others for PAFON 2.0
The second edition of Payments Forum Nigeria (PAFON 2.0) is gathering momentum as organisers have unveiled a strong line of speakers. Featuring keynote presentation, fireside chat, panel discussion,…
- 23 Nov 2021
eNaira: CBN Rallies PSPs, Fintechs to Deepen Adoption
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday said it was working with key stakeholders in the payment system ecosystem to boost the adoption of its digital currency known as the eNaira. The…
- 15 Apr 2026
Fintech Giants PalmPay and TeamApt Back Nigeria’s Biggest Payments Forum
Payments Forum Nigeria (PAFON), the country’s leading industry platform for digital finance stakeholders, has announced PalmPay and TeamApt as key sponsors of the third edition of its flagship event,…