Just in: MTN Nigeria unveils Yello Digital Financial Services Limited to lead Fintech
MTN Nigeria today (Monday, July 29, 2019) announced the coming on stream of its subsidiary, Yello Digital Financial Services Limited (YDFS) has been granted a full Super Agent Licence by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to drive financial technology (Fintech) innovative banking in Nigeria.
The Super Agent licence, according to the provisions will enable the scale launch of MTN Nigeria’s fintech strategy and further power MTN to convert its existing airtime agents and recruit other small businesses to distribute financial services.
Business Hilights recalls that YDFS received approval in principle for its Super-Agent Licence in December 2018 and has been conducting a pilot project since then to meet the conditions of a full licence. The successful pilot has now led to the granting of a full licence under which YDFS will distribute financial services to all Nigerians.
Explaining more on the licence, MTN CEO, Ferdi Moolman averred that “We are very pleased that YDFS has been granted a Super-Agent Licence, which enables us to extend access to financial services to a much broader group of Nigerians”.
“This forms part of our commitment to contribute towards the achievement of Nigeria’s financial inclusion goals. Through the network established by YDFS MTN is in a position to broaden the availability of financial services for the under-served across the country. This marks a very important first step in leveraging our infrastructure to scale our Fintech initiatives. We have also applied for a Payment Service Bank Licence, which will enable us in time to offer a broader and deeper range of financial services to those communities and we remain hopeful we will receive approval shortly,” excited Moolman noted.
