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‘Agent Banking, POS driving last-mile access for unbanked, under-banked’

Strong rise in access to digital financial services especially by the unbanked is being experienced nationwide due to massive rollout of agent banking and Point of Sales (PoS) terminals as key drivers of last-mile access to formal digital financial services….

Access Bank navigating Nigeria with agent banking to drive financial inclusion

…Boosts of 15,000 agents nationwide Retail giant and largest banking group in Africa, Access Bank is currently fast-forwarding the nation’s drive in financial inclusion and banking the underserved with tailor-made agency banking outlets across the country. Giving insights at a…

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MasterCard, IFC unveil benchmarks for agent banking, mobile money solutions

New collaboration between the Mastercard Foundation and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has come up with a masterstroke that will expand digital financial inclusion in Africa. The innovation stemmed from a digital study released jointly by the duo, titled ‘Aligning…