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Why CBN Licensed Payment Service Banks
Bank account ownership is quite compulsory in many developed countries of the world. Research shows that nearly…
COVID-19: Economic Crisis May Cause Banks To Fail Stress-Tests
The coronavirus pandemic has deeply impacted the situation in the world – especially the economic one. A lot of…
How Nigeria’s New Banks Law, BOFIA, Will Impact Financial Sector
In assenting into law of the BOFIA 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari said the new legislation represents a…
Four Key Risks Could Make 2021 The Toughest Year For Banks Since 2009, Says…
S&P Global Ratings warned that banks could face their toughest year since the aftermath of the global financial…
Nigeria To Tap $750 Mln World Bank Loan For Local Regions
Nigeria is in the process of accessing a $750 million World Bank loan to enable local states to support vulnerable…
Wealthy Nigerians Seek To Secure Future With Dominica’s Citizenship By…
LONDON, Nov. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- With a looming recession, inflation on the rise and a lack of security, high…
Banks’ Patronage At CBN’s Liquidity Window Drops To N48b
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that daily patronage of the Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) by…
Banks’ Borrowings From CBN Crashes By 93%
MONEY MARKET
Deposit Money Banks’ reliance on the loans from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) fell sharply by…
Nigerian Banks To Fail Stress Tests Should Economic Slump Deepen
Nigerian lenders will drop below minimum capital buffers required by regulators should the economy shrink further…
Mutual Funds Are Next Big Thing In Nigerian Finance’
Mutual Funds are gaining wide acceptance in Nigeria’s investment climate, with savvy investors choosing the…
Nigeria And Digital Banking
I often wonder about the wind of change that is sweeping across the Nigerian banking industry, especially the…
How Fintech Companies Revolutionised Banking
The advent of financial technology (fintech) companies have changed the dynamics in the nation’s banking and…
Bank Of Canada Holds Rate Steady, Says COVID-19 Economic Recovery Likely By 2022
OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate on hold Wednesday as it said the country's economy won't…
Bank Of England Gives Banks Breathing Space Over Crisis Plans
Britain’s main banks will have extra time before they have to say publicly how they could be closed down in a…
Bank Closure Leaves Customers Stranded In Abakaliki
The continued closure of commercial banks in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, in the wake of the violent…
Bank To Commence BVN Registration For 774,000 SPW Jobs
Heritage Bank Plc has said it is set to commence the account opening with Bank Verification Numbers for the…
Court Vacates N24b Order Against Central Bank Of Nigeria
A Federal High Court in Abuja has set aside an order against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in respect of a…
Morgan Stanley Dares To Share With Bankers’ Pay
Morgan Stanley is making more, and paying more. Logical as that sounds, it’s also rather daring. Handing over big…
Exclusive: Second Sovereign Downgrade Wave Coming, Major Nations At Risk –…
Some of the world’s top economies could see their credit ratings cut or put on downgrade warnings in the coming…
Banking Sector Credit Rises To N18.90tn Nationwide
The total banking industry credit to customers in the 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory…
Bank Offers Salary Advance To Non-Customers
Polaris Bank has re-launched its popular Salary Advance with an added capability of enabling non-account holders to…
Coronavirus Accelerates Nigeria’s Digital Banking Push
Civil servant Amos Dam is frustrated after waiting two hours to enter a bank in Nigeria’s capital Abuja. He is one…
Bank Of England Denies Negative Interest Rate Hint
Bank of England (BOE) governor Andrew Bailey has denied that the central bank’s latest policy statement implied…
Survival Strategies Pushing Banks In Nigeria Away From Lending
The economic downturn in Nigeria is forcing the nation’s lenders to rewrite their business plans.
A shortage of…
Experts warn as ATMs breed dirty notes
Experts, yesterday, blamed the preponderance of dirty notes on corruption and lack of political will, as 22,000…
Banks Eye Layoffs As Short-Term Crisis Ends, Long-Term Costs Emerge
At the height of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, the heads of U.S. banks including Morgan Stanley, Bank of…
Citibank Sent A Hedge Fund $175 Million By Mistake. Now It’s Struggling To…
Citibank has a big problem: It mistakenly wired roughly $175 million to Brigade Capital Management, and the hedge…
Sterling Unfazed By Higher Inflation, Still Driven By Dollar
Sterling remained driven by the weaker U.S. dollar on Wednesday in thin August trading, even though British…
Nigeria: Foreign Reserves Fall By $544.94m In Six Weeks
The country’s foreign reserves fell by $544.94m from $36.17bn on July 1 to $35.62bn on August 13, the latest…
Global Investment Banks To Be Exempted From Turkey’s Lira Limits
Turkish authorities are working on a plan to exempt global investment banks from some restrictions on swapping…