MTN gets mobile money licence in Nigeria
Group to benefit from efforts to give millions of Nigerians without bank accounts access to financial services
29 July 2019 - 20:46
A subsidiary of MTN Nigeria has been awarded a licence by the country’s central bank that would allow it to provide financial services, the telecoms firm said on Monday.
Nigeria announced last year that it would allow telecom companies to provide banking services, aiming to give millions of Nigerians without bank accounts access to mobile money services, a policy that has been successful in Kenya...
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