of Nigeria (CBN) to drive financial inclusion in the country.
Rob Shuter, the chief
executive officer at MTN Group, says the group will acquire an independent
banking licence in Nigeri usatimes.cc a by 2019.
Speaking at a telecoms
conference in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday, the MTN CEO said it will put
in an application in December and should lunch the bank in second quarter 2019.
“We will be applying for
a payment servi
usanews.cc ce banking licence in Nigeria in the next month or so,” Shuter
said.
“And if all goes
according to plan, we will also be launching mobile money in Nigeria probably
around Q2 of 2019.”
The banking licence is
for a Payment Service Bank (PSB), which is an offshoot of the initiative of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to drive financial inclusion in the country.
Last week, while
speaking at the 10th-anniversary conference of Enhancing Financial Innovation
and Access (EFInA), Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor, said the new banking
licenc
news es were to ensure 80 percent financial inclusion by 2020.
In October, the CBN
released guidelines for the payment service banks, which included a N2 million
non-refundable licence fee and N5 billion capital base.
The CBN guideline was
addressed to telcos, mobile money operators, banking agents, and the NCC.
It is expected that
Globacom, 9mobile, Airtel, and other telecommunications companies in the
country would acquire the same licence to operate payment service banks (PSB).
Source: Today News
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