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www .interswitchgroup .com. Interswitch is a leading African integrated payments and digital commerce platform company headquartered in Lagos. Founded in 2002 in Nigeria, as a transaction switching and processing company with national focus, Interswitch progressively evolved to incorporate consumer financial services with the successive ...
Zenith Bank Plc is a large financial service provider in Nigeria and Anglophone West Africa, headquartered in Victoria Island, Lagos. It is licensed as a commercial bank by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the national banking regulator. As of 31 December 2019, it holds $16.1bn in total assets, with shareholders' equity of $854 million.
The first domestic bank In Nigeria was established in 1929 and called the Industrial and Commercial Bank. The bank liquidated in 1930 and was replaced by Mercantile Bank in 1931. The African Continental Bank was created in 1949 as the only sustainable indigenous bank after the liquidation of the Industrial and Commercial Bank. The year 1947 ...
Verve was founded in 2009, as a subsidiary of Interswitch. In 2013, it became an autonomous business entity in a restructuring exercise. [2] In 2005 the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued a mandate to the Nigerian payment industry that operators should migrate from magnetic strip to EMV chip and PIN platform by 2009.
Paystack is a Nigerian financial technology company that offers payment processing services to businesses and was acquired by Irish-American financial services company Stripe for $200M in 2020. [1] [2] Its headquarters is located in Lagos, Nigeria. [3]
A payment service provider ( PSP) is a third-party company that allows businesses to accept electronic payments, such as credit card and debit card payments. PSPs act as intermediaries between those who make payments, i.e. consumers, and those who accept them, i.e. retailers. [1]
Moniepoint Inc. was founded in 2015 by Tosin Eniolorunda and Felix Ike, who met during their time at Interswitch. Moniepoint Inc. was founded under the name “TeamApt” to provide back-end services to Nigerian banks. [3] [4] In 2019, Moniepoint Inc. received a switching license in Nigeria. [5] In 2022, Moniepoint received a banking license ...
Sterling Financial Holdings Company Plc. Sterling Bank Ltd. [1] is a full-service national commercial bank licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. On Reuters and Bloomberg terminals, it is identified as STERLNB.LG and STERLNBA:NL respectively. [2] The Bank provides services to individuals, small businesses, and large corporations.