Centenary Rural Development Bank Limited

This article walks through Nigeria’s Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act in a way that connects the legal provisions to how lending businesses actually operate.

This article compiles common questions that bankers, fintech leaders, compliance officers, and customers are asking about open banking.

Banks used to win by size because lending rewarded scale: large banks employed armies of underwriters, maintained branches in every district, and stored customer records in costly legacy systems that slowed change and hid useful data. Small lenders could move faster in a neighbourhood or a niche, yet that speed rarely translated into wide reach […]