Report: Fintech's Growing Popularity a Threat to Profitability of Nigerian Banks
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Report: Fintech's Growing Popularity a Threat to Profitability of Nigerian Banks

THELOGICALINDIAN - Financial technology companies fintechs are now amid the better threats to the all-embracing advantage of Nigerian banks analysts from the countrys Coronation Merchant Bank CMB accept warned

The Efficiency of Fintech

As a report agitated by bounded media explains, this blackmail from fintech casework stems from their growing acceptance with “tech-literate” customers. According to CMB analysts, such barter adopt application the added able casework offered by fintechs to visiting concrete branches of accepted banks.

Although Nigerian accepted banks are “apparently not concerned” about this threat, the media report, however, quotes Guy Czartoryski, arch of analysis at CMB, answer why the allegation of his bank’s abstraction charge be taken seriously. Using internet banks such as Kuda, Carbon and Rubies as examples of fintech casework that affectation a blackmail to banks, Czartoryski explained:

Banks Already Competing With Fintechs

Meanwhile, the aforementioned address additionally quotes Czartoryski answer why banks are acutely aloof to this threat. According to Czartoryski, banks are not ever anxious because they “see themselves as ally with internet banks, alms barter banknote withdrawals and bartering them with allowance service.”

In addition, accepted banks “also action their own USSD-based offerings.” This, therefore, suggests that accepted banks are aggressive with internet banks in some areas. Still, Czartoryski concludes that alone “time will acquaint whether the accepted banks are justified in their confidence, or alone complacent.”

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