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How banks, fintech can ‘drive financial inclusion’

Kolade AkinolabyKolade Akinola
16/02/2017
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A good mix between banks and financial technology is needed to drive forward Nigeria’s financial inclusion aspirations, industry experts have said ahead of the forthcoming Ennovators Breakfast Series [EBS] holding in Lagos.

As financial technology [FinTech] gradually seeps into the growth strategies of traditional banks, expert have expressed concern that the two components would need to work together in order to drive financial inclusion in the sector.

The basis for this concern is stemmed from the global best practices where Fintech, the term coined for financial services technology, has become an extremely fast-growing industry worldwide. Its growth has enabled banks in Europe and the US to innovate and develop products to suit customers’ lifestyles.

John Obaro, Managing Director of SystemSpecs Limited, makers of Remita payment platform
John Obaro, Managing Director of SystemSpecs Limited, makers of Remita payment platform

The basis for this concern is stemmed from the global best practices where Fintech, the term coined for financial services technology, has become an extremely fast-growing industry worldwide. Its growth has enabled banks in Europe and the US to innovate and develop products to suit customers’ lifestyles.

According to the MD/CEO of eMaginations, and organiser of Ennovators Breakfast Series [EBS], Sola Fanawopo, Nigeria is not an exception in the FinTech upsurge.

He said the global investment in FinTech is reported to have reached as high as $80 billion between 2010 and 2016.

“For some time after the global and local financial crisis, traditional banks have laid emphasis on regaining customers’ trust. I am happy that banks have realised the potential of FinTech and are now slowly joining the startups in the race. That is why it is heartening to know that a Nigerian call itself FinTech bank”.

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In large part, FinTech firms are becoming “disruptors” for good, and that the secret to maintaining the banking industry is to nurture the startups through which new technology is birthed, he says noting that to grow the banking industry, “should banks engage FinTechs for competitive advantage, should banks build, partners or acquire FinTechs?”

According to him, bank chiefs and FinTech founders such as Muhammad Jibrin, MD/CEO, of SunTrust Bank, Yele Okeremi, MD/CEO of Precise Financial Systems, John Obaro, MD/CEO of  Systemspecs and Uzoma Dozie, Group MD/CEO, Diamond Bank, would join other speakers at the Oriental Hotel, venue of EBS in March to examine how banks and FinTech should relate. “This edition of EBS will examine if the banks and FinTechs are friends or foes”, he said.

Fanawopo said EBS now in its seventh year is a quarterly cerebral breakfast event conceived to bring the Dreamers, Drivers, and Doers (3D) of technology business in ICT industry across Africa together with the objective of sharing key information that would promote business, impact lives, and birth new business relationships.

“As technology evolves, everything in the world is changing. The way banks, telcos, insurers and others sectors service customers is changing. This will continue to change as technology innovations emerge. EBS examines the preparedness of African firms to meet these changes”.

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