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Nigeria’s banking recapitalization exercise wrapped up in March 2026 with 33 institutions collectively raising ₦4.65 trillion in fresh equity. FirstHoldCo Plc, the holding company that controls First Bank of Nigeria, already cleared that regulatory hurdle months earlier. But a filing dated May 6, 2026, shows the Femi Otedola-chaired group is not slowing down after meeting […]
If you hold Access Holdings shares for the income they typically deliver, the first half of 2026 could test your patience once more. The financial group just printed its most profitable year ever, crossing the N1 trillion mark in pre-tax earnings for the first time. Ordinarily, shareholders would be preparing to collect a generous payout […]
A viral online post has been circulating for days, claiming that Africa’s richest man secretly turned to four fellow billionaires for cash. The post sparked the kind of social-media frenzy you would expect when a story implicates the upper tier of African business. The story names some of Nigeria’s most recognizable business titans, attaches eye-popping […]
Deposit pricing used to be a quiet, predictable exercise. A treasury team reviewed competitor rates, adjusted a handful of posted tiers once a quarter, and relied on customer inertia to do most of the retention work.
For most of the past decade, the teller or call-center agent who suspected an older customer was being scammed could do surprisingly little about it.
For the better part of two years, agentic AI in banking has been discussed mostly as an internal efficiency story, in which autonomous software helps employees underwrite loans faster, triage fraud alerts, or write code.
For decades, the Bloomberg Terminal has been the top choice for professional market data and communication. If you visit a big bank or a hedge fund, you will see traders using these famous black screens.
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software has evolved into a strategic nerve center for finance teams. By 2026, the industry has moved past the era of static annual budgets.
European fintech funding has undergone a fundamental transformation. The era of growth at any cost has ended, replaced by investor demands for clear paths to profitability and sustainable business models.
Fintechs achieve remarkable growth velocity in their early years, but sustaining fintech margins at maturity requires fundamentally different capabilities than those driving initial scale.
Despite widespread predictions that open banking would disintermediate traditional financial institutions, banks that failed did so because of poor pricing governance, not regulatory mandates forcing data sharing.
As the payments stack fragments across multiple vendors and platforms, a robust payments pricing strategy has become the only sustainable way to differentiate in an increasingly commoditized market.
