Customer count or profitability: which is more important for a lender?
Growth marketing

Customer count or profitability: which is more important for a lender?

Running a lending business, as is the case with running any other business, requires business owners to make some tough decisions. Most lenders, especially those new to the lending business, are typically faced with the high-consequence question: “What should I primarily focus on -growing my customer count or growing profitably?” The former is concerned with […]

đŸŽ„ You can now request videos during loan applications 

đŸŽ„ You can now request videos during loan applications 

Hello, and Happy New Month! 🎉 Welcome to October! To our Nigerian lenders, we extend our warmest congratulations on celebrating Independence Day 🇳🇬. As we enter the final quarter of the year, it’s time to reflect on the goals you set for your lending business at the start of 2024. Whether you’ve met them or […]

Lenders battle against fraudsters; a case for an industry blacklist
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Lenders battle against fraudsters; a case for an industry blacklist

As digital lending surges in Nigeria, fraud has quietly become one of the industry’s biggest threats, with coordinated identity theft and serial loan defaulters overwhelming individual lenders who battle in isolation. The danger isn’t unique. Kenya offers a stark warning, with an estimated 3.2 million people blacklisted on the country’s TransUnion credit bureau. Without a unified industry blacklist to identify and curb repeat offenders, Nigerian lenders risk following the same path, continually staying several steps behind increasingly sophisticated fraudsters.