What do borrowers want from lenders?
Understanding what borrowers truly want goes beyond offering quick loans or competitive rates. Today’s borrowers value transparency, speed, flexibility, and a seamless digital experience. They want lenders who communicate clearly, offer fair terms, and provide support when it matters most. Meeting these expectations is not just about attracting customers, it’s about building trust, loyalty, and long-term relationships in an increasingly competitive lending market.
What license do I need to lend?
To own and operate a lending business in Nigeria, you need a license. However, knowing what license is right could be a little difficult. Understand which license best represents your business’s needs.
Lendsqr and Mono partner to power the next generation of lenders
Lendsqr and Mono have joined forces to redefine what is possible for digital lenders in Africa. By combining Lendsqr’s robust lending infrastructure with Mono’s seamless financial data access, this partnership unlocks smarter credit decisions, faster onboarding, and safer lending for millions.
Ethical ways to recover loans
Recovering loans ethically is one of the toughest challenges Nigerian lenders face. Contrary to common assumptions, the biggest obstacle isn’t funding, technology, or regulation, it’s the alarming reality that many Nigerians simply don’t pay back their loans. While financial hardship plays a part, a significant number of borrowers are willfully reluctant to repay. This article explores ethical, effective strategies lenders can use to recover loans without resorting to harassment or illegal practices.
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.
