Loan business vs. Lending business: A difference every lender should know
Lender information

Loan business vs. Lending business: A difference every lender should know

One is run as a corporate machine with risk and compliance models, and the other is based on flexibility, personal contact, and sometimes punitive penalties for non-repayment.

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.

Urgent10k: Meeting the emergency cash needs of Nigerians
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Urgent10k: Meeting the emergency cash needs of Nigerians

Nigeria’s untapped consumer credit needs currently stands at about N109 trillion. Urgent10k is meeting the emergency cash needs of Nigerians