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.
A cultural view of loan defaults in Rwanda
Any lasting reduction in default rates will depend not only on stricter systems but also on solutions that align with Rwanda’s social norms, communal values, and the realities of how households manage money under varying economic pressures.
11 things you need to start a loan business in Rwanda
You'll need to register your business as a legal entity. But that's only one of 11 things you need to start a loan business in Rwanda.