{"id":4608,"date":"2021-06-16T13:07:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2021-06-16T13:07:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:07:42","slug":"nigeria-expects-400m-investment-on-financial-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/2021\/06\/16\/nigeria-expects-400m-investment-on-financial-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria expects $400m  investment on financial technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At its annual general meeting on Tuesday, FinTech Association of Nigeria, reported that the nation expected investment of $400 million in the financial technology ecosystem to top $400m this year.<br>It said that the funding in the fintech ecosystem topped $300m in 2020.<br>The Chief Operating Officer, FintechNGR, Dr Babatunde Obrimah, said, \u201cFintechs in the payment and e-commerce sectors experienced growth; there was an increase in the use of digital channels for payment transactions,\u201d<br>He said the association observed an increase in trading of digital currencies, adding that Nigeria was rated as the second-highest trading country in cryptocurrency with an estimated volume of $500m.<br>According to him, there is an increase in the agitation for central bank digital currencies.<br>The membership of the association grew from 56 in 2018 to 130 in 2019, and closed at 209 in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/nigeria-expects-400m-investment-on-financial-technology\/\">TO CONTINUE READING CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its annual general meeting on Tuesday, FinTech Association of Nigeria, reported that the nation expected investment of $400 million in the financial technology ecosystem to top $400m this year.It said that the funding in the fintech ecosystem topped $300m in 2020.The Chief Operating Officer, FintechNGR, Dr Babatunde Obrimah, said, \u201cFintechs in the payment and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}