In today’s highly dynamic financial world, the necessity of viable solutions that allow unbanked and underbanked people to use banking services has become more pressing than ever. One of the primary ...

Over the last few years, agency banking has emerged as a powerful force in bridging the financial inclusion gap, particularly in the rural and underserved regions of Kenya. Through a network of agents ...

Fintechs have revolutionised Nigeria’s financial services sector in ways that have caused economy growth in the last decade. Rural dwellers are top beneficiaries of the agency banking model which is ...

Central bank holdings of Agencies at the New York Fed have fallen by $9.4b this month (from $981.7b to 972.3b), while central bank holdings of Treasuries are up by close to $28.4b (from $1394.6b to ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) describes agency banking as the provision of banking and other financial services to the public through third parties. The practice enables banks and other financial ...

Absa Bank Ghana has launched its Agency Banking proposition, aimed at expanding access to financial services, particularly in peri-urban and rural communities where traditional banking infrastructure ...

The Trump transition team's reported consideration of merging major U.S. banking regulators — including by abolishing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and absorbing its deposit insurance functions ...