Nigeria’s physical banking shrinks in one year as customers turn to PoS terminals for daily transactions.

Data has shown that the number of Deposit Money Bank branches across the country fell from 5,373 in 2023 to 5,144 in 2024, even as electronic payments, particularly through PoS channels, surged sharply. The statistics cover branches and cash centres of commercial, merchant and non-interest banks across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory….

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Court grants GTBank order to recover N1.9bn erroneously credited to customer accounts in October 2024

Guaranty Trust (GTBank) has been granted a court order to recover ₦1.9 billion mistakenly credited to customer accounts between October 28 and 29, 2024. The error occurred when the bank processed duplicate transactions while handling unapplied NIP (NIBSS Instant Payment) inflows. Upon discovering the error, GTBank began an internal investigation, which revealed that some of…

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