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Business

Troyka Holdings Chair, Biodun Shobanjo, Inducted into Loeries Hall of Fame

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Finance Min, Wale Edun, to Keynote FiBOP Annual Confab Oct 18

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Niteon Unveils First African Manufacturers Bank to Unlock $200bn Digital Export Market

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ICT

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Telecom Infrastructure Critical to Successful 2023 Elections – Danbatta

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Capital Market

SEC DG: Commission Considering Gradual Implementation of ISSB Standards

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ISSB-Aligned Disclosures Will Lower Capital Costs, Attract Global Investors — SEC

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SEC DG to Cadets:  Invest Early, Long Term to Create Wealth

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SEC DG: Accountability, Transparency will Boost Investor Confidence in Capital Market

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SEC DG: Digital Assets Represent $10tn Opportunity by 2030

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Insurance

13-year-old Rhema-Love Abraham Emerges Winner of 2025 Heirs Insurance Essay Championship

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Leadway Assurance: Insurance Company of the Year at 2025 BAFI Awards

L-R: Managing Director, Leadway Assurance, Gboyega Lesi; Publisher, BuisnessDay...

Heirs Insurance Group Announces Inaugural Travel Festival: A Call for Inclusive Travel Ecosystem for Africans

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Sovereign Trust Insurance Celebrates 2025 Customer Service Week

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Leadway: 55 Years of Innovation, Expanding Financial Access, Inclusion Across West Africa

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Business

Troyka Holdings Chair, Biodun Shobanjo, Inducted into Loeries Hall of Fame

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Finance Min, Wale Edun, to Keynote FiBOP Annual Confab Oct 18

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Niteon Unveils First African Manufacturers Bank to Unlock $200bn Digital Export Market

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FG Boosts MSME Financing with NCGC Initiative

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ICT

Konga Partners Verve to Delight Customers with Free Shopping Vouchers

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Capital Market

SEC DG: Commission Considering Gradual Implementation of ISSB Standards

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SEC DG to Cadets:  Invest Early, Long Term to Create Wealth

Graduating Cadets of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) have...

SEC DG: Accountability, Transparency will Boost Investor Confidence in Capital Market

The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission...

SEC DG: Digital Assets Represent $10tn Opportunity by 2030

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Insurance

13-year-old Rhema-Love Abraham Emerges Winner of 2025 Heirs Insurance Essay Championship

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Leadway Assurance: Insurance Company of the Year at 2025 BAFI Awards

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Heirs Insurance Group Announces Inaugural Travel Festival: A Call for Inclusive Travel Ecosystem for Africans

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Leadway: 55 Years of Innovation, Expanding Financial Access, Inclusion Across West Africa

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E-Payment Transactions Hit N264tn in Q2 2020-NBS

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says a total volume of 2,160,436,659 transactions valued at N263.78 trillion were recorded in Q2 2020 as data on Electronic Payment Channels in the Nigeria Banking Sector revealed.

Online Transfer transactions dominated the volume of transactions recorded. 1,317,621,686 volume of Online Transfer transactions valued at N72.25 trillion were recorded in Q2 2020.

In terms of credit to private sector, the total value of credit allocated by the bank stood at N18.82 trillion as at Q2 2020. Oil & Gas and Manufacturing sectors got credit allocation of N3.62 trillion and N3.07 trillion to record the highest credit allocation as at the period under review.

As at Q2 2020, the total number of bank staff decreased by -2.55% QoQ; from 96,975 in Q1 2020 to 94,498.

Data source: National Bureau of Statistics

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Topics

IEI Anchor Pension: N55bn Pension Assets, 90,000 RSAs, 23 States

IEI Anchor Pension Managers Limited is currently managing pension assets of over N55 billion in its portfolio from 90, 000 Retirement Savings Account [RSA] holders in 23 states of the federation. Mr. Glory Etaduovie, Managing Director/CEO, IEI Pension Managers Limited said the company’s growth pace is faster now as it continues to gain more ground in the pension market. He said the growth plan of the company is aggressive increase in the number of RSAs.

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Akporjii of Nigeria Elected Secretary, African Housing Finance Union

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Sterling One Woman Partners Society for Corp Governance on IWD

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Microsoft Unveils Fund for Affordable Internet

Microsoft Corporation has launched a new fund to cultivate companies with solutions that bring affordable Internet access to underserved markets. The fund is part of Microsoft’s Affordable Access Initiative, which invests in new last-mile access technologies, cloud-based services and applications, and business models that can reduce the cost of Internet access and help more people affordably get online. “Today there are approximately four billion people globally without Internet access,” said Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President of Business Development at Microsoft. “The ability to close that gap is more achievable than ever with technology that is readily available and affordable in many parts of the world. Through this fund, we hope to kick-start the entrepreneurial process by identifying promising ideas that we can help nurture, grow and scale.”
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