Financial technology companies (fintechs) are now among the biggest threats to the overall profitability of Nigerian banks, analysts from the country’s Coronation Merchant Bank (CMB) have warned.
The Efficiency of Fintech
As a report carried by local media explains, this threat from fintech services stems from their growing popularity with “tech-literate” customers. According to CMB analysts, such customers prefer using the more efficient services offered by fintechs to visiting physical branches of conventional banks.
Although Nigerian conventional banks are “apparently not concerned” about this threat, the media report, however, quotes Guy Czartoryski, head of research at CMB, explaining why the findings of his bank’s study must be taken seriously. Using internet banks such as Kuda, Carbon and Rubies as examples of fintech services that pose a threat to banks, Czartoryski explained:
These banking platforms are attractive to millennials and other tech-literate customers a
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