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PSV 2028: Deepening Financial Access, Expanding Payments

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  • Nigeria has launched its Payments System Vision 2028 (PSV 2028) to boost financial inclusion and modernize its payment ecosystem.
  • The vision aims to achieve 95% financial inclusion, bring 15 million Nigerians into the formal system, and enhance payment security.
  • Key challenges identified include affordability, accessibility, execution, collaboration, and trust, despite Nigeria's existing fintech innovations.

Nigeria's Central Bank has unveiled the Payments System Vision 2028 (PSV 2028), a strategic blueprint designed to significantly expand financial inclusion and elevate the nation's payment systems. This initiative aims to bring 95% of Nigerians into the formal financial system, onboard an additional 15 million individuals, deepen payment penetration, and bolster trust and security within the ecosystem.

Despite Nigeria's reputation for a dynamic fintech sector and innovative real-time payment infrastructure, millions remain unbanked, and electronic fraud continues to pose a threat. PSV 2028 seeks to address these persistent challenges, positioning Nigeria as a leading force in continental and global digital finance.

The vision represented a sweeping reform targeting 95 percent financial inclusion, and 'faster-than-a-blink' transaction speeds.

— Olayemi CardosoCentral Bank Governor Olayemi Cardoso describing the ambitious goals of the Payments System Vision 2028.

Central Bank Governor Olayemi Cardoso emphasized that payment systems are critical economic infrastructure, likening them to 'invisible roads' that facilitate transactions, savings, and trade. He stressed that the vision's success hinges not just on technological advancement but crucially on affordability, accessibility, effective execution, robust collaboration, and sustained trust among users and providers.

The vision connects enhanced payment infrastructure directly to poverty reduction. By broadening access to financial services and reducing dependence on cash, more Nigerians can engage in economic activities, access credit, and participate securely in formal commerce. Cardoso highlighted the ambition for near-universal financial inclusion and drastically reduced fraud losses, underscoring the importance of measurable impact as the benchmark for success, learning from past policy implementation failures.

Payment systems have become critical economic infrastructure... just as physical infrastructure drives commerce, digital payment infrastructure now underpins productivity, trade, investment and economic growth.

— Olayemi CardosoCardoso framing the importance of digital payment infrastructure for Nigeria's economic development.
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