PiggyVest, Opay, Others React As Customers Panic Over NIBSS Directive To Remove Payment Service Providers

Mobile Money Operators (MM0s) and Financial Technology firms have reacted to the new directives from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) for banks to remove Payment Solution Service Providers (PSSPs), Switches and Super Agents from its outward transfer list.

THE WHISTLER reported that NIBSS in a circular with reference number, NIBSS/BD/NUP0/005/051723, directed banks to disconnect PSSPs, Switching Companies (Switches) and Super Agents from NIBSS Instant Payment (NIP) Outwards System.