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APPZONE acquires switching license from the CBN

NM Partners by NM Partners
May 19, 2022
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Co-Founder and CEO of AppZone, Obi Emetarom

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AppZone, Sub-Saharan Africa’s payment infrastructure company, announced that the Central Bank of Nigeria has issued the organization an approval in principle to operate under the Switching and Processing license category. This will enable AppZone further expand its transaction switching and processing services currently offered to banks and fintech’s through its blockchain-based payment network, ZONE, launched in December 2021.

ZONE is the first private blockchain payment network that enables the direct flow of payments from bank to bank while empowering previously excluded financial institutions to participate. It has been adopted by over 16 commercial banks and payment service banks in Nigeria and will further expand to other financial institutions, Fintechs and commercial banks across Africa.

Speaking about the license issuance, Co-Founder and CEO of AppZone, Obi Emetarom, said, “We are excited about the issuance of the Switching license. We look forward to the progress it will enable for the payment and finance ecosystem.

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As a payment infrastructure company, we believe that this milestone will enable us to connect every financial store of value within Nigeria and link them to the rest of the world.”

With this new milestone, AppZone can now operate on the same level as other tier-one financial technology and private switching companies. The Switching license will enable the company directly to engage and collaborate with crucial payment system stakeholders such as the Nigeria Central Switch hosted by NIBSS and the various Card Payment Schemes.

About Appzone

Founded in 2008, Appzone Africa’s no.1 Fintech Software Engineering firm has evolved into a payment infrastructure company. Our Layer-1 Blockchain network digitizes Fiat payments and enables the transition to digital currencies while connecting previously excluded financial institutions into an all-inclusive payment ecosystem. In December of 2021, Appzone launched ZONE, Africa’s first decentralized payment network. ZONE allows participating institutions to connect directly with each other and perform payment transactions without an intermediary while completely automating settlement, reconciliation, and dispute management. We are working with the brightest minds on the continent to digitize and completely automate financial services. Our Vision is for digital payments and Decentralized Finance to replace cash and traditional Banking in Africa.


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  1. Shalamoor says:
    May 19, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    AppZone is a powerful solution that can solve the diasporic challenge of access to capital. As an American National with Nigerian DNA, this is very promising for business connections between Nigeria, the rest of Africa and the Americas.

    As so-called [b]lacks, we MUST build our own global financial house. We are obviously not very welcome in the other financial house.

    Finally, connecting ZONE with the African Kingdom LUMI and the Eco6 Region would expedite commerce across the diaspora, which is the richest, most promising emerging market on Earth.

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  2. Adah Egahi says:
    May 22, 2022 at 10:12 am

    Will this work? I was made to understand that all switching was meant to pass through Nigerian Central Switch?

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