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Nigeria’s Interswitch in talks with Equity Bank over DRC entry

By David Whitehouse

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Posted on July 7, 2023 04:00

© Customers are pictured on their motorcycle taxis outside the Equity Bank Kasarani branch in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya March 22, 2022. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi — Customers are pictured on their motorcycle taxis outside the Equity Bank Kasarani branch in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya March 22, 2022. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

Nigerian fintech Interswitch is in discussions with Kenya’s Equity Bank about following the lender into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), managing director Mitchell Elegbe tells The Africa Report.

Discussions about following the bank into the DRC are at an “early stage”, Elegbe says.

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