By Ngozi Nwoke
In line with its policy to simplifying financial transactions and deepening financial inclusion across the country, financial services platform, Opay, has partnered with Africa’s leading payment cards and digital tokens brand; Verve, to launch the Opay Instant Debit Card.
Speaking at the launch of the Instant Card Initiative which took place in Lagos, President, Opay Nigeria, Mr Olu Akanmu, disclosed that with the introduction of the Opay Instant Debit Card will be easily available at the company’s stores, “The platform will continue to deepen financial inclusion in Nigeria, striving to ensure that every Nigerian no matter theri social or geographic situation or location can access formal financial services, open an instant debit card at an agent store.
“The platform is leveraging its key asset of the most extensive agency distribution network in Nigeria to ensure that every Nigerian can open an account and get a debit card instantly to transact with the account anytime and anywhere.
“With over 500,000 agents pan-Nigeria, we will leverage our agent network for the issuance and distribution of the instant debit cards. The instant debit card will be directly linked to users’ wallets thereby making it easy and convenient to make payments for goods and services.
“All our users can now pay for goods and services directly from their wallets with the new Instant debit Card, anywhere Verve is accepted such as POS terminals, ATMs, supermarkets, restaurants, fuel stations and online stores. “The design of the Instant Debit Card initiative is appealing and resonates with the Nigerian market as instant cardholders will enjoy zero ATM withdrawal fees and zero card maintenance fees. Also, potential users can apply for the card without BVN and receive it within one minute at the Opay agent locations nationwide.