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| L-R: Chief Executive Officer, Interswitch Group, Akeem Lawal; Founder and CEO, OnePipe, Ope Adeoye; Executive Director/Chief Operations and Information Officer, Fidelity Bank Plc, Stanley Amuchie; Divisional Head, Fintech and Telecoms, Fidelity Bank Plc, Nwanja Onyekwere; and Founder/CEO, Capricorn Digital Limited, Degbola Abudu at the official launch of PayGatePlus by Fidelity Bank and OnePipe in Lagos on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. |
Working with OnePipe as an innovation partner, Fidelity has
evolved PayGate into PayGatePlus, a comprehensive embedded finance platform
that empowers organizations in any sector to integrate financial services
within their businesses and offerings. PayGatePlus’ services now include
virtual accounts, web payments, online collections via NIBSS Instant Payment
(NIP), funds transfer, direct debit, balance inquiry, statement, BVN
validation, direct credit and Buy Now, Pay Later services.
Ope Adeoye, CEO and Founder of OnePipe said the Company is
excited to be partnering once again with Fidelity to upgrade the payment
gateway. He commented, “Our core at OnePipe is to help businesses and partners
achieve maximum operational excellence, deeper customer intimacy, and
ultimately revenue growth.
These and more are the opportunities our partnership with
Fidelity enables. PayGatePlus essentially provides merchants with the rails to
deliver diverse financial services to their customers across a range of
platforms viz; website, mobile app, social media and even in-store (in the case
of retail outlets)”
Mr. Stanley Amuche, Executive Director and Chief Operations
and Information Officer of Fidelity Bank, said on behalf of the Fidelity Bank
MD, “Innovation is the key pillar of our strategic framework and we are constantly
looking for new ways to improve our services and delight our customers.
Everything we do as a financial organization including the design of our
products and services has the customer as the main focus.
It is on this basis that we have worked with our technical
partner, Onepipe, over the past few months to innovate a solution that enables
businesses across different sectors to easily integrate financial services with
their product offerings. The new PayGateplus is a significant upgrade of the
legacy PayGate product and we’re very optimistic that it will open more
opportunities for revenue growth for our customers.”
PayGatePlus helps take away the hassles of irreconcilable
payments, reporting, and settlement. Since its soft launch about a year ago,
several brands across FMCG, Aviation, Agency banking, and fintech sectors have
embedded a range of the services available on the platform.
OnePipe has remained committed to providing embedded finance
to Nigerian businesses and has since gone on to partner with about seven
financial institutions in Nigeria, and has also made it possible for
non-financial institutions like Omnibiz, Grow trade, and Winich Farms to launch
and cross-sell a range of financial services like credits, accounts, and
payments within their offerings