By James Emejo
A total volume of 3,464,811,083 transactions worth N356.47 trillion was recorded on electronic payment channels in the fourth quarter of 2020 (Q4 2020), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), stated yesterday.
Also, banking sector’s non-performing loan portfolio increased by 15.69 per cent to N1.23 trillion with gross loans of about N20.48 trillion in Q4 compared to N1.17 trillion and gross loans of N19.46 trillion in Q3.
According to the ‘Selected Banking Sector Data: Sectorial Breakdown of Credit, e-Payment Channels and Staff Strength (Q4 2020)’ report, posted on the NBS website, online transfers dominated the volume of transactions with over 2.23 billion deals valued at N120.27 trillion in the review period.
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This is 2.5 percent higher than credit disbursed to the private sector in Q3 2020.
According to the report titled, ‘Selected Banking Sector Data: Sectorial Breakdown of Credit, ePayment Channels and Staff Strength (Q4 2020)’, released on Sunday, NBS noted that the oil and gas sector received the highest credit allocation of N3.93 trillion followed by N3.19 trillion received by the manufacturing sector.
This represents 19.3 and 15.7 percent increase respectively when compared to the third quarter of 2020 (Q3).
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“In terms of credit to the private sector, the total value of credit allocated by the bank stood at N20.37trn as of Q4 2020,” the report said.
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This is according to data made available by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
According to the report, “Selected Banking Sector Data: Sectorial Breakdown of Credit, e-Payment Channels and Staff Strength”, total volume of 2,781,526,188 transactions were carried out through electronic payment channels in Q3 2020 compared to 2,160,436,659 transactions in Q2 2020.
It said real time gross settlement (RTGS), an on-line payment system in which processing and settlement take without deferral, dominated the volume of transactions recorded with 1,799,199 transactions valued at N116.06 trillion in the third quarter.
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NBS also said the number of workers of deposit money banks (DMBs) rose by 1.47 percent from 94,498 in Q2 2020 to 95,888 in Q3 2020.