“Can a small Nigerian microfinance bank become the digital financial hub for MSMEs and the financially underserved by owning the license and building both a consumer wallet and a merchant acquiring stack?”
Digitvant is a Nigerian microfinance bank founded in 2024 operating under a CBN microfinance license as Digitvant Microfinance Bank Limited. Its consumer-facing product DigitvantPay offers digital banking, savings, cards and MSME microloans, while VantPay Merchants Portal extends the business into merchant acquiring, agency banking and settlements. As a licensed microfinance bank, most of the stack is self-operated rather than assembled on third-party BaaS.
DigitvantPay discloses Digitvant Microfinance Bank Limited (in-house) as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
DigitvantPay does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Digitvant Microfinance Bank Limited (in-house).
DigitvantPay processes payments through DigitvantPay (self-operated) and VantPay Merchants Portal (self-operated).
DigitvantPay's cards run on Visa and Mastercard.
DigitvantPay's lending and capital products are provided by Digitvant Microfinance Bank Limited (in-house).
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 4 layers in DigitvantPay's stack: Payments / PSP (DigitvantPay (self-operated) and VantPay Merchants Portal (self-operated)); Banking / BaaS (Digitvant Microfinance Bank Limited (in-house)); Card network (Visa and Mastercard); Lending (Digitvant Microfinance Bank Limited (in-house), MSME Working Capital Loans (₦50k–₦5M), Equipment Financing (₦100k–₦10M), Low Interest Loans (consumer) and 1 other).
DigitvantPay is founded in 2024 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
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