“Can a member-owned staff cooperative deliver rewarding savings, loans and asset-acquisition services to its Nigerian members?”
Unified Payments Cooperative is a Nigerian staff cooperative society (not to be confused with Unified Payment Services Ltd, the Nigerian payments processor, or Unified Payments the US merchant processor acquired years ago). It offers members savings, loans, property acquisition and commodity sales — essentially a mutual-aid financial services body rather than an embedded finance platform. There is no public evidence of external fintech vendor relationships.
Unified Payments's lending and capital products are provided by Unified Payments Cooperative (in-house).
Unified Payments is founded in 2015 and headquartered in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.
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