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Online Betting Firms Gamble on Soccer-mad Nigeria

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By Alexis Akwagyiram and Didi Akinyelure

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LAGOS, June 25 (Reuters) – Online sports betting wagering is booming in soccer-mad Nigeria mostly thanks to payment systems established by homegrown technology companies that are beginning to make online services more feasible.

For several years, mobile payments stopped working to remove in Nigeria as they have in nations such as Kenya, where Safaricom’s M-Pesa money transfers have promoted a culture of cashless payments.

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Fear of electronic scams and slow internet speeds have actually held Nigerian online consumers back however wagering firms says the brand-new, quick digital payment systems underpinning their sites are changing mindsets towards online deals.

“We have actually seen substantial growth in the variety of payment solutions that are available. All that is definitely altering the video gaming space,” stated Seun Anibaba, CEO of Lagos State Lotteries Board, gaming regulator in Nigeria’s commercial capital.

“The operators will go with whoever is much faster, whoever can connect to their platform with less issues and problems,” he stated, including that taxes from sports betting in Lagos State increased 30 percent to 40 percent in 2017 from 2016.

That development has been matched by a rise in web payments, according to data from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), which is owned by the reserve bank and licensed banks.

In 2016, there were 14 million web payments worth a total 132 billion naira ($420 million). Transactions leapt to 29 million worth 185 billion in 2017 and in the very first quarter of 2018 there were nearly 10 million worth 61 billion.

With a young population of nearly 190 million, increasing cellphone use and falling information costs, Nigeria has actually long been seen as an excellent chance for online companies – once customers feel comfy with electronic payments.

Online gaming companies state that is happening, though reaching the tens of countless Nigerians without access to banking services stays a difficulty for pure online merchants.

British online wagering firm Betway opened its first African business in Kenya in 2015, followed by Uganda, Ghana and South Africa. It introduced in Nigeria in January.

“There is a gradual shift to online now, that is where the market is going,” Betway’s Nigeria supervisor Lere Awokoya stated.

“The development in the number of fintechs, and the government as an enabler, has helped the organization to thrive. These technological shifts motivated Betway to start running in Nigeria,” he said.

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FINTECH COMPETITION

sports betting companies capitalizing the soccer craze worked up by Nigeria’s involvement worldwide Cup say they are finding the payment systems created by regional startups such as Paystack are showing popular online.

Paystack and another local startup Flutterwave, both founded in 2016, are offering competitors for Nigeria’s Interswitch which was established in 2002 and was the main platform utilized by businesses operating in Nigeria.

“We included Paystack as one of our payment choices without any fanfare, without revealing to our clients, and within a month it shot up to the number one most used payment option on the site,” stated Akin Alabi, founder of NairabBET.

He said NairaBET, the nation’s second most significant sports betting firm, now had 2 million routine customers on its site, up from 500,000 in 2013, and Paystack stayed the most popular payment option given that it was added in late 2017.

Paystack was set up by two Nigerian computer technology graduates, Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, who received early stage financing in Silicon Valley’s Y-Combinator .

In December 2016, it raised $1.3 million from financiers consisting of China’s Tencent and Comcast Ventures in the United States.

Paystack, based in the mad Ikeja district of Lagos, stated the variety of month-to-month deals it processed rose from about 8,000 in early 2016 to more than 900,000 as of June 2018.

“In early 2016 we were processing about $3,000 a month. Today we process well over $11 million every month,” stated Emmanuel Quartey, Paystack’s head of growth.

He stated a community of developers had actually emerged around Paystack, producing software to integrate the platform into sites. “We have actually seen a growth because community and they have actually carried us along,” said Quartey.

Paystack stated it makes it possible for payments for a number of sports betting companies however also a wide variety of organizations, from energy services to transport companies to insurance company Axa Mansard.

Flutterwave, co-founded by Nigerian business owner Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, is likewise backed by the Y-Combinator programme as well as investor Greycroft Partners and Green Visor Capital and the Omidyar Network. It raised $10 million last year.

FOREIGN INVESTMENT

Shifts in Nigeria’s payment culture have actually corresponded with the arrival of foreign financiers wishing to use sports betting wagering.

Industry experts say the sector produces about $1 billion a year and is most likely to grow faster than in South Africa and Kenya where the service is more established.

Russia’s 1XBet and Slovakia’s DOXXbet have actually both established in Nigeria in the last two years while Italy’s Goldbet was ahead of the pattern, taking a half stake in market leader Bet9ja when the Nigerian company launched in 2015.

NairaBET’s Alabi stated its sales were split between stores and online however the ease of electronic payments, expense of running stores and ability for consumers to prevent the preconception of sports betting in public indicated online transactions would grow.

But in spite of advances in digital payments, Kunle Soname – chairman and co-founder of Bet9ja – said it was essential to have a shop network, not least because lots of customers still remain hesitant to invest online.

He said the business, with about 60 percent of Nigeria’s sports betting wagering market, had an extensive network. Nigerian sports betting stores typically serve as social centers where clients can view soccer free of charge while placing bets.

At a BetKing hall deep inside the dynamic Oshodi market in Lagos, lots of soccer fans collected to view Nigeria’s last heat up game before the World Cup.

Richard Onuka, a factory employee who makes 25,000 naira a month, was focused on a TV screen inside. He stated he started gambling three months earlier and bets up to 1,000 naira a day.

“Since I have actually been playing I have not won anything but I believe that one day I will win,” said Onuka. ($1 = 314.5000 naira) (Reporting by Alexis Akwagyiram and Didi Akinyelure in Lagos; modifying by David Clarke)

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