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Online Betting Firms Gamble on Soccer-mad Nigeria<\/b><\/p>\n

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By Alexis Akwagyiram and Didi Akinyelure<\/p>\n

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LAGOS, June 25 (Reuters) – Online sports betting<\/a> wagering is in soccer-mad Nigeria largely thanks to payment systems established by homegrown innovation firms that are beginning to make online organizations more viable.<\/p>\n

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For several years, mobile payments stopped working to remove in Nigeria as they have in countries such as Kenya, where Safaricom’s M-Pesa cash transfers have cultivated a culture of cashless payments.<\/p>\n

Fear of electronic fraud and sluggish internet speeds have held Nigerian online consumers back however sports betting<\/a> firms states the new, quick digital payment systems underpinning their sites are changing mindsets towards online deals.<\/p>\n

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“We have actually seen considerable growth in the variety of payment solutions that are readily available. All that is definitely changing the gaming space,” said Seun Anibaba, CEO of Lagos State Lotteries Board, video gaming regulator in Nigeria’s industrial capital.<\/p>\n

“The operators will opt for whoever is much faster, whoever can link to their platform with less issues and problems,” he stated, adding that taxes from sports betting<\/a> in Lagos State rose 30 percent to 40 percent in 2017 from 2016.<\/p>\n

That development has been matched by an increase in web payments, according to data from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), which is owned by the main bank<\/a> and licensed banks.<\/p>\n

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 almost 10 million worth 61 billion.<\/p>\n

With a young population of almost 190 million, rising mobile phone use and falling data costs, Nigeria has actually long been seen as a terrific chance<\/a> for online companies – once customers feel comfy with electronic payments.<\/p>\n

Online gaming firms say that is happening, though reaching the tens of countless Nigerians without access to banking services stays a difficulty for pure online sellers.<\/p>\n

British online sports betting<\/a> firm Betway opened its very first African company in Kenya in 2015, followed by Uganda, Ghana and South Africa. It released in Nigeria in January.<\/p>\n

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“There is a progressive shift to online now, that is where the market is going,” Betway’s Nigeria supervisor Lere Awokoya stated.<\/p>\n

“The growth in the number of fintechs, and the federal government as an enabler, has helped business to grow. These technological shifts encouraged Betway to start running in Nigeria,” he said.<\/p>\n

FINTECH COMPETITION<\/p>\n

sports betting<\/a> firms capitalizing the soccer frenzy whipped up by Nigeria’s involvement<\/a> in the World Cup state they are finding the payment systems produced<\/a> by local startups such as Paystack are showing popular online.<\/p>\n

Paystack and another local start-up Flutterwave, both founded in 2016, are offering competition for Nigeria’s Interswitch which was established in 2002 and was the main platform utilized by businesses running in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

“We added Paystack as one of our payment options without any fanfare, without announcing to our customers, and within a month it shot up to the number one most secondhand payment option on the website,” said Akin Alabi, founder of NairabBET.<\/p>\n

He said NairaBET, the nation’s second greatest wagering firm, now had 2 million regular clients on its site, up from 500,000 in 2013, and Paystack remained the most popular payment alternative since it was added in late 2017.<\/p>\n

Paystack was set up by 2 Nigerian computer technology graduates, Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, who got early phase funding in Silicon Valley’s Y-Combinator programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In December 2016, it raised $1.3 million from financiers consisting<\/a> of China’s Tencent and Comcast Ventures in the United States.<\/p>\n

Paystack, based in the mad Ikeja district of Lagos, said the number of monthly deals<\/a> it processed rose from about 8,000 in early 2016 to more than 900,000 as of June 2018.<\/p>\n

“In early 2016 we were processing about $3,000 a month. Today we process well over $11 million every single month,” said Emmanuel Quartey, Paystack’s head of development.<\/p>\n

He stated an ecosystem of developers had actually emerged around Paystack, producing software to incorporate the platform into websites. “We have actually seen a growth in that community and they have actually brought us along,” stated Quartey.<\/p>\n

Paystack said it allows payments for a number of sports betting<\/a> companies but also a large range of businesses, from energy services to transport business to insurer Axa Mansard.<\/p>\n

Flutterwave, co-founded by Nigerian business owner Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, is also backed by the Y-Combinator program along with investor Greycroft Partners and Green Visor Capital and the Omidyar Network. It raised $10 million in 2015.<\/p>\n

FOREIGN INVESTMENT<\/p>\n

Shifts in Nigeria’s payment culture have actually accompanied the arrival of foreign investors wanting to tap into sports betting<\/a> wagering.<\/p>\n

Industry professionals say the sector generates about $1 billion a year and is most likely to grow faster than in South Africa and Kenya where business is more established.<\/p>\n

Russia’s 1XBet and Slovakia’s DOXXbet have both established in Nigeria in the last 2 years while Italy’s Goldbet led the trend, taking a half stake in market leader Bet9ja when the Nigerian company launched in 2015.<\/p>\n

NairaBET’s Alabi stated its sales were divided<\/a> in between shops and online but the ease of electronic<\/a> payments, cost of running stores and capability for clients to avoid the preconception of gaming in public meant online transactions would grow.<\/p>\n

But in spite of advances in digital payments, Kunle Soname – chairman and co-founder of Bet9ja – stated it was necessary to have a store network, not least because many clients still stay hesitant to spend online.<\/p>\n

He said the business, with about 60 percent of Nigeria’s sports betting<\/a> market, had an extensive network. Nigerian sports betting<\/a> stores typically serve as social hubs where consumers can view soccer complimentary of charge while placing bets.<\/p>\n

At a BetKing hall deep inside the dynamic Oshodi market in Lagos, lots of soccer fans collected to enjoy Nigeria’s final warm up video game before the World Cup.<\/p>\n

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Richard Onuka, a factory employee<\/a> who makes 25,000 naira a month, was fixated on a television screen inside. He stated he began sports betting<\/a> three months earlier and bets approximately 1,000 naira a day.<\/p>\n

“Since I have actually been playing I have not won anything but I think that one day I will win,” stated Onuka. ($1 = 314.5000 naira) (Reporting by Alexis Akwagyiram<\/a> and Didi Akinyelure in Lagos; editing by David Clarke)<\/p>\n

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