Digital finance is a type of financial service that employs digital products like personal computers, the internet, mobile phones, cards linked to a digital payment system. Innovations in the digital world cannot be divorced from Nigerian financial services most notably the banking sector. Therefore, it means that banking industry cannot but embrace digital innovations in their services delivery. Hence, there is a need to review the impact of digital finance in the Nigerian banking sector. Desk research method was used to examine how innovations in the digital world could impact the future financial service delivery in the Nigerian banking sector. From the review, it was that the digital world is quickly changing and this impacts banking in all ramification. It is recommended that the banking industry should try to keep pace with the digital innovations, for them to be able to meet up the demands of their digitally-savvy customers.

The poor performance of female entrepreneurs, exemplified in their inability to realize their full potential and compete fairly with their male counterparts owing to financial illiteracy, motivated this study. Therefore, this study examined the effect of financial literacy on business performance among female micro-entrepreneurs. Using the survey research design, data were collected from 247 female entrepreneurs from six states in the North-Eastern region of Nigeria. The hypotheses developed for the study were tested using path modeling-structural equation modeling with the aid of SmartPLS software version 3.2.7. The result revealed that all proxies of financial literacy (financial education, cash forecasting, and bookkeeping have significant effects on business performance of female entrepreneurs. Additionally, the paper revealed that financial education contributed more to the variance in business performance of the female micro-entrepreneurs, this was followed by bookkeeping practices, while cash-forecasting has the least effect on the variance in business performance. This implies that financial education is essential for the success of female micro-entrepreneurs. Thus, this study advocates the need for continuing trainings and workshops for female micro-entrepreneurs on financial concepts such as bookkeeping, cash forecasting, and market volatilities.

Mission, values, vision and objectives are considered essential in strategic planning and management activities of any organization, in that they function together to determine its strategic direction. The objective of this study is to identify, classify and analyse core value statements of financial institutions quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Based on simple random sampling and in line with the Godden (2004)’s sample size formula, a sample of 38 was selected out of a population of 52 financial institutions. The selected financial institutions have 209 core value statements, which were classified into seven value dimensions: commitment to customers, commitment to stakeholders, commitment to employees, commitment to diversity, commitment to integrity, entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility. Using both content and descriptive analyses, the study found that commitment to integrity (33.97%) and commitment to customers (23.92%) are two most popular out of the seven value dimensions. However, commitment to employees constitutes as low as 1.44% of the value dimensions. It is therefore recommended that financial institutions in Nigeria should increase their commitment to employees and practically institutionalize and integrate their core values in the heart of the employees rather than making it a mere statement in black and white

This study investigates growth effects of foreign direct investment and financial deepening in Nigeria for the period 1981-2018. Data employed for this study were obtained from Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin and World Development Indicators. Pairwise granger causality test and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model were employed in the data analysis. Empirical results show that foreign direct investment (FDI) has positive significant effect on economic growth (GDP) in Nigeria both in the long and short runs. Financial deepening measured as broad money supply as a ratio of GDP (broad money velocity) has positive significant effect on GDP in Nigeria in the long run but the position is reversed to negative non-significant in the short run. In the long run, financial deepening indicator-credit to private sector as a ratio of GDP-, has negative non-significant effect on GDP in Nigeria while its influence is absent in the short run model. Findings also reveal a unidirectional causality from FDI to GDP. Likewise, unidirectional causality flows from GDP to each of the two financial deepening indicators, thus lending credence to the demand-following hypothesis. This study concludes that foreign direct investment and financial deepening have positive growth effects in Nigeria with causality flowing from foreign direct investment to economic growth and the latter granger-causing financial deepening in Nigeria. To boost economic growth, there is a need for Nigeria’s government to further develop the financial system and implement policies to stimulate FDI inflows to the country.

AbstractsThe paper investigates the impact of exchange rate volatility pass-through on price inflation in Nigeria. Annualised timeseries data ranging from 1981 to 2015 was used and due to adjustment and generation of data for other variables from the sourced data, the paper used 30 years annualised data for its M. O., Babarinde G. F., Lawan M. W. / Journal of Management, Economics, and Industrial Organization, Vol.2 No.3, 2018, pp.18-40. 19 and the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) should continue to take inflation targeting in the long-term as part of its monetary policy regime. The CBN should start given attention to the trade openness and foreign direct investment in managing the inflation. This paper discredits the public opinion that exchange rate volatility warranted inflation in the short-run. The paper investigates the impact of exchange rate volatility on inflation in Nigeria.