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Financial inclusion return

A regulatory return listed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria.

Reports the number of financially excluded customers a Payment Service Bank has onboarded during the quarter, reflecting the PSB licence's financial-inclusion mandate. Source

Official title: Quarterly Returns on Financially Excluded Customers

The facts

Who files
Every Payment Service Bank (PSB) licensed under the Guidelines for Licensing and Regulation of Payment Service Banks in Nigeria. Source
How often
Quarterly. Source
Deadline
Not stated on the pages read. Source
Format
Other. Format not stated on the pages read. The Guideline also allows the CBN to require other returns, in such format and frequency as it may prescribe. Source
Status
In force
Group
Conduct

Templates (0)

The library lists no templates for this return.

No standard form was found on the pages read. Source

Validation rules

No published validation rules were found for this return. No published validation rules for this return were found on the Central Bank of Nigeria's pages read. Source

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No publicly available data from this return was found on the pages read. Source

Official documents (2)

The CBN's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 13 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

Knowing exactly what is collected, in what format and under which rules is the first step to real-time supervision. Line4 builds SupTech software for financial regulators that runs checks like these as each return arrives.

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Source: Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), https://www.cbn.gov.ng. Documents are linked on the regulator's own site, not hosted here. The plain-English summaries are Line4's own; the CBN does not endorse this library.

Last checked 13 November 2026.