The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday reported that total transactions value since the migration of the Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) accounts to the Treasury Single Account (TSA) in 2016 stood at N13.5 trillion.
This is even as it noted that the monetary policy initiative also led to positive growth in the value and volume of transactions recorded in end to end payments in 2017.
These hints were given in the apex bank’s ‘2017 Annual Activity Report’ hosted by its Banking and Payments System Department on its website.
The report attributed the growth to the rise in the number of MDAs accounts migrated to the TSA.
A further analysis of the report reflected that the value of transactions recorded at the period reviewed stood at N13.53 trillion from the N10.65 trillion in 2016, representing an increase of 27.01 percent.
In addition, the apex bank stated further that volume of transaction grew with an increase of 3.84 per cent to record 39.7 million in 2017 as against the 38.24 million recorded in 2016.
According to the CBN, the payment instructions comprise recurrent, overhead and capital expenditure.
On efforts made by the monetary authorities on the TSA implementation, the bank stated that during the year, stakeholders’ engagements were organised to improve the operations and address some of the challenges facing it.
It clarified further: “In order to engender healthy competition and ensure effective service delivery, the Federal Government’s TSA payment gateway model was modified to accommodate other service providers.
“The aggregator model was developed to bring in more players into the e-collection process, thereby providing a level playing ground for all the Payments Service Providers (PSPs), with NIBSS as the aggregator.
“The initiative was driven by the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) with the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) as the implementing agency, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria”, CBN added.
