Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO) has built-in Google Pay into its banking and cost providers, enabling GTBank prospects to make digital funds whereas companies utilizing its Squad cost gateway can settle for transactions by means of the platform.
The improvement coincides with the launch of Google Pay in Nigeria on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, inserting GTCO among the many monetary providers suppliers providing the cost service to prospects and retailers from its first day of availability within the nation.
Under the association, prospects of Guaranty Trust Bank Limited (GTBank) can add eligible debit playing cards to Google Wallet and use Google Pay for on-line transactions domestically and internationally wherever the service is accepted.
Similarly, companies utilizing Squad, the cost gateway operated by GTCO’s funds subsidiary, HabariPay, can settle for Google Pay at checkout alongside present choices, together with debit playing cards, financial institution transfers, USSD and different cost providers.
The Group Chief Executive Officer of GTCO, Segun Agbaje, stated the combination was designed to make digital transactions safer and simpler whereas serving to companies scale back deserted on-line purchases.
“Most failed online payments are not refused, they are abandoned. Somewhere along the way the customer gives up, and the business never learns about the sale it lost,” he stated.
Agbaje added that the group’s presence on each side of the transaction would allow prospects to pay conveniently whereas retailers profit from further cost choices.
He stated the combination demonstrated the advantages of GTCO’s construction, bringing its banking and cost companies collectively to enhance the digital transaction expertise.
For GTBank prospects, the service permits them to save lots of eligible debit playing cards in Google Wallet and full on-line purchases with out repeatedly getting into their card particulars.
Google Pay makes use of a safe digital token in place of the particular card quantity, serving to defend delicate cost info throughout transactions. Customers can use the service for eligible on-line purchases, together with journey bookings, meals supply, subscriptions, payments and digital providers.
For retailers, Google Pay is enabled by default on the Squad cost gateway, though companies can select to deactivate the choice.
The Managing Director of HabariPay, Eduofon Japhet, stated the combination would simplify checkout for companies by permitting prospects to pay utilizing playing cards already saved in Google Wallet.
She added that retailers configured to obtain worldwide funds might settle for Google Pay transactions from prospects worldwide with out further integration.
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