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Build on Moniepoint’s current differentiation and strengths
Build products that give high revenue and margins
Drive customer stickiness
Enable seamless customer acquisition
How we will achieve these business needs
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Build on Moniepoint’s current differentiation and strengths
Product-led vertical focus
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As a fintech we will build technical solutions that deeply solve needs of clients within each industry vertical
Build product around Moniepoint’s strength in payments and collections
Build solutions that build on our ability to access USD
Focus on servicing the entire supply chain in an industry, to allow:
Moniepoint to retain deposits within our system (which are the cheapest form of capital, and enable more lending)
A large proportion of payments to be internal (which reduces costs and instability of payments to third parties)
Lending, where we have data on the entire supply chain (to minimise losses)
Build ERP solutions. This
integratesdrives stickiness by integrating Moniepoint with a client’s workflow, automates tasks for the client, and reduces theft
Enable growth by seamless customer acquisition
Build products optimised for the specific requirements of that industry, to make the value of the product high for other clients in that industry
Focus on building for the entire supply chain, to make the value of the product high for other clients in the same supply chain
Use our access to USD to bring client’s better pricing for USD-based products
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Build products that give high revenue and margins, and penetrate industries upwards
Build solutions that give us access to USD
This will allow us to offer USD products to our clients at competitive pricing
Build solutions that increase revenues for our clients
The highest value pain point to solve for almost every company, is increasing revenues. If we provide clients with the ability to do this, we will win business and rapidly grow by default
The quickest way to do this, which aligns with our strengths, is to allow instant payouts for incentives to sales staff
Prioritisation criteria
We have prioritised industries based on the following criteria:
Collections in NGN
Collections in USD
Complexity of collections
Ability to help clients increase revenues
Methodology
We have gathered data to assess the prioritisation against the above criteria. The data is from:
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Stripping out lending, we can see the size of industries from a collections standpoint below. The greatest volume of payments today is led by the same four categories, with the addition of IT/Electronics.
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External data - size and growth of industries
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In 2022, Nigeria exported a total of $70.7B, making it the number 51 exporter in the world (OEC).
During the last five reported years the exports of Nigeria have increased from $49.7B in 2017 to $70.7B in 2022.
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Crude Petroleum: $52.1bn
Petroleum Gas: $9.0bn
Nitrogenous Fertilizers: $2.0bn
Refined Petroleum: $1.0bn
Gold: $0.8bn
Special Purpose Ships: $0.6bn (note: related to Oil & Gas industry)
Cocoa Beans: $0.5bn
The most common destination for the exports of Nigeria are:
Spain: $9.4bn
India: $8.2bn
France: $5.0bn
United States: $4.8bn
Netherlands: $4.2bn
External data - remittances
Inbound remittances to Nigeria in 2021 had a total volume of $19.5bn (World Bank).
This is by a distance the largest in sub-saharan Africa, accounting for 35% of the total volume.
Data-driven prioritisation
Industry | NGN collections | Top30** accounts % | Industry size | Industry growth (real) | Exports |
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Top 3 focus verticals | |||||
Retail & General Trade | 798m (1st) | 38% | N27.4tn | 1.7% | - |
Remittances distribution | - | - | N31.9tn | -2.9% | $19.5bn |
Oil & Gas | 166m (3rd) | 45% | Downstream & midstream unknown | Downstream & midstream unknown | Downstream & midstream N/A |
Expand up the supply chain into these industries | |||||
Food & Drinks | 401m (2nd) | 34% | N13.9tn* | 3.0% | $0.9bn |
IT & Electronics | 121m (4th) | 26% | N25.5tn | 8.9% | $0.1bn |
Healthcare | 66m (9th) | 29% | N1.0tn* | 6.4% | - |
Separate, later focuses | |||||
Construction | 56m (10th) | 18% | N22.0tn | 3.6% | $0.1bn (construction materials) |
Travel & Leisure | 74m (8th) | 37% | N4.9tn | -15.0% (4.0% if exclude road travel) | - |
*this number is for manufacturing only. Moniepoint data includes distributors and retailers, so industry number for comparison is likely higher
**by profitability
Rationale for top 3 prioritisation choices
Retail & general trade
This is the industry providing the largest number of transactions for Moniepoint today, and the largest industry in Nigeria outside of crop production.
It is a growing industry, and contains a high percentage of Top30 profitable accounts today, relative to other industries serviced by Moniepoint.
The retail & general trade industry allow Moniepoint to build products to incentivise sales staff on a daily basis, which will allow clients to materially increase revenue.
Retail & general trade is a broad industry category, and allows focus on servicing distributors in sub-sectors. Suggestions:
IT & Electronics
Supermarkets
Pharmacies
Each of these allow subsequent expansion upwards into the supply chain for these industries.
For each of these, the industry is large, growing fast in real terms, and Moniepoint has strong presence in.
Remittances distribution
If inbound remittances were considered as an industry in their own right, they would be the second largest in Nigeria today after crop production.
Moniepoint, through their existing infrastructure to instantly settle payments across the whole of Nigeria, have a natural competitive advantage. Servicing our own retail offering and providing rails to existing remittance companies such as Wise, Remitly and World Remit will provide penetration into a market contributing $19.5bn of USD flow annually.
This will allow Moniepoint to create products that have a competitive advantage relative to others in the domestic Nigerian market.
Oil & Gas
Oil & Gas distribution is the third largest by number of transactions for Moniepoint today, and is the industry with the largest percentage of profitable accounts.
Moniepoint has good penetration, can build a market-leading ERP solution solving real pain points, and work our way up into midstream and upstream which is the 6th largest industry in Nigeria.
Agriculture is the largest industry in Nigeria- why is it not included?
Most of agriculture is subsistence. Only an estimated 5% of agriculture is mechanised industry. In addition, only 15% of current Moniepoint merchants are top 30% by profitability.