Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO) has built-in Google Pay into its banking and cost companies, enabling GTBank clients 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, putting GTCO among the many monetary companies suppliers providing the cost service to clients and retailers from its first day of availability within the nation.
Under the association, clients 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 companies.
The Group Chief Executive Officer of GTCO, Segun Agbaje, mentioned 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 mentioned.
Agbaje added that the group’s presence on either side of the transaction would allow clients to pay conveniently whereas retailers profit from extra cost choices.
He mentioned the combination demonstrated the advantages of GTCO’s construction, bringing its banking and cost companies collectively to enhance the digital transaction expertise.
For GTBank clients, the service permits them to avoid wasting 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 data throughout transactions. Customers can use the service for eligible on-line purchases, together with journey bookings, meals supply, subscriptions, payments and digital companies.
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, mentioned the combination would simplify checkout for companies by permitting clients 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 clients worldwide with out extra integration.
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