Credit In Nigeria Research Articles

Commercial Banks and Real Sector Credit: A Comparative Study of Pre and Post Consolidation Reforms in Nigeria

This study examined the effect of banking sector reforms on real sector credit in Nigeria. Panel data were sourced from Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin and financial statement of the commercial banks in the pre consolidation and post consolidation reforms. Multiple regression models were formulated to examined and compare the effect of post consolidation reforms on demand side financial intermediation. Nine commercial banks that bear the same name in the pre and post consolidation reforms were used as sample size. Real sector credit was proxies for dependent variables while capital reforms, interest rate reforms, Central bank policy reforms, bank competition, management quality, assets quality, market risk and liquidity reforms were proxies for independent variables. The study employed panel data regression models of pooled effect, fixed effect and random effect models. After cross examination of the models using the Hausman test, the fixed effect models were used. The study found that 53.4 percent of the systematic variation in the real sector credit in the pre consolidation reforms and market risk has positive and significant effect on real sector credit while management quality, bank liquidity reforms and assets quality have negative effect on real sector credit in the pre consolidation reforms. The estimated model found that 78.1 percent of the systematic variation in the real sector credit in the post consolidation reforms while bank liquidity have negative and no significant effect on real sector credit while management quality, market risk and assets quality have positive effect on real sector credit in the post consolidation reforms. The study concludes that post consolidation reforms have significant effect on real sector credit. The study recommended that the Central Bank of Nigeria should continue with its banking sector reforms such as increase capital base as this can encourage substantial credit allocation to the prior

Driving private sector credit in Nigeria: The role of growth finance

There is some level of uncertainty as to whether private sector credit interacts with finance sources for growth to significantly influence channeling funds for investible purposes in Nigeria, given the nation’s unique characteristics. This study examines the role of various sources of growth finance on private sector credit in Nigeria. For this purpose, the study utilizes secondary data (1980–2018) sourced from CBN statistical annual reports. The study further employs the ARDL-Bounds Co-integration test to test out the hypothesis after stationarity testing. The study finds that stock market capitalization had a positive and significant influence on private sector credit compared to remittance inflows and gross domestic savings in the long run among the sources of growth finance indicators. Furthermore, remittance inflows reported a positive but statistically insignificant relationship, while gross domestic savings had a negative and insignificant coefficient. The study concludes that only stock market development inflow transmits to the private sector’s credit at 10 percent among the various growth finance sources.

The Impact of Selected Monetary Policy Instruments on Nigerian Banking Industry Credit to the Private Sector, 1981-2021

This study examined the impact of selected monetary policy instruments on credit to the private sector in Nigeria. The study applied an auto-regressive distributed lag model (ARDL) for analysis of the data covering the period of 1981 to 2021. Data for the study were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) statistical bulletin. The objectives of the study were to: analyze the impact of monetary policy rate on credit to the private sector in Nigeria, examine the impact of liquidity ratio on the private sector credit in Nigeria. Liquidity ratio (LIQ) had a positive but statistically non-significant impact on credit to the private sector. Monetary policy rate (MPR) had a negative but statistically non-significant impact on credit to the private sector. The study recommends that the government needs to benchmark best practices in monetary policy development from those economies that are more advanced in order to develop better monetary control policies that can improve the performance of the banking industry for rapid economic growth and development.

Impact of Treasury Bill on Private Sector Credit in Nigeria

In this study, the effect of treasury bills on private sector credit in Nigeria using annual data from 1981 to 2018 was examined. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the impact of treasury bills and treasury bill rate on private credit. Treasury bills was disaggregated into its various components and used as explanatory variables along with other essential macroeconomic variables. The study was conducted in the light of the crowding out effect hypothesis. The behavior of variables was captured in an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. The result of the estimated model shows that treasury bills held by commercial banks, treasury bills held by the public and treasury bill rate has significant negative effect on credit to private sector, showing that treasury bills have a crowding out effect on private sector credit. It is recommended that treasury bill rate should be set to align with other rate of return on short term financial asset in the financial system to allow for fair competition between public sector and private sector debt instrument and thus limit the crowding out effect and that the issuing of treasury bills should be justified with the existence of excess liquidity in the financial system.

Government Domestic Borrowing and Private Credit in Nigeria: Testing the Lazy Bank Hypothesis

This study investigates the effect of government public domestic borrowing on credit to the private sector in applying the lazy bank model in Nigeria. The study utilises the Central Bank of Nigeria data covering the period between 1980 and 2019 and deploys the Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model for analysis. The study results show that domestic government borrowing has the most dominant effect on credit to the private sector in a negative and significant impact. Also, the effect of interest rate and inflation are negative and significant on the credit to the private sector. However, the effect of real GDP on credit to the private sector is minimal and positive. The strong negative effect of domestic government borrowing confirms the application of the lazy bank hypothesis in Nigeria. In addition, the negative effect of interest rate suggests that the crowding-out hypothesis applies in Nigeria. Therefore, the study recommends that the government reduces borrowing from the banking sector and implement coordinated macroeconomic policies to minimise the adverse fluctuations in interest rate and inflation while taking concrete steps to ensure that more credit is available to the private sector. Keywords: Government Domestic Borrowing, Credit to the Private Sector, Domestic Financial Markets, Lazy Banks, Crowding Out. JEL Codes: E52, H63, G21 DOI: 10.7176/JESD/13-7-07 Publication date: April 30 th 2022

Shocks to Monetary Policy Instruments: Does Credit to the Private Sector Respond in a Similar Manner to Public Sector Credit in Nigeria? A Vector Autoregressive Approach

This paper aims to investigate the response of private and public sector credit to shocks in monetary policy instruments with a view to ascertaining if the responses differ. The study utilized the vector autoregressive (VAR) model with monthly data covering the period from 2010M1 to 2021M8. Findings show that credit to private sector responds positively to shocks in money supply and monetary policy rate (MPR) in all periods. However, the response to cash reserve requirement (CRR) was negative beginning from period five, and it also responded negatively to foreign interest rate shock. On the other hand, credit to government was found to respond positively to shocks in money supply up to period two and CRR in all the periods, but it responded negatively to MPR starting from period three. The results of the variance decomposition show that other than shocks to itself, which was 100% in the first period, shocks to other variables influence private sector credit. Also, other than shocks to itself, which was 99.89% in the first period, shocks to other variables lead to shocks to credit to government. We therefore recommend that policies used to influence financial intermediation should factor in the sensitivity of both public and private sectors to these policy instruments and the impact of exogenous shocks should be factored into policy formulation.

Impact of Agriculture on Bank Credits in Nigeria: An Econometric Analysis

In most developing countries, agriculture is both the main sector that provides employment to large segments of the population and the key to sustained economic growth of the countries like Nigeria. This study presents an empirical analysis of the Impact of Agriculture on Bank Credit in Nigeria.. Also, highlighted are the problems of agricultural production in Nigeria and the strategies for agricultural transformation of the economy. Our findings revealed that agricultural variables have impact on food industries in Nigeria. Consequently, the macro-econometric model in this study contributes to the development of policy and programming by shedding light on the choice to be made and indicating the magnitude and direction of responses that can be expected from changes in key agricultural policy. It is a known fact that the efficiency of credit facility positively contributes to production base of a sector, especially the Nigerian agricultural sector which is recognised as the heartbeat of the economy by employing over 70% of the country’s labour force; this forms the motivation for this study. This study also deals with the potentials of agricultural output in terms of commercial bank loan to agriculture and agricultural credit scheme as well as their corresponding interest rates to farmers towards increasing agricultural production as the pathway to food industries in Nigeria. The study employed the Autoregressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) econometric approach on the time series data sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) statistical bulletin, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Development Indicators (WDI) for the period 1998-2018. The result from ARDL showed that commercial banks loan and Agricultural Credit Scheme increased food industries and agricultural output by 8.12% and 0.002% respectively, while population reduces Agricultural Output by 0.001%. Keywords : Agriculture, Bank Credits, Nigeria DOI: 10.7176/JESD/12-12-13 Publication date: June 30 th 2021

Impact of Monetary Policy on Bank Credit in Nigeria

Objective – The aim of this study is to examine the impact of monetary policy on credit creation ability of banks in Nigeria. Specifically, it investigates the impact of monetary policy rate, money supply, liquidity ratio, and change in maximum lending rate on bank credit in Nigeria. Design/methodology – A monthly time series data from 2007-2019 were sourced from the Central Bank’s of Nigeria statistical bulletin. The sourced data was subjected to multiple regression analysis using the fully modified ordinary least square regression to estimate the parameters of the model. Results – Findings reveal that money supply significantly and positively influence bank credit in Nigeria; while liquidity ratio significantly but negatively influence bank credit in Nigeria. On the contrary, monetary policy rate and maximum lending rate were found not to significantly affect bank credit in the case of Nigeria.Policy Recommendation - Study therefore, recommend that monetary authorities especially, the Central Bank of Nigeria should pay more attention to lowering the liquidity ratio while increasing money supply in order to engender banks credit creation ability and further stimulate the Nigerian economy for growth.

Sectorial Output Growth and Commercial Bank Credit Nexus in Nigeria

This study investigates the nexus between sectorial output growth and commercial bank credit in Nigeria. Sectorial output growth was broken down into three different proxies which include production sector, Commercial sector and Service sector contribution to gross domestic product while bank credit to production sector, general commerce and service sector served as the independent variables which are used to proxy commercial bank credit. The study made use of secondary data obtained from Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical bulletin for the period 1981 to 2019. It employed Descriptive Statistics, Phillips-Perron (PP) Unit Root Test, Simple Regression Analysis and Granger Causality Test. The Granger Causality result showed that bi-directional causality is identified in the three models while there were positive and significant relationship between bank credit to production sector, general commerce, service sector and production sector contribution to gross domestic product, general commerce sector contribution to gross domestic product and service sector contribution to gross domestic product respectively. The paper therefore recommends that the regulatory authorities should prioritize more on increasing and easing the requirements needed from deficit spenders to secure credit from commercial banks in Nigeria.

Government Domestic Borrowing and Private Sector Credit Crowding out: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria

The impact of government domestic borrowing on the private sector credit has been a subject of great interest to researchers in finance. This study looked at the impact of government domestic borrowing on private sector credit in Nigeria. Government domestic borrowing can affect the private sector by crowding out private sector credit directly or indirectly through rising interest rates. The study employed an ex-post research methodology. Secondary data was collected from the Debt Management Office Nigeria and the Central Bank of Nigeria. The study covered a 10-year period from 2009 to 2018. An OLS multiple regression model was used. Government domestic borrowing was proxied by federal government bond issuances as the dependent variable. The deposit money banks’ prime lending rates, private sector lending by the banks, the bank’s investment in treasury bills and government bonds were the independent variables. The data was tested for heteroscedasticity, stationarity, normality, multicollinearity and serial correlation to examine the robustness of the model. The results showed that prime lending rate has a positive effect on government bond issuance although not significant. The findings also indicated that there is a negative relationship between government domestic bond issuance and the banks credit to private sector. However, this relationship is not statistically significant implying that government borrowing may not have crowded-out private sector. The relationship between government bond issuances and bank investment in treasury bills and government bond is negative although not significant. The findings of this study suggest that government domestic borrowing in Nigeria may have resulted in the reduction of private credit and this works through the credit channel and the interest rate channel.

A Tale of Two Markets: How Lower-end Borrowers Are Punished for Bank Regulatory Failures in Nigeria

In 2009, the Nigerian banking system witnessed a financial crisis caused by elite borrowers in the financial market. Regulatory response to the Nigerian crisis closely mirrored the international response with increased capital and liquidity thresholds for commercial banks. While the rise of consumer protection on the agenda of prudential supervisors internationally was logical in that consumer debt was the main cause of the global recession, the Nigerian banking reforms of 2009 disproportionately affected access by poorer consumers, who ironically had little to do with the underlying causes of the crisis. As lending criteria become more stringent, poorer consumers of credit products are pushed into informal markets because of liquidity-induced credit rationing. Overall, consumer protection is compromised because stronger consumer protection rules for the formal sector benefits borrowers from formal institutions who constitute the minority of borrowers in all markets. While the passage of regulation establishing credit bureaux and the National Collateral Registry will, in theory, ease access to credit especially by lower-end borrowers, the vast size of the informal market continues to compound the information asymmetry problem, fiscal policies to tackle structural economic issues such as unemployment and illiteracy remain to be initiated, and bank regulators continue to pander to elite customers with policy responses that endorse too big to fail but deems lower-end consumers too irrelevant to save. The essay concluded that addressing the wide disparity in access to credit between the rich and poor through property rights reforms to capture the capital of the informal class, promoting regulation to check loan concentration, and stimulating competition by allowing Telecommunication Companies (TELCOs) and fintech companies to carry on lending activities because of their superior knowledge of lower-end markets will facilitate greater access. The risk of systemic failure deriving from consumer credit in Nigeria is insignificant compared to the consumer vulnerabilities resulting from the exposure of consumers to unregulated products in the informal market.

The Impact of Financial Crisis on Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Access to Credit in Nigeria

The Impact of Financial Crisis on Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Access to Credit in Nigeria

Credit sources, access and factors influencing credit demand among rural livestock farmers in Nigeria

PurposeRural farmers’ access to farm credit in Nigeria has been very low, which affects farm performance, and credit providers have blamed for the problem in the sector. While this general perception persists the fact may be the case of credit demand, rather than just the risk-averse attitudes of credit providers. The purpose of this paper is to investigate significant factors influencing farmers’ credit demand to ensure efficient credit provision.Design/methodology/approachThe research adopted mixed methods for an in-depth investigation into the problem. There were 216 research participants split into equal halves of men and women from six local government areas of Nasarawa State. Data collection methods employed structured interviews, focus group discussions, close/open-ended and key informant interviews. Analytical tools involved descriptive statistics, the logit and multinomial logit models to determine participants’ socio-economic characteristics, sources of credit, access, factors influencing credit demand generally and from the various sources of credit identified.FindingsFindings reveal only 47.6 per cent of the participants accessed credit, with fewer women accessing than men. The most accessed forms of credit are from the semi-formal sources, with more men accessing from formal sources and more women from non-formal sources. Factors having significant influence on credit demand generally are education, group membership and household size. And from formal, semi-formal and non-formal credit sources are education, information on sources of credit, deposits, household size and marital status; education, deposits, group membership, household size, flock size; and education, group membership, and gender from the non-formal credit providers, respectively.Research limitations/implicationsDue to time constraint, this study data were collected concurrently with both quantitative and qualitative methods and did not allow for the interrogation of findings from one method with the other. In addition, the research categorised the agency of women based on marital status only as single or married and did not interrogate the agency of women further, this may be a limitation as some of the female participants are from polygamous homes.Originality/valueUnlike the current concentration of Nigerian research of this kind with quantitative methods alone, this research contributes particularly to Nigerian research output and experience by triangulating both quantitative and qualitative methods to explore farmers sources of credit, access and factors determining access to credit in the study area.

Impact of Financial Sector Reforms on Farmers Access to Agricultural Credit in Nigeria, 1981 - 2016

Impact of Financial Sector Reforms on Farmers Access to Agricultural Credit in Nigeria, 1981 - 2016

The Impact of Financial Crisis on Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Access to Credit in Nigeria

In every economy of the world, the impact of the SME is not taken for granted as for all healthy economy, there must be a healthy SME due to the fact that, their contribution to the production volumes in terms of exports, innovations and the entrepreneur skills is vital for every economy to grow. There is a reasonable level of agreement among policy makers, theorists, economists, and business experts that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are drivers of economic growth. SMEs’ access to credit has been a serious subject of debates to policy makers and researchers of both developed and developing economies based on the pivotal and significant role of SMEs’ in growing the private sector as well as the global economies as an extension to the nations. Hence, there is a need to examine the bank lending capacities to the SMEs’ in Nigeria and its effects on the Nigerian business environment, the impact of financial crisis in Nigeria on SMEs’ access to bank credit, in addition, to determine the impact of SMEs’ on the Nigerian economy. The study employed the use of secondary source of data in the relevant literatures and data generated from the Central Bank of Nigeria Bulletin, 2016 on Credit Accessibility to the SME sector in Nigeria from the year 1992-2015. An econometric analysis was used specifically regression analysis. The result confirmed that Bank lending capacity as one of the factors of financial crisis does affect the SMEs access to credit, and there is a strong and positive relationship between the SMEAC, Foreign Direct Investment, Interest Rate and Inflation while there is a strong and negative relationship between the SMEAC, GDP Total, CBTC and the Money Supplied. However, there is a weak relationship between the SMEAC and the SMEGDP and CBLSME. The result indicates that, as the Interest Rate and Inflation continue to increase it has a negative influence on the SMEs access to credit through the commercial banks. It is recommended to the Nigerian government that, economic policies that would favour the establishment of more SMEs with access to flexible credit facilities be made. In addition, the government needs to improve on the commercial bank lending capacities to the SMEs as this when positively managed will positively influence the contribution of the SMEs GDP Keywords : Financial Crisis, credit Accessibility, small and medium enterprises DOI : 10.7176/RJFA/10-1-05

Remittances, Bank Concentration and Credit Availability in Nigeria

The concentration of the Nigerian financial sector has long been recognised to be an important factor affecting the financial stability and welfare at an individual level in the economy. While various studies have been conducted to examine the sensitivity of this phenomenon to macro economy, little has been done to examine the effect of concentration on credit availability in Nigeria. In addition, no study has investigated the role of remittances on the relationship between bank concentration and availability of credit. Taking motivation from the Nigerian banking consolidation exercise, this article examined the effect of remittances and bank concentration on availability of credit in Nigeria. The author employed the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound test approach for co-integration on Nigerian data for the period of 1986–2015. The results revealed that bank concentration constrains the development of financial sector in Nigeria and remittances improve the level of financial development (credit availability) in the long run but inhibit the availability of credit in the short run. The negative relationship occurs in the short run because of the regulatory framework governing international money transfers in Nigeria, which simply inhibits competition. In the long run, recipients who have received remittances from informal settings would need financial products and services in which those remittances would be banked and further improve the financial sector. It was concluded that since Nigerian financial sector remained underdeveloped, the sector could be driven by encouraging inflow of remittances into the country. Our findings also persist after batteries of robustness check.

The Use of Land as a Collateral Security for Credit in Nigeria: Problems & Challenges

The Use of Land as a Collateral Security for Credit in Nigeria: Problems & Challenges

Reformed Secured Transactions Regulation in Nigeria: An 'Endowment Effect' Justification for Its Self-Help Repossession and Disposition Provision.

In 2015, Nigeria joined the league of countries that have reformed their secured transactions regime, with the enactment of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Regulation No. 1, 2015. This reform introduces a new wave of changes to the way by which personal property will be used in the future for the purpose of securing credit in Nigeria. Amongst other things, the Regulation provides a reconceptualization of personal property securities as conceptualized under English law to a functional system, such as that of UCC Article 9. More specifically, it introduces in some measure, self-help repossession and disposition as a means by which secured lenders may realize their security interests in the event that the debtor defaults in the repayment of the credit facility extended to the debtor.In this paper, I shall examine, from the viewpoint of behavioral law and economics (BLE), arguments that supports the case for the use of self-help repossession as provided for in the Regulation.

Swimming in Tested Waters: Increasing Access to Credit in Nigeria Through a Reform of its Secured Transactions Law with Some Recipes of UCC Article 9

It is the view of many scholars that robust economic development of a country is heavily dependent on the sufficient availability of credit in the economy. Doing business leads to jobs-creation and poverty reduction – but that can only happen if sufficient credit is made available to both business and non-business entities. However, lenders of credit are in business and should obtain some form of security, of which proprietary (in rem) security plays a key role. An internet registry which displays all security interests and encumbrances in personal property, thereby providing notice to the public regarding a particular secured transaction is highly recommended for Nigeria. In addition, all personal property should be admissible as collateral, coupled with creditors’ self-help right to repossess and sell them in the event of default. The Nigerian legal framework on secured transactions is compartmentalized and insufficient to tackle today’s commercial realities, but UCC Article 9 which has so far escaped attention of lawmakers in Nigeria may offer a number of recipes for Nigeria’s secured transactions law reform.

Basel Accord, post-consolidation growth in bank capital, cash reserves, deposit liability and volatility in bank credit in Nigeria

The introduction of the Basel I Accord the world over has affected capital base of banks with spiral effects on bank cash reserves, demand deposits and bank credit of DMBs. GARCH results using post-consolidation data (implemented to meet Basel I requirements) of these variables shows high negative volatility in BDP, BCAP, CRS and BCRDT indicating that identified variables experienced high volatility during the post-consolidation period. The Pearson and Kendall’s tau_b correlation coefficients results show that growth in banks’ capital in Nigeria during the period improved bank liquidity but not post-consolidation bank credit; volatility in cash reserve ratio and cash reserve values did not affect growth of bank credit; aggressive deposit drive by the banks improved available loan able funds, impacting on bank credit; necessitating the implementation of Basel II, II.5 and III and initiation of composite monetary policies to improve soundness in DMBs in Nigeria.