GTCO integrates Google Pay into GTBank, Squad – Daily Trust

Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO) has built-in Google Pay into its banking and fee companies, enabling GTBank clients to make digital funds whereas companies utilizing its Squad fee gateway can settle for transactions by way of the platform.

The growth coincides with the launch of Google Pay in Nigeria on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, inserting GTCO among the many monetary companies suppliers providing the fee 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 regionally and internationally wherever the service is accepted.

Similarly, companies utilizing Squad, the fee 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 fee companies.

The Group Chief Executive Officer of GTCO, Segun Agbaje, stated the mixing was designed to make digital transactions safer and simpler whereas serving to companies cut 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 clients to pay conveniently whereas retailers profit from further fee choices.

He stated the mixing demonstrated the advantages of GTCO’s construction, bringing its banking and fee companies collectively to enhance the digital transaction expertise.

For GTBank clients, the service permits them to save lots of eligible debit playing cards in Google Wallet and full on-line purchases with out repeatedly coming into their card particulars.

Google Pay makes use of a safe digital token in place of the particular card quantity, serving to defend delicate fee info 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 fee gateway, though companies can select to deactivate the choice.

The Managing Director of HabariPay, Eduofon Japhet, stated the mixing 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 further integration.