Fintech Lab
Lesson 31Issuing, lending, treasuryAdvanced
Float income
Your sponsor pays you interest on user money. That interest is revenue.

Your FBO account at the sponsor bank earns interest, paid monthly. On a ₦100,000 average daily balance at 6% APR, that's about ₦500/month of interest. THAT'S REAL MONEY. Most neobanks treat float income as the largest single line item after interchange. The accounting question: when the sponsor credits your FBO with float interest, where does it go? Three policies exist, for simplicity, this lesson takes the most common: you keep it all as platform revenue. Booking it correctly preserves your sum(user wallets) = FBO invariant after sweeping.

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