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Access Bank targets N15bn Green Bond rare Cross-Listing on NSE-LuxSE deal

Industry followers’ and news outfits had been saturated in the last few days following Access Bank’s proposed listing of its N15Bn Green Bond on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE). Otherwise, there has created some excitement in the fixed income market….

(Special Report) Wigwe, Access Bank and leadership in banking sector

By Ray Umukoro Access Bank is currently among the top five banks in Nigeria and was in 2015 ranked as one of the top 500 banks in the world by The Banker Magazine. But it was not always so. Analysts…

Access Bank completes upgrade, fetes customers with free instant transfers

For their patience and understanding throughout the period of its technology and infrastructure upgrade and seamless systems integration, leading retail banking giant and largest financial institution in Africa, Access Bank is offering its customers, free instant transfers for a whole…

Access Bank a Bank with a rigorous, disciplined capital plan—Wigwe

The Group Managing Director/CEO of Africa’s largest bank, Access Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe, has revealed that his institution remains a Bank with a rigorous and disciplined capital plan. In his remarks on the successful outing of the bank on issuing…

Access Bank, GE Healthcare team up to finance Nigerian healthcare providers

Leading largest financial institution in Africa and Nigeria in particular, Access Bank and GE Healthcare are to provide sustainable healthcare equipment financing to private healthcare providers; the partnership will help the private healthcare providers to deliver access to affordable healthcare…

Access Bank wins 2019 GBA Women’s Market Champion Impact Award

Innovative banking giant and largest financial institution in Africa by branch network, Access Bank Plc. has won the 2019 GBA Women’s Market Champion Impact Award for its efforts towards providing opportunities for women. The award, put together by the Global…

Merger, acquisition fevers engulf banking sector following CBN’s hint

Though the current largest bank in the continent by virtue of branch networks, Access Bank, has hurriedly denied any form of talks either with the management or shareholders of Union Bank relating to either merger or acquisition, industry analysts say…

Access Bank, AFF release programme of event on 2019 summit

Ten days from today and precisely May 16, 2019, the Africa FinTech Foundry (AFF) innovators summit, will create an ecosystem in Lagos where digital services inventors will interface with industry captains to design a roadmap for the nation’s march to…

Strategy, good governance delivered performance for Access Bank—Chairman

The Chairman, Access Bank Plc, Mrs Mosun Belo-Olusoga has made revelations on how the bank scaled through the observable unfavourable market condition to deliver a strong performance driven by effective strategy and strong governance. Addressing shareholders at the bank’s recent…

Access Bank flags off dual listing of N15bn corporate green bond on Exchange

Emerged largest financial giant in Nigeria, Access Bank Plc., Monday announced the dual-listing of a fully certified Green Bond on the FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange and the Nigerian Stock Exchange. This follows the formal approval of the bond by the…