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Becoming an intelligent bank today no more an option but necessity—Access Bank chief

Managing Director and Chief Executive of Access Bank Plc., Mr Herbert Wigwe, Thursday opened up at the 2019 Disrupt Summit, a mixed gathering of technology pioneers and start-ups, saying “Becoming an intelligent bank today is not an option but a…

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Start-ups entries hit 10,000 ahead of AFF’s Disrupt 2019 summit in Lagos

The Executive Director, Operations and IT, Access Bank Plc, Mr. Ade Bajomo, Tuesday revealed that the target of 5,000 start-ups entries for the 2019 Disrupt conference of the Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF) planned for Landmark Centre in Victoria Island on…

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…

Team C-Stell Wins as Access Bank, AFF sponsor Nigeria’s Largest Hackathon

Team Cosmos Constellation (C-Stell) has emerged winners in the //Re:Code Nigeria Hackathon 2018 themed “Data Hack” which was sponsored by Access Bank Plc in partnership with Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF). The team was part of the 115 multiple teams of…

Access Bank, Africa Fintech Foundry set to hold ‘Code Nigeria Hackathon 2018’

Relying on the success of the first edition of its Fintech conference, AFF Disrupt 2017, Access Bank and Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF) have reached advanced stage in planning the hosting of Code Nigeria Hackathon 2018 known as AFF Disrupt 2018….

Access Bank partner Dangote, others to drive Fintech disruption in Nigeria

L-R: Knut Ulvmoen, Group Executive Director, Herbert Wigwe, Group Managing Director/CEO, Access Bank Plc; Mosun Belo-Olusoga, Board Chairman, Access Bank Plc; Joseph Makoju, Honorary Adviser to the President/CE, Dangote Group, and Victor Etuokwu, Executive Director, Personal Banking, Access Bank at…

Why Access Bank is promoting Fintechs disruptions in banking

Clear explanatory details emerged on Thursday in Lagos at the first edition of the Access Bank driven Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF) Conference where experts and the bank rolled out gains of emerging disruptions powered by financial technologies (Fintechs) in traditional…

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Dangote disrupting business models to remain atop industrial revolution

The President of Dangote group and Africa’s most influential business mogul, Aliko Dangote, in Lagos on Thursday revealed one of his innovative business development strategies, saying “Dangote is always disrupting ageing business models so as to continue to dominate industrial…