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How Access Bank UK Polo Cup supports UNICEF, Nigeria

This year’s Access Bank Polo Day, held at the prestigious Guards Polo Club, was one of the prominent initiatives sponsored by the private banking arm of The Access Bank UK in its drive to aid educational and social development in…

Access Bank gives antidotes on ending high interest rates charged by banks

Managing Director of leading Tier I money deposit group, Access Bank Plc, Mr. Herbert Wigwe has opened up on factors fueling the observed rise in lending interest rates amongst Nigerian banks. Wigwe, who spoke at the seventh German-Nigerian Business Forum…

Wigwe, Access Bank boss at forum, restates commitments to growing SMEs

Access Bank has restated its commitments in assisting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to achieve their business development goals. This was made public by the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Herbert Wigwe, while speaking at the seventh German-Nigerian Business Forum…

Ghanaian warns central bank against squeezing indigenous banks to extinction

A leading columnist in Ghana, Mr. Samuel Nii Narku Dowuona has written an open letter to the Governor of Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Ernest Addison, warning of the multiplier effects of hiked recapitalization regime of banks in Ghana. BoG…

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Access Bank deepens technology driven services with ‘PayAttitude Digital’

Riding on the star performance of ‘PayWithCapture’, launched few years ago, Access Bank Plc has joined forced with PayAttitude and Unified Payments to invent another payment solution christened ‘PayAttitude Digital’. The solution is designed to allow Access Bank merchants/customers to…

CBN, banks’, in aggressive financial inclusion drive with 500,000 agent networks

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has sealed a partnership understanding to collaborate with banks and Mobile Money Operators (MMOs) to deepen Financial Inclusion in Nigeria. Business Hilights gathered Wednesday that already, about 10 MNOs and super agents will, any…

Why Access Bank bagged Euromoney’s Best Commercial Banking Capabilities award

Facts have come up as to why leading financial institution, Access Bank Plc won the ‘Best Commercial Banking Capabilities’ award by Euromoney, a global financial publication. Euromoney in its recently released results of the annual Private Banking and Wealth Management…

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…

Access Bank unveils 2018 – 2022 Group Strategy Plan at NSE

L – r: Bola Adeeko, Head, Corporate Services Division, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Oscar N. Onyema, OON, Chief Executive Officer, NSE; Herbert Wigwe, Group Managing Director, Access Bank Plc and Roosevelt Ogbonna, Group Deputy General Manager Director, Access Bank…