The announcement was made at the Asian Banker Middle East and Africa Regional 2020 Awards virtual ceremony.
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Wigwe said this on Wednesday at the 13th Annual Banking and Finance Conference of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, at which there was a hybrid of both physical and virtual attendance.
Wigwe said this on Wednesday at the 13th Annual Banking and Finance Conference of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, at which there was a hybrid of both physical and virtual attendance.
In normal times, I would have jumped at an opportunity to celebrate Wigwe, who is certainly one of the biggest revelations in Nigeria’s banking industry in this century. When he took over the leadership of Access Bank, the Bank was no. 5. Today, that bank is No. 1 in terms of share capital, loans, deposits, reach and customer satisfaction.
The tier-II capital facility was structured as a “10 years non-call five years” subordinated debt instrument, benefitting the bank for a period of five years.
The private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 has donated more extraction kits and silicon swabs to the National Centre for Disease Control to increase the number of COVID-19 tests by 32,500 in the country.
One noble attribute of the average African is that he or she seeks opportunity to do good. The African man is his brother’s keeper. This finds strong expression in an Igbo adage: “Let no one leave his kindred behind.” Access Bank and its Group Managing Director, Herbert Wigwe, just did that as Nigeria and indeed the rest of the world buckle under the COVID-19 pandemic.
The aristocrats in the system must manage their appetite. To rebuild the wreckage of the post-COVID-19 world demands not only a containment of the virus, but fundamentally a containment of appetite
Access Bank Plc has launched a new mobile banking application, tagged: “AccessMore,” to ensure easy access to funds and seamless transactions by customers, amid COVID-19 lockdown.
President Muhammadu Buhari has saluted the public-spiritedness of wealthy Nigerians and organisations for standing up to be counted in the battle against the Coronavirus Disease pandemic.
Aliko Dangote and Herbert Wigwe are spearheading a coalition of private sector organisations to support the Federal Government’s ongoing efforts to tackle the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) menace sweeping across the country.
The bank’s audited result released by the Nigerian Stock Exchange showed that gross earnings was higher by 26.10 per cent when compared with N528.75 billion in the comparative period of 2018
Only in 2002, Access Bank was a small bank ranked 65th in the crowded hall of 89 banks in Nigeria. That was when Wigwe and his friend Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede acquired the bank
The event will feature industry experts such as Dr. Herbert Wigwe, CEO, Access Bank PLC; Yewande Sadiku, Executive Secretary/CEO, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission; and Dr. Olusegun Omisakin, Director of Research and Chief Economist, Nigerian Economic Summit Group, amongst others.
The bank offered the explanation in a memo signed by its Company Secretary, Sunday Ekwochi,
Arraignment of Herbert Wigwe, Group Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, and eight others charged with $6.3 million fraud, was on Thursday stalled due to absence of Wigwe and six others.
Access Bank Plc on Monday listed the N15 billion fully certified Green Bond on the FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange and the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Trading in the shares of Diamond Bank Plc has been placed on full suspension following the court sanction of the Scheme of Merger with Access Bank Plc.
Access Bank Plc said on Monday that a five-year Fixed Rate Senior Unsecured N15 billion Green Bond, the first climate bond to be issued in Africa, had been fully subscribed.
Access Bank Plc on Friday declared a profit after tax of N95 billion for the financial year ended December 31, 2018.