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Afreximbank’s Payment Solution To Save Traders $5Bn
The African Export-Import Bank has created a payment solution platform, the Pan-African Payment and Settlement…
Rouble Firms Past 52 Against Dollar For First Time Since May 2015
The rouble rallied past 52 against the dollar to a more than a seven-year high on Tuesday as capital controls.…
Aeromexico Shareholders Back Mexico Stock Exchange Exit In Bankruptcy…
Aeromexico said on Tuesday that a majority of its shareholders approved a proposal to exit the main Mexican stock…
UBA Rewards Customers With N16.6m In Promo
Africa’s Global Bank, the United Bank for Africa Plc, has rewarded its loyal customers in its UBA Super Savers…
Wema Bank Launches Innovation Challenge For Kids
Wema Bank Plc has unveiled its Kids’ innovation challenge aimed at encouraging children. This, however, It teaches…
Banks Rally After Stress Test, Bank of America Underperforms
Shares in the biggest U.S. banks rallied after they passed the Federal Reserve's annual health check; but Bank of…
Wema Bank Stock Gains 340% In 6 Months
The NGX Banking index is designed to provide an investable benchmark to capture the performance of the banking…
Central Bank Of Nigeria To Spend $1.7Billion To Clear FX Backlogs By September-IMF
The World Bank has stated that Nigeria’s external reserves expect to decline. As a result, the Central Bank of…
States To Lose N19bn In Oil, Gas Revenues In 2022 – World Bank.
The World Bank has said that Nigerian states will likely lose N18.8bn in oil and gas revenues in 2022. As…
FG, World Bank, AFD To Spend $575m On Rural Roads
The Federal Government has signed a tripartite agreement with the World Bank and the French Development Agency.…
Wema Bank Assures Customers Of Data Confidentiality- Nigeria.
Wema Bank has said that it will ensure data confidentiality of its customers.The bank said, “We implore members of…
CBN Raises Online Transfer Limit To N25 Million And N250million For Individuals…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has raised the limit for ‘Highly Secured Online Funds Transfer'. This begins…
Bitcoin On Its Way To $32,000 As On-Chain Data Suggests Net Accumulation
Cryptocurrency bulls took over the market on Monday, with Bitcoin leading the charge, fighting its way through the…
Russia-Ukraine: Nigerian banks not under any major risk, says S & P
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict will have no major negative impact on the overall operations and assets…
CBN increases currency in circulation by N418bn over cash transactions
THE currency in circulation rose by N418bn from N2.91tn in December, 2020, to N3.33tn in December, 2021,…
Micro Finance Institution Advised To Renew License For Smooth Business
Micro Finance institutions have been asked to acquire the 2022 operational licenses to enable them to work…
Digital Payment Has Overtaken Use Of Cheques – CBK
Growth in usage of cheques has slowed down in the last decade, losing out to digital payments channels which are…
Persisting Inflation Will Limit CBN Borrowing Ability- IMF
Economists at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have revealed that persisting inflationary pressure…
Consensus Builds Up On Kicking Russia Out Of SWIFT
Canada, the United States, Britain and the European Union on Friday said they could act to exclude Russia from the…
Nigeria sues JP Morgan in London over $1.7b oil deal
A London high court began to hear a lawsuit yesterday launched by Nigeria against United States bank JP Morgan…
Fidelity Bank Restates Support For CBN FX Repatriation Push, Sensitizes Customers…
Fidelity Bank Plc a leading Nigerian bank has reaffirmed its commitment to actively support the CBN efforts to…
Banks Loan To Private Sector Surged By N5.58 Trillion In 2021
Banks credit to the private sector hit its highest level in December 2021, reaching N35.73 trillion from N30.15…
Bankers In Nigeria May Declare Assets As Senate Moves To Amend 35-Year-Old BEDA…
The senate on Tuesday considered a bill seeking to amend the 35-year-old Bank Employees Declaration of Assets…
FirstBank Felicitates With Junior Achievement Nigeria On Nobel Peace Prize…
In recognition of the giant strides and efforts by Junior Achievement Worldwide – the parent body of Junior…
CBN to stop forex sale to banks by December targets $200bn non-oil exports
The Central Bank of Nigeria has revealed that it will stop the sale of foreign exchange to Deposit Money Banks by…
We Will Tell Them Don’t Come To Central Bank For Foreign Exchange Again: CBN To…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has indicated that it would discontinue the sale of foreign exchange to Deposit…
Big Banks Seen Swallowing Smaller Loss-Making Rivals
Ratings agency Moody’s says small Kenyan banks suffering losses or facing insolvency are likely to become…
Jaiz Bank Posts N4.21bn Profit In 2021
Jaiz Bank Plc has released its unaudited financial results for the period ended December 31, 2021. The results as…
GTCO Acquires Investment One’s Pension, Funds Management Subsidiaries
Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc says it has completed the acquisition of 100% shareholding in two subsidiaries…
SoftBank hit as profit, and Arm deal, collapse
SoftBank Group Corp reported a 97% drop in quarterly profit and the collapse of a deal worth up to $80 billion to…