Thirteen Nigerian banks have been named in the list of 1000 top lenders across the world.
According to The Banker magazine of the Financial Times Group in its 2014 report on banks released on Sunday 6 July, the Nigerian banks attained this feat for the second year in a row.
The Country Representative of The Banker Magazine, Kunle Ogedengbe, listed the 13 banks that made the ranking, which according to him, is based on Tier-1 capital, as Zenith Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, First Bank, Access Bank, United Bank for Africa, Fidelity Bank and Ecobank Nigeria.
Others are: Skye Bank, First City Monument Bank, Diamond Bank, Stanbic IBTC Holdings, Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria and Union Bank of Nigeria.
Zenith Bank MD, Peter Amangbo
Zenith Bank MD, Peter Amangbo
Zenith Bank was ranked top in Nigeria at 293 position while Guaranty Trust Bank was placed 415. First Bank and Access Bank were ranked 424 and 532 respectively. UBA was listed at 539 and Fidelity, occupied 622 position.
The Banker said the profit on capital of three Nigerian banks that are not foreign-owned subsidiaries increased. First Bank’s profit on capital increased to 25.32 per cent from 25.13 per cent, Access Bank, from 21.19 per cent to 21.24 per cent and First City Monument Bank, 15.77 per cent from 15.07 per cent.
The magazine said the share number of local banks that made the ranking “underlines Nigeria’s number one position in Africa, as no other African country had up to 13 banks in the Top 1,000 World Banks”.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/07/07/13-nigerian-banks-among-worlds-1000/

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1st 1000..wtf
Some banks here wicked sha...u go use atm card for less than 6 months, dem go starrt dey tell u 'card not smart' ...gt i hail oo

I hope all the banks will take this serious and improve on the service render......................