Access Bank Group

Access Bank Group
Company typePrivate
NGX: ACCESS
ISINNGACCESS0005
IndustryFinancial services
Founded1989 (1989)
HeadquartersVictoria Island, Lagos
Lagos State, Nigeria
Key people
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede
group chairman
Bolaji Agbede
Acting Group Managing Director & Acting group CEO
ProductsBanks, Mortgages Investments
Total assetsUS $22.419 billion
(NGN: 36.5 trillion) (30 June 2024)
Number of employees
28,121+ (2021)
Websitewww.accessbankplc.com

Access Bank Group is a financial services conglomerate, headquartered in Nigeria, with subsidiaries in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, The Gambia, Guinea, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Malta, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, France and the United Kingdom. The group also maintains representative offices in China, India, Lebanon and United Arab Emirates.

In May 2023, the bank group opened an operational banking subsidiary in Paris, France. It is reported that the French subsidiary will first focus on funding trade finance between France and francophone Africa, before opening subsidiaries in French-speaking Africa. As of July 2021, the group serviced in excess of 42 million customers in Africa. After the merger of Access Bank Plc. and Diamond Bank on 1 April 2019, Access Bank Plc is now Africa’s largest bank by customer base, and the largest bank in Nigeria by assets.