Sterling Bank (Nigeria)

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Sterling Bank Ltd.
Company type Limited Liability Company
IndustryBanking
Founded1960
Headquarters
Sterling Towers, 20 Marina, P.M.B. 12735, Lagos, Lagos State
,
Nigeria
Key people
₦ 107.96 billion (FY 2022)
Total assets ₦ 1.85 trillion (FY 2022)
Number of employees
>3,043 (FY 2022)
Parent Sterling Financial Holdings Company Plc.
Divisions 140 Business Offices, 632 ATMs (FY 2022)
Website https://sterling.ng/bank

Sterling Bank Ltd. [1] is a full-service national commercial bank licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. On Reuters and Bloomberg terminals, it is identified as STERLNB.LG and STERLNBA:NL respectively. [2] The Bank provides services to individuals, small businesses, and large corporations.

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As of December 2022, the Bank's branch network numbered 140, [3] distributed throughout Nigeria with total assets valued in excess of NGN 1.85 trillion). [3]

History

Sterling Bank originally incorporated in 1960 as Nigeria Acceptances Limited (NAL). The Bank was licensed as Nigeria's first merchant Bank in 1969. Consequent to the indigenisation decree of 1972, the Bank became fully government owned and was managed in partnership with Grindlays Bank Limited, Continental International Finance Company Illinois and American Express Bank Limited between 1974 and 1992. In 1992, the Bank was partly privatised and listed as a public company on the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE). Eight years later, in 2000, the Federal Government sold its residual interest in the Bank, effectively making it a fully privatised institution. [4]

In January 2006, as part of the consolidation of the Nigerian banking industry, NAL Bank completed a merger with four other Nigerian Banks namely, Magnum Trust Bank, NBM Bank, Trust Bank of Africa and Indo-Nigeria Merchant Bank (INMB) and adopted the name 'Sterling Bank'. [5] The merged entities were successfully integrated and have operated as a consolidated group ever since.

In line with the Central Bank of Nigeria's repeal of universal banking, Sterling Bank now operates as a national commercial bank, disposing of holdings in subsidiaries and affiliate companies. In mid-2011, Sterling Bank acquired the franchise of the erstwhile Equatorial Trust Bank. [6] Under a special resolution on September 19, 2022, Sterling Bank Plc transitioned to Sterling Bank Ltd, emerging as a subsidiary of Sterling Financial Holdings Company Plc. [7]

Current executives

Abubakar Suleiman is the current Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Bank Ltd, assuming this position on 19 September 2022. [8] [9]

S/NName of executiveTitle/designation
1Olatunji MayakiChairman
2 Abubakar Suleiman Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
3Raheem OwodeyiExecutive Director[16]
4Tunde AdeolaExecutive Director[16]
5Michael JitubohNon-Executive Director
6Olaitan KajeroNon-Executive Director
7Tairat TijaniNon-Executive Director
8Folasade KilasoNon-Executive Director
9Manish SinghalNon-Executive Director
10Ashutosh KumarNon-Executive Director
11Michael AjukwuIndependent Director
12Olusola OworuIndependent Director

Operations

Sterling Towers, 20 Marina, Lagos, Nigeria. Sterling Financial Holdings Company Plc HQ.jpg
Sterling Towers, 20 Marina, Lagos, Nigeria.

The Bank's operations and products are grouped into four clusters: Retail and Consumer Banking, Commercial Banking, Institutional Banking and Corporate Banking.

Sterling has launched several initiatives under the Retail & Consumer Banking such as Agent Banking (designed to attract the underbanked/unbanked), [10] Micro-credit for youths and Specta (an automated retail lending platform). Its Commercial Banking deals in several sectors including Agriculture [11] for which the bank has won several awards while its Institutional Banking offers value adding advisory & collection services for government parastatals. Sterling's Corporate Banking covers several sectors including Telecommunications, Power and Steel, Food and Beverages among others. [12]

The bank operates from:

Performance highlights

Sterling Bank delivered a set of results in 2022 as follows: [14]

The Bank carries out corporate social responsibility in these areas: education, the environment, health, empowerment, sports development, capacity building, among others. [17]

Awards

See also

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