Following its divestment from its own pension business, Access Holdings Plc, the parent company of Access Bank Plc has announced plans to acquire a majority equity stake in First Guarantee Pension Limited.
The Group, according to a disclosure filed with the exchange (NGX), has entered into an agreement with the company regarding the potential acquisition of a majority equity stake in the company.
This transaction is pivotal in the Group’s plan to evolve from a narrow banking business to a financial service holding company positioned to gain relevant scale across Africa, global monetary centres and “beyond-banking verticals”.
What the CEO is saying
Speaking on the transaction, Group CEO of Access Corporation, Dr. Herbert Wigwe said, “This transaction is a natural evolution for us. Over the last 20 years, we set our sights on and delivered ambitious plans to transform the African financial services landscape focusing on banking and have created the African leading bank and largest bank by customer base.
“This large customer base both on the wholesale and retail segments makes the pension business a natural fit for the corporation given its objective of ecosystem optimization.”
“We will leverage our well-established culture of strong corporate governance, risk management, cutting-edge technology, and digital capabilities to deliver high standards of professionalism in the management of pension assets to the benefit of our stakeholders,” he added.
The notice said the National Pension Commission and the Central Bank of Nigeria had given their “no objection” to the transaction, the completion of which is subject to the receipt of all required regulatory approval.
In case you missed it
- Access Holdings Plc recently announced that its subsidiary, Access Bank Plc, has entered into a definitive agreement with First Pension Custodian Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of First Bank Nig Holdings Plc.
- The agreement is regarding a proposed purchase by First Pensions of the entire share capital of Access Pension Fund Custodian Limited held by Access Bank Plc.
Great project,I see more growth for access, ithank access holdings for the dividend payout this year, won’t be bad to own more shares,I see them doing a market capitalization of N1trillion naira if they keep going at this rate with their investment, operation and joint venture partnership.
The writer/ journalist will do a great job is clarity is adopted. First Pension Custodian is different from First Guarantee pension. The formal, a Custodian latter a pension house.
The writer cause more confusion than the clarity expire to provide.
Greetings! First Guarantee Pension Limited is not a subsidiary of FBN Holdings Plc or First Bank of Nigeria Limited and has no relationship with any of them.
Accessholding should be thinking more of putting smiles on the faces of the shareholders instead buying up all these moribund and none existing companies