Access Bank and Diamond Bank CEOs break down their planned merger
By CNBC
04 January 2019 |
2:20 pm
Earlier this week, Diamond bank announced that it selected Access bank as the preferred bidder with respect to a potential merger of the two banks, a move they say will create Africa’s largest retail bank by customers.
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