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Impressive Financial Metrics As Wema Bank Attains 76

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Impressive financial metrics of Wema Bank delight shareholders<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>O<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">penLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Wema Bank&comma; Nigeria’s leading innovative and digital-led financial institution&comma; established on May 2&comma; 1945&comma; is 76 years old with impressive financial metrics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The bank&comma; through its Chief Executive Officer&comma; Ademola Adebise&comma; has reassured its esteemed customers and shareholders that it remains standing on strong&comma; impressive<strong> financial<&sol;strong> fundamentals and reliable performance metrics&comma; riding on the back of seasoned and astute leadership&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The bank also commended its customers for their sustained trust in the institution&comma; especially on the occasion of the Bank’s 76th anniversary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reacting  to a recent publication in the media purportedly alleging a dip in its liquidity status following the unaudited report for 2020&comma; the CEO said the report is only a deliberate wicked campaign to create panic among the stakeholder using false news&comma; and therefore should be discountenanced&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The strength and viability of financial institutions are not measured on the isolated performance of one outlier year&period; The said report based a lot of its false allegations on the 2020 financial year&period; But that was a year when COVID-19 induced a lockdown and a disruption of such magnitude that negatively impacted businesses&comma; industries and economies the world over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Wema Bank has continually exhibited not just resilience&comma; but admirable viability over the years with a 30&period;95&percnt; increase in earnings recorded in just 2019&period; Then came 2020&comma; and in spite of the difficulties&comma; we succeeded in achieving significant increase in net fees and commission&comma; while growing the Bank’s asset base by over 37&percnt; to over N900billion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s not all&comma; customer credibility in the bank was also accentuated by over 40&percnt; increase in customer deposits from the previous year&comma; translating to more than N800 billion in 2020&period; This is an audacious show of confidence from the customers of Wema Bank<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;These performance metrics amongst others&comma; are testament to our smart balance sheet optimization approach&comma; and will be affirmed by the time the audited 2020 Financial Report is released in the coming weeks &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Commenting further on customer assurance and the integrity of Wema Bank’s alternative transaction platforms&comma; Adebise said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we have been credited with successful transaction of Nxxxx billion across our ATM and e-channels in 2020&semi; much as our xxx&comma;xxx agents across the country who have processed over xxx thousand&sol;million transactions with astonishing values&comma; also in 2020&period; This is another testament to the stability and inspirational direction of Wema Bank to navigate the uncertainties even post covid&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The CEO also referenced how well the Bank’s performance in the said 2020 makes it one of the best performing financial institutions in the land&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We won the award for the Best SME Bank of the Year for 2020 from BusinessDay&period; A recognition of our unrivalled support for small and medium scale businesses through loans&comma; business advisory&comma; and ease of payments and transactions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Also&comma; the recently published 2020 KPMG Customer Experience Survey&comma; showed Wema Bank making significant growth in the retail category&comma; climbing up ten places from the previous year to 2nd position&comma; with an above industry average of 74&period;6&percnt; CX score&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This achievement is a mark of dedication to excellent customer service and refreshing support for all our customer categories&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The KPMG Customer Experience Survey grades banks over six universal pillars of Personalization&comma; Integrity&comma; Expectations&comma; Resolution&comma; Time &amp&semi; Effort and Empathy&comma; and Wema Bank has showed a mastery of these pillars and have been outstanding at all of them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Furthermore&comma; in line with the bank’s sustainability goal of developing digital solutions for societal impact&comma; it successfully organized the second edition of Hackaholics&comma; a radical gathering of developers&comma; web designers and creative thinkers to develop solutions around key themes of Education&comma; Health&comma; Agriculture&comma; Fintech&comma; Gaming &amp&semi; Betting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These are intentional measures put in place to sustain an institution’s legacy of economic evolution and social inclusion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are a responsible corporate citizen with empathy as a core pillar of our personality&period; Thus&comma; we stood by the nation in the trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic with significant support for governments at both the federal and state levels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Particularly to prevent severe food shortages and align with the SDG of Zero Hunger&comma; we supported State Governments with food palliatives donation which alleviated the conditions of over 80&comma;000 households of the most vulnerable segments of the population&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With all these financial and non-financial performance metrics&comma; it is not in doubt that Wema Bank is among the best performing financial institutions in Nigeria in 2020&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;While detractors pursue their ulterior motives with various campaigns of calumny&comma; for us as a responsible and visionary organization&comma; we are staying committed to our corporate purpose of making life easier and better through innovation and digital-driven lifestyle solutions for Nigerians and their businesses&period;” Adebise concluded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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