Access Bank has increased its branches in the country to 47 with the unveiling of its newest branch at the Cargo Centre Village at the Airport.
The bank said it will further deepen its financial inclusion agenda and play a facilitating role for cargo and passenger handling payments at one of the largest cargo hubs in West Africa.
Access Bank’s presence at the new Cargo Centre Village has been as a result of spearheading a public-private partnership with the Ghana Airport Cargo Centre Limited (GACC), a partnership between Air Ghana Limited (AGL) and Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) and Swissport.
Located at the ground floor, the new branch will provide timely financial services for customers and individuals working in and around the mini-commercial city of Airport, as well as agencies and businesses, including the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), cargo airlines, aviation handling services companies and other related businesses.
The Cargo Centre branch offers the bank’s full range of personal and business banking products including flexible savings and current account options, bills payment services, e-banking, card services, as well as domestic and international money transfer through Western Union, Moneygram, RIA and Cross border Money Transfer.
Commenting on the opening of the new branch, Dolapo Ogundimu, Managing Director noted: “Our presence within the cargo centre enclave demonstrates our unflinching commitment to play a meaningful role in Ghana’s development. We see ourselves as major contributors and are supporting businesses to access banking services without having to move long distances”.
He added that the bank had embarked on an intelligent expansion across the country from 2014 and is now a truly national bank with presence in all 10 regions in Ghana, having opened its Wa branch office about two months ago.
“Between now and next year, we intend to roll an additional 10 branches in our quest to drive our retail banking strategy and become one of the top tier banks in Ghana by 2018,” he concluded.
Recently, the bank launched an Initial Public Offering (IPO) for the sale of 26 million shares at GH¢4 per share as part of plans to list on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) before the end of 2016.
A business desk report