Wahala for Nigerian banks as 234 branches and 649 ATMs closed — IMF
The Fund disclosed this
in its Financial Access Survey 2021 Trends and Developments released yesterday.
According to the
report, the international community uses two FAS indicators to monitor the
Target 8.10 of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which aims at
strengthening the capacity of domestic financial institutions to expand access
to banking and financial services.
The two FAS
indicators are Number of Commercial Bank Branches per 100,000 Adults and Number
of ATMs per 100,000 Adults.
According to the
report, Nigeria recorded declines in these two critical FAS indicators
and 12 other indicators among the 64 indicators measured by the FAS.
This
according to the report, was due to the decline in the number of commercial
bank branches in Nigeria to 5,158 in 2020 from 5,392 in 2019.
Consequently,
the Number of Commercial Bank Branches per 1,000 km2 in Nigeria fell to 5.94 in
2020 from 5.68 in 2019.
Similarly,
in terms of Number of ATMs per 100,000 Adults, the country’s Financial Access
score fell to 17.19 in 2020 from 16.14 in 2020.
The reduction
according to the IMF was to fall in the number of ATMs in Nigeria by 649 to
18,810 in 2020 from 19,459 in 2019.
Also, the
Number of ATMs per 1,000 km2 in Nigeria fell to 20.65 in 2020 from 21.36 in 2019.
The IMF report
also showed a sharp decline in the number of registered mobile money agent
outlets in Nigeria to 129,154 in 2020 from 145,800 in 2019, representing 11 per
cent decline.
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