Nigerian banking has changed almost unrecognizably over the past 10 years, and especially the past three. A decade ago, as a result of financial deregulation in the 1990s, there were more than 100 banks spread across the west African nation, often representing informal power bases, or ‘big men’.
Back then, brawls would break out in boardrooms – one story tells of a chairman using his honorific walking stick to break an uncooperative CEO’s jaw. Increased capital requirements in the mid-2000s led to a series of mergers, with more genuine banking business models often winning out.
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