Guaranty Trust Bank Limited (GTBank) is a multinational financial institution that provides individuals, businesses, private and public institutions across Africa and the United Kingdom with a broad range of market-leading financial products and services. Headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria and with subsidiaries in Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom, the Bank currently employs over 12,000 professionals and has Total assets and Shareholders’ Funds of ₦4.057trillion and ₦661.1Billion respectively.
At Guaranty Trust Bank Limited, we constantly strive to create the best outcomes for our customers and communities. Our strong service culture, efficient management, world class corporate governance standards and bias for innovation has enabled us maintain consistent year on year growth in customer base and profitability since inception. We are also passionate champions and enduring patrons of a wide range of Social Responsibility causes channelled towards improving access to Education, driving Community Development, promoting the Arts and and protecting the Environment.
As a Proudly African and Truly International Institution, we are fully invested in powering our continent’s progress. We are at the forefront of promoting enterprise and empowering small businesses, and our free business platforms, the GTBank Fashion Weekend and the GTBank Food and Drink Festival, are driving the growth of Africa’s fashion and food industries and helping to create new and global opportunities for the continent’s incredibly young population.
The GTBank vision is to become a Platform for Enriching Lives by building strong, value adding relationships with customers, stakeholders and the communities in which it operates. In line with this vision, we are constantly pioneering ground-breaking ideas that offer customers more value beyond banking, such as Habari, an integrated digital platform that connects customers to anything they need, from e-commerce to music, in one place. We are also revolutionizing access to consumer loans with our first-of-its-kind digital lending product, Quick Credit, which gives individuals and small businesses instant, real-time access to loans anytime, anywhere.
Over the years, Guaranty Trust Bank Limited has been the recipient of numerous notable awards for product and service innovation, corporate social responsibility and world class governance standards. In 2019, GTBank was recognized as the Best Bank in Africa and Best Bank in Nigeria, by the Euromoney Magazine and the Best Banking Group and Best Retail Bank Nigeria by World Finance Magazine. In the same year, Guaranty Trust Bank Limited also dominated the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Electronic Payment Incentive Scheme (EPIS) Efficiency Awards for the third year in row, taking home 8 of the 12 honours for banks at the forefront of driving the digitalization of financial services.