FBN meaning in Banking ?

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is a Nigerian multinational bank and financial services company headquartered in Lagos Nigeria. It is the premier bank in West Africa with its impact woven into the fabric of society. First Bank of Nigeria Limited operates as a parent company in Nigeria, with the subsidiaries FBNBank in the Republic of Congo, Ghana, The Gambia, Guinea, Sierra-Leone and Senegal; FBN Bank UK Limited in the United Kingdom with a branch in Paris; FirstBank Representative Office in Beijing to capture trade-related business between geographies. FirstBank also operates First Pension Custodian Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s foremost pensions custodian. The teeming customers of the FirstBank Group are serviced from a network of over 700 business locations across Africa. To promote financial inclusion and reach the unbanked and underbanked, FirstBank has an extensive Agent Banking network, with over 53,000 agent locations across Nigeria. The Bank specialises in retail banking and has the largest client base in West Africa, with over 18 million customers. For eight consecutive years (2011 - 2018) FirstBank received the Best Retail Bank in Nigeria award by The Asian Banker.

FirstBank has a The FirstBank Group employs over 16,000 staff and is proudly a multiple Best Place to Work awardee. It operates along four key Strategic Business Units (SBUs) – Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Commercial Banking and Public Sector Banking. It was previously structured as an operating holding company before the implementation of a non-operating Holding Company structure (FBN Holdings) in 2011/2012.