₦airaland Forum

As of January 6, 2026, nineteen Nigerian banks have met the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s recapitalization requirements, ahead of the March 31 deadline.

This was disclosed in data released by The Cable Index on Tuesday.

The banks with international licenses that have complied include Access Bank, Fidelity Bank, First Bank, GTBank (GTCO), UBA, and Zenith Bank.

For banks with national and regional licenses, Citibank Nigeria, Ecobank Nigeria, Globus Bank, Stanbic IBTC, Sterling Bank, Wema Bank,

PremiumTrust Bank, and Providus Bank have all met the CBN’s recapitalization benchmarks.

Additionally, two non-interest banks, Jaiz and Lotus and three merchant banks, including FSDH, Greenwich, and Nova, have achieved the required capital thresholds.

Despite this progress, approximately 14 banks are still to meet the recapitalization requirement, confirming earlier reports by DAILY POST.

CBN had announced fresh capital requirements in March 2024: N500 billion for international banks, N200 billion for national banks, N50 billion for merchant banks, and between N10 billion and N20 billion for non-interest banks.

Melagros:
COMRADES, thank God my bank dey up there, check very well oo, if your bank no dey there (no fit meet up) go and empty your money from the bank on Monday to avoid regret and heartbreak

lordm:
GTbank and too much charges. Send N500 they will still take charges.

ravensckar:
I know sey ACCESS BANK no go ever make the list. Very unfortunate bank with poor network services.

Only to be deducting someone's money like criminals. I opted out of SMS alert, the criminals were still charging me.

Awon Ole Jati-jati!

BitmapStudios:
FCMB nko?
Or will it merge with a banks like Fidelity or Polaris?

ravensckar:
I know sey ACCESS BANK no go ever make the list. Very unfortunate bank with poor network services.

Only to be deducting someone's money like criminals. I opted out of SMS alert, the criminals were still charging me.

Awon Ole Jati-jati!

oluwaseyi0:
Congratulations to them
Other will eventually scale through or merge

ravensckar:
I know sey ACCESS BANK no go ever make the list. Very unfortunate bank with poor network services.

Only to be deducting someone's money like criminals. I opted out of SMS alert, the criminals were still charging me.

Awon Ole Jati-jati!

VoiceHenshaw27:
Wallets, such as OPAY, PALMPAY, FAIRMONEY etc couldn't make the list.

Enddy50ty:
Where's Opay?


I didn't see them on the list, my heart dey shake ooh

Antoeni:
Opay should be Among The first 5

ravensckar:
I know sey ACCESS BANK no go ever make the list. Very unfortunate bank with poor network services.

Only to be deducting someone's money like criminals. I opted out of SMS alert, the criminals were still charging me.

Awon Ole Jati-jati!

ZombieTAMER:
What of keystone

my money dey safe so ?