Equitorial Trust Bank (ETB) – one of the
nine lenders bailed out by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in
2009 – has been acquired by Sterling Bank.

ETB was one of four Nigerian lenders – the
others being Afribank, Spring Bank and Bank PHB – ordered by the
CBN to find a merging partners, having failed to attract sufficient
capital to remain independent.

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At the start of August, Afribank, Spring
Bank and Bank PHB ran out of time; the lenders were liquidated and
have since been rebranded as Mainstreet Bank, Enterprise Bank and
Keystone Bank, respectively.

The newly merged Sterling/ETB will result
in a lender with deposits of over NGN360bn ($2.3bn), assets of
NGN550bn and a branch network of around 185 outlets.

The Sterling/ETB merger is the fifth such
deal in Nigeria in the past month.

Other deals include:

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