What do Banks do with their Website?

Most companies in Nigeria are now embracing the internet – at least to put up what looks like websites. Banks have been here before others but I’m not sure if they all know what to do with it.
In my spare time, I ranked all the banks and using the Alexa ranking. Alexa is an Amazon company that aggregates web traffic to rank popularity of website. So for example, Google.com is the number destination  worldwide but number 2 in the USA where Facebook.com reigns (people have time to farf!). Don’t even bother to check my website ranking, nobody apart from me and you visits here.

Bank Website Nigeria Global
Access Bank www.accessbankplc.com 338 56,440
Citibank www.citigroup.com/citi/about/countrypresence/nigeria.html 13,270
Diamond Bank www.diamondbank.com 150 30,081
Ecobank Nigeria www.ecobank.com/countryinfo.aspx?cid=74072 44,193
Enterprise Bank web.entbankng.com 1,623,102
Fidelity Bank www.fidelitybankplc.com 912 101,328
First Bank www.firstbanknigeria.com 316 38,430
First City Monument Bank www.firstcitygroup.com 3,160 354,439
First City Monument Bank www.fcmb.com 4,938 348,675
Guaranty Trust Bank www.gtbank.com 18 3,631
Heritage Bank www.hbng.com 7,128 1,058,728
Keystone Bank www.keystonebankng.com 1,590 245,477
Mainstreet Bank www.mainstreetbanklimited.com 5,473 695,549
Skye Bank www.skyebankng.com 1,050 111,101
Stanbic IBTC Bank www.stanbicibtcbank.com 279 50,567
Standard Chartered Bank www.standardchartered.com.ng 2,273 258,505
Sterling Bank www.sterlingbankng.com 466 95,814
Union Bank of Nigeria www.unionbankng.com 1,595 190,767
United Bank for Africa www.ubagroup.com 320 71,157
Unity Bank www.unitybankng.com 3,927 757,389
Wema Bank www.wemabank.com 4,458 548,194
Zenith Bank www.zenithbank.com 136 21,304

Author: Adedeji Olowe

Adédèjì is the founder of Lendsqr, the loan infrastructure fintech powering lenders at scale. Before this, he led Trium Limited, the corporate VC of the Coronation Group, which invested in Woven Finance, Sparkle Bank, Clane, and L1ght, amongst others. He has almost two decades of banking experience, including stints as the Divisional Head of Electronic Banking at Fidelity Bank Plc. He drove the turnaround of the bank’s digital business. He was previously responsible for United Bank for Africa Group’s payment card business across 19 countries. Alongside other industry veterans, he founded Open Banking Nigeria, the nonprofit driving the development and adoption of a common API standard for the Nigerian financial industry. Beyond open APIs, Adédèjì works deeply within the fintech ecosystem; he’s the board chairman at Paystack. Adédèjì is a renowned fintech pundit and has been blogging on technology and payments at dejiolowe.com since 2001.

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