Year: 2024

Fidelity Bank Plc benefited from a fresh rally on the Nigerian Exchange, led the gainers chart over a five day rally. The bank’s share price rose sharply, up by 23% week on week as value hunters and shareholders queued behind the financial services stock.

The naira continued to underperform bullish expectations of major investment firms, including Goldman Sachs, Financial Derivate Companies, Renaissance, and others, amidst claim by the apex bank that the local currency is undervalued.

The foreign currency scarcity problem caused the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to intervene in the forex market five times in response to negative exchange rate movements. Overall, the apex bank injected $33 million to boost FX liquidity in the market.

Banks earnings rose sharply in 2023 as Nigerian lenders earned higher interest income from loan book repricing.  In the latest earnings release by banking sector dominating lenders, their individual report showed interest income skyrocketed using effective pricing method.