Banking: Firstbank ATMs dispense N2.8 trillion.

A woman takes Nigerian Naira from a bank's automated teller machine (ATM)
in Ikeja district in the commercial capital Lagos
November 12, 2014. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

The bank’s Group Head of E-Business, Mr Chuma Ezirim, said in a statement in Lagos on Monday that the bank also accounted for 37 per cent bill payment services on ATMs in the nation’s banking industry.

First Bank of Nig. Ltd. says its Automated Teller Machines (ATMs)  dispensed over N2.8 trillion from January 2017 to December 2017.

The bank’s Group Head of E-Business, Mr Chuma Ezirim, said in a statement in Lagos on Monday that the bank also accounted for 37 per cent bill payment services on ATMs in the nation’s banking industry.

In the statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ezirim said that about 402,102 bill payments were made through Firstbank’s ATMs in 2017, while airtime worth about N1.7 billion was purchased through the machines.

The official said that the bank had the highest number of ATMs, having deployed 2,897 of the machines across the country.

He said that the bank would  continue to cater for the financial service needs of its customers in line with its strategy to drive convenience and ease in banking.

“The bank’s ATMs have unique functional features which include bills payment, cash transfer, air-time top-up, cash deposit, among others,’’ he said.

By NAN.

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