As part of activities to mark its 75th anniversary of delivering excellent services and driving global impact, Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa Plc, has unveiled the UBA Time Capsule as well as a Tribe Photo Wall.
The UBA time capsule brings together objects or information from the past 75 years that will be preserved for future generations.
This will be for them to discover and learn more about the history of the global financial institution that has grown from a small office in Lagos, Nigeria to a financial giant with tentacles in 20 African countries as well as four key financial capitals of the world: London, Paris, New York and Dubai.
The Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of UBA, Oliver Alawuba, took time to lay the groundwork for the next 25 years and 75 years as he reeled off what the bank aims to achieve in its quest to take Africa to the world.
Alawuba said: “What we are doing here today is part of UBA’s 75th Anniversary celebrations which began early this year.
“Today, we are unveiling our Time Capsule, which shows the history of what we are and where we have been in the past seven decades.
“It is a trip down our memory lane, showing all that we achieved and how we got here.
“You can also see the UBA tribe wall which we unveiled today, this basically shows how we see all the staff of UBA, both past and present who have in one way or the other contributed to where we are today.
“As you all know, there is no UBA without staff, so we are today launching the UBA Tribe wall to tell our story on how the bank has grown, by showing our history of how we started and where we are now.”
On what he foresees in the next decades for the bank, Alawuba said: “We are driven by innovation in UBA, and what we have achieved now is minimal to what we plan to achieve when UBA is 100 or 150 years.
“As of now, UBA is in 24 countries, and in the next 25 years, we will see UBA in 100 countries.
“Our current revenue base which stands at $20 billion, we hope to increase to over $20 trillion in the next 25 years, and in that time, we also hope to be one of Top 10 banks in the whole world, because we know that the future of the world is Africa, and the future of Africa is UBA.”
Alawuba said the bank will continue to focus on the people and its customers to ensure that they tailor each of its activities, products and services to meet the growing needs of its rich clientele situated all around the world.
United Bank for Africa is one of the largest employers in the financial sector on the African continent, with 25,000 employees group wide and serving over 45 million customers globally.
Operating in 20 African countries and in the United Kingdom, United States of America, France and United Arab Emirates, UBA provides retail, commercial and institutional banking services, leading financial inclusion and implementing cutting edge technology.
