First City Monument Bank Plc (FCMB) is a full service banking
group, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, with the vision to be the premier
financial services group of African origin.
From its early origins in investment banking as City Securities Limited in
1977, FCMB, established in 1982, has emerged as one of the leading financial
services institutions in Nigeria and one of the top eight lenders in the
country with subsidiaries that are market leaders in their respective segments.
FCMB was incorporated as a private limited liability company on 20 April 1982
and granted a banking licence on 11 August 1983. On 15 July 2004, the Bank
changed its status from a private limited liability company to a public limited
liability company and was listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, by
introduction, on 21 December 2004. As at December 2012, FCMB had 2 million
customers, 271 branches in Nigeria and a presence in the United Kingdom
(through its FSA-authorised investment banking subsidiary, FCMB UK) and a
representative office in the Republic of South Africa.