Bank PHB Group
Bank PHB Group, also known as Platinum Habib Bank Group, was a financial services organization in West Africa and East Africa. The Group's headquarters was located on Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria, with subsidiaries in Nigeria, the Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda. Bank PHB Group was one of the largest financial services organizations in Africa, with an estimated asset base in excess of US$3.6 billion, as of December 2009.
Member Companies
The member companies of Bank PHB Group included but were not limited to the following:
Bank PHB - Lagos, Nigeria
Bank PHB Gambia - Banjul, Gambia
Bank PHB Liberia - Monrovia, Liberia
Bank PHB Sierra Leone - Freetown, Sierra Leone
Insurance PHB Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
Mortgages PHB Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
Orient Bank - Kampala, Uganda
PHB Asset Management - Lagos, Nigeria
PHB HealthCare Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
Platinum Capital Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
Spring Bank Plc. - Lagos, Nigeria
Failure and Closure
On August 5, 2011, the Central Bank of Nigeria revoked the operating licence of BankPHB along with that of Afribank and Spring Bank as they had not shown capacity and ability to recapitalize before the September 30, 2011 recapitalization deadline.