Deposit Cash Banks (DMBs) and different monetary establishments have notified prospects about their early closure on Friday following the upcoming New Yr celebration.
With the notification, prospects now have between 8 am and 1pm or 3pm, relying on the financial institution, to do their transactions, versus between 8 am and 4 pm.
Consequently, the banks have directed their prospects to make use of various channels for his or her transactions through the interval.
Numerous digital banking channels can be found to prospects, together with Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), Level of Gross sales (PoS), cellular banking, and Web banking, amongst others.
Some monetary establishments which have despatched out notices on the early closure embrace GTBank, and First Financial institution of Nigeria, amongst others.
“Kindly learn that our branches nationwide will near prospects at 1pm on Friday, 29 December 2023. Please be assured which you can nonetheless financial institution with us by way of our various channels,” First Financial institution stated.
“Our branches nationwide will near prospects early on Friday, December 29, 2023. Kindly be aware the early closure time beneath: upcoming branches will shut at 2pm and Lagos branches at 3pm.
“We encourage you to reap the benefits of our safe, handy and always-on various channels in your banking wants, GTBank acknowledged.
The Central Financial institution of Nigeria in December 2011 launched the cashless policy, which goals to curb a few of the adverse penalties related to the excessive utilization of bodily money within the financial system, together with excessive price of money, excessive danger of utilizing money, excessive subsidy, casual financial system, inefficiency and corruption.
