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Diamond Bank Plc.

Company type	Formerly Public limited company
Traded as	NSE: DIAMONDBNK
Industry	Finance
Founded	20 December 1990^[1]
Founder	Pascal Dozie
Defunct	1 April 2019
Fate	Merged with Access Bank Plc., 1 April 2019
Headquarters	Victoria Island, Lagos, Lagos State , Nigeria^[2]
Area served	Nigeria United Kingdom
Key people	Uzoma Dozie (CEO)
Services	Banking Financial services
Revenue	:Pretax: ₦28 billion (US$175 million) (FY:2012)^[3]
Total assets	₦1.7 trillion (US$7.3 billion) (December 2012)
Website	diamondbank.com

Diamond Bank Plc., was a Nigerian multinational financial service provider.^[4] Diamond Bank was acquired by Access Bank in December 2018, and announced to complete the transactions of the merger fully in the first half of 2019.^[5] On 1 April 2019, Diamond Bank was fully merged with Access Bank to build a new entity while retaining the name of Access Bank with a logo that took the form of Diamond Bank.^[6]^[7]

Overview

The bank provided financial services. Its headquarters was located in Lagos, Nigeria.^[8] As at June 2017, the bank operated 297 branches in Nigeria.^[9]^{[citation needed]}

Leadership

Uzoma Dozie was the CEO of the bank up until it was merged with Access Bank. The other board of directors at the time were Mrs. Caroline Anyanwu, Mrs. Chizoma Okoli, Mr. Chiugo Ndubisi, Mr. Kabir Alkali Mohammed, Mr. Damian Dolland, Mr. Dele Babade, Mr. Christopher Ubosi, and Mr. Idris Mohammed.