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5 Things You Should Know About Muyiwa Akinyemi, UBA Deputy Managing Director
one of the homegrown successes
Muyiwa Akinyemi, the top banker dubbed the team player is the Deputy Managing Director (DMD) at the Multinational pan-African financial services group headquartered in Lagos and known as Africa’s Global Bank – United Bank for Africa (U.B.A) group.
Here are five things you should know about the exemplar of “focus”, “competence” and “good conduct” according to SocietyNow.Ng’s checks.
1, He is a thoroughbred UBA man with 17years – and still counting – out of over 25yrs in the banking industry dedicated to the bank with Oliver Alawuba as Group Managing Director and the extraordinary Tony Elumelu as Chairman.
2, Akinyemi is described as more than a handful of expertise with recommendations as a seasoned financial analyst, corporate and investment banker with over two decades of experience spanning business advisory, financial control, investment banking, capital market services, wholesale banking, energy, government, and corporate banking, in Nigeria and across Africa credited to his name.
3, The Deputy Managing Director of UBA group was the Managing Director of UBA Kenya from August 2010 to August 2011.
4, Akinyemi joined the banking industry in January 1994 with Diamond Bank and joined Standard Trust Bank in May 1998. He was Head of Investment Banking and COO (Chief Operating Officer), STB Capital Markets Limited during a 7years and 3 months stint. STB merged with U.B.A in a ground-breaking deal consummated on August 1, 2005.
The rated banker was aboard the deal and it signaled the beginning of his U.B.A journey as Head, of Business Development, Corporate & Investment Banking Directorate in August 2005.
5, He is one of the homegrown successes with a B.SC in Accounting from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Osun state, to his name. And a member of the Chartered Institute of Nigeria (CIBN) and Associate of the Chartered Accountants of Nigeria among other enviable certifications.
With over 20,000 people in its employment and subsidiaries across and beyond Africa, the financial assets of UBA group as of December 2021 were valued at ₦8.5 trillion (US$20.1 billion), with shareholders’ equity of ₦724.1 billion (US$1.8 billion).
“The DMD’s unfolding success story is that of strong conviction of a dream, commitment to a process and loyalty to brand by someone of very enviable good conduct” SocietyNow.Ng learned.
