Nigerian lenders in drive to add female entrepreneurs as customers
Country’s biggest bank has experienced a two-fold surge in deposits from women over the past year since opening a gender-diversity unit
10 November 2019 - 17:44
When Bolanle Austen-Peters sought a loan for a cultural centre in Lagos, she was told there was no business case. Then she found an art-loving banker to back her. Now she is lighting up stages and screens around the world.
Austen-Peters, a lawyer, was 34 and fresh from quitting the UN when her Terra Kulture got equity funding in 2003 from Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB). It was led at the time by the late Tayo Aderinokun, who supported artists such as Yinka Shonibare, whose Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle is on show at the National Maritime Museum in London...
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