The Managing Director of Zenith Bank Ghana, Henry Onwuzurigbo has stated that the bank will continue to invest in the beautification of the Greater Accra region during festive seasons.

He made the statement at a Carols Night ceremony to light up the Head Office of Zenith Bank Ghana at Ridge, the Airport Roundabout and other parts of the city ahead of the Christmas and New Year seasons.

“As the pacesetter of what has become a national initiative to beautify the city’s landscape during this festive period, we are officially launching our Christmas festivities and lighting up Zenith Heights and some very prominent parts of the city”, he said.

“Let the lights of the cityscape here on the Independence Avenue and at the Big Six Roundabout, its median as well as at the Terminal 3 Roundabout in the airport enclave be a reminder of the bright future we continue to build together as a bank and as a nation”, he added.

He explained that Zenith Bank will always invest in the environment which it operates to benefit its clients.

Touching on the performance of the bank in 2023, he said the bank is posting good numbers due to its vision to make its customers and clients important aspect of its operations.

“2023 has been a very remarkable year for our Bank.  We have achieved feats never seen or recorded in the history of our bank’s financial performance”, he announced.

Providing some more figures Mr. Onwuzurigbo  disclosed that the Zenith Bank has produced the best unaudited pre-tax profit ever with a growth of 82% - from ¢403 million in September 2022 to ¢735 million in September 2023.

“Also, our total assets grew to ¢12.03 billion, a 14.57% increase from the ¢10.5 billion recorded during the comparable period of the third quarter of 2022”, he said.

He pointed out that despite expectations that customers business output would decrease, the bank rather saw an increase in total deposits by 22% which amounted to ¢10.2 million, from the previous year's figure of ¢8.4 million.

Outlining some feats achieved during the year, Mr. Onwuzurigbo said the bank recently moved its Achimota branch to a new and friendlier business location.

“These are successes chalked, despite the challenges and uncertainties that rocked the Banking industry in the early part of 2023. With this performance so far, we are determined, motivated and confident as a bank to exceed our 2023 end of year financial targets”.