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First Bank of Nigeria launches Verve Global Card

First Bank of Nigeria launches Verve Global Card

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, the country’s premier and leading financial services provider, recently launch of the Verve Global Card. In partnership with Verve International (Interswitch Group) and Discover Financial Services, the launch took place at Times Square New York City on Monday, 12 August 2019.

The Verve Global Card, an introduction by Verve International to Firstbank, is a new entry to the array of card products offered by Firstbank to its customers. The Firstbank Verve Global Card is an enhancement to the existing Verve Debit card with exclusive capacity for domestic and crossborder transactions across all channels. The card can be linked to Savings & Current accounts, with a “Safetoken” extra protection for webbased transactions.

In attendance at the event were Firstbank’s Deputy Managing Director, Gbenga Shobo; Group Executive, ebusiness & Retail Products, Chuma Ezirim; Head, Card & Messaging Business, Folasade Femi-lawal and Interswitch Group’s Founder/ GMD, Mitchell Elegbe and Divisional CEO, Verve, Mike Ogbalu. Discover Financial Services’ Senior Vice President, Payment Services, Joseph Hurley and Executive Vice President, Payment Services, Diane Offereins, amongst others were also in attendance.

Speaking at the event, Shobo declared that, “in partnership with Verve International, we are pleased to launch the Verve Global Card as it reinforces our commitment to putting our customers first with innovative and state of the art financial products and services that promote seamless transactions regardless of where they are across the globe.”