•  Launching of a new Micro finance policy and regulatory framework to serve the unserved 65 percent of the bankable public  •  Ongoing Pension, Consumer credit, and Mortgage system reforms  •  Forging strategic alliances and partnerships between Nigerian banks and foreign financial institutions especially in the area of reserve/asset management  •  Establishment of Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), as first private-sector led African Investment Bank  •  Encouragement of Nigerian banks to go global, leading to more than doubling of branch network in West Africa since 2004; setting up of subsidiaries in London as well as Nigerian banks successfully issuing Eurobonds and getting listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Our grand objective in the banking sector reforms was to re-engineer and fast-track a system that will engender confidence and power a new economy. So far, the grand objectives of that policy are being achieved, and our consolidation programme has been adjudged about the most successful and at least cost to the tax payers in the world.