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E. O. Oloyede, The Bank Customer and Banking Law in Nigeria, Journal of African Law, Vol. 19, No. 1/2, Spring, 1975; G. O. Nwankwo, Bank Lending in a Developing Economy: The Nigerian Experience, Journal of African Law, Vol. 19, Spring, 1975 "Foreign reserves down, bank lending up as economy falters", Financial Times, 29 November 1982
The EFCC was established in 2003, partially in response to pressure from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), [2] which named Nigeria as one of 23 countries non-cooperative in the international community's efforts to fight money laundering. [1] The agency has its head office in Abuja, Nigeria. The EFCC was also set up to ...
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria AMCON was established in 2009 by the National Assembly of Nigeria. [11] The institution acquires non-performing loans of commercial banks. The financing of AMCON is composed of a ₦50 billion CBN fund and 0.3% of total assets of participating commercial banks.
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) is the financial intelligence unit of Nigeria, responsible for collecting and analyzing disclosures from reporting organizations, in order to produce financial intelligence to other agencies combating money laundering, terrorism financing, and other financial crimes.
Financial law forms a substantial portion of commercial law, and notably a substantial proportion of the global economy, and legal billables are dependent on sound and clear legal policy pertaining to financial transactions. [2] [3] [4] Therefore financial law as the law for financial industries involves public and private law matters. [5]
Financial regulation is a broad set of policies that apply to the financial sector in most jurisdictions, justified by two main features of finance: systemic risk, which implies that the failure of financial firms involves public interest considerations; and information asymmetry, which justifies curbs on freedom of contract in selected areas of financial services, particularly those that ...
The Constitution of Nigeria is the supreme law of the country. There are four distinct legal systems in Nigeria, which include English law, Common law, Customary law, and Sharia Law. English law in Nigeria is derived from the colonial Nigeria, while common law is a development from its post-colonial independence. [1]
The National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institution Employees (NUBIFIE) is a trade union representing workers in the finance industry in Nigeria. The union was founded in 1978, when the Government of Nigeria merged nine unions: [1] Bank of the North Staff Union; British American Insurance Workers' Union of Nigeria