By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate
Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Nigeria’s top tier lender, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank) says it has been named the ‘2015 African Bank of the Year’ at the eighth annual Africa investor (Ai) CEO Investment Summit, which was held in New York, United States last week.
Africa investor says Africa’s business and investment leaders at the Ai Summit sent a powerful, well-curated statement to government leaders negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and issued a seminal business statement entitled; The Business of African Development Economic Development: Implementing the Sustainable Development and Finance Goals in Support of Agenda 2063.
According to Ai, the Statement was launched during the Ai African Heads of State Investment Advisory Council working lunch, co-hosted by UN OSAA, the Global Partnerships Forum and the African Union Commission.
“This Africa investor Business Statement reflected the recommendations and collective views of private sector leaders working in Africa on required partnerships and optimal ways to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union’s Agenda 2063. The Ai Business Statement recommendations will also be taken up during the Ai Presidential CEO Investment Summit, to be held in partnership with NEPAD and the African Union in January 2016, during the AU Heads of State Summit in Ethiopia,” Ai added.
The Summit is a unique business and institutional investors’ forum that represents the leading international investment platform for public and private sector leaders to share their voice and proposals on African business, economic development and investment and business environment policy leadership.
Africa investor is a specialist investment and communications firm advising governments, international organisations and businesses on strategies for capital market and foreign direct investments in Africa. Africa investor publishes Africa investor, the leading international newsstand magazine for Africa’s investment decision makers; maintains the Africa investor 40 Investors’ Index, hosts the Ai Index Series Summit & Awards and the Africa investor Infrastructure Projects Summit & Awards, among other events.
The exclusive, invitation-only Ai CEO Investment Summit was attended by over 250 of Africa’s most prominent and influential business, government and development finance leaders, as well as five African Heads of State, according to a statement from Ai said.
However, shares at GTBank fell 0.08 percent at the end the end of the three (3) day trading session on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) opening at N24.15 and closing at N24.13 losing 0.02 kobo per share.
