FirstBanC Financial Services has officially opened its Tema Branch, as part of the expansion mission to reach a larger market, in Tema, Community 1, in the Nicholas Plaza.
FirstBanC with a mission to helping clients build wealth by providing creative, innovative world class financial services including Fund Management and Advisory Services has opened up the Tema business branch as a way of catering for the industrial city and its environs.
The Managing Director of FirstBanC, Mr Samuel Asiedu said through the award winning research team, Tema was found to be a suitable place to operate, since the bank as part of the expansion project wants to get closer to its valued customers.
“We cannot sit only in Accra to achieve our target of expansion, our clients have grown tremendously since we started operation, through our dedicated staff, Board of Directors and clients, we have achieved a lot and it is time we moved closer to people to fulfil a better service to them.
“We bring to residents of Tema and its environs, two mutual funds with high yields than any other and an excellent Pension Fund Management, Corporate Finance and Advisory and Brokerage Services, and we invite everyone to visit this branch to transact business, “he added.
In an interview with GNA, Mr Asiedu said FirstBanC which is number two in Pension Fund Management in Ghana is seeking to double its current workforce of more than 14,000.
“We have plans of opening two more branches in other regions to get closer to our cherished clients and also to double our client base in the next three years as part of our expansion projects.
“We hope to become the number one in Pension Fund Management through our expansions.”
The Chairman for the event, Nene Drolor Bosso Damtey I, Chancellor, University of Professional Studies, Accra, said he is delighted to witness the opening of the Tema branch to provide the needed services for the people and other great services to the people of Ghana.
“FirstBanC is a unique institution, it stands apart, providing the needed and critical service and financial opportunity for not just the people of Tema and its environs but for the nation.”
“FirstBanC is very creative and innovative and looks for the future of each individual within our country to take advantage of investment opportunities and also to increase values for their families and also create wealth in the process” he added.
The Paramount Chief of Tema and the President of Tema Traditional Council, Nii Adjei Kraku II, thanked FirstBanC for opening up a branch in his area and urged FirstBanC to treat clients with the utmost respect to create an enabling environment to thrive on.
“Tema is an industrial city and it abounds in business opportunities, create an environment to succeed rather than drive customers away, Let your name FirstBanC, speak for itself.”
The Deputy Director-General, Finance for Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr Lawrence Yirenkyi-Boafo, praised the management of FirstBanC for adding to its outlets and urged Ghanaians to patronise its services as it operates a very certified services.
“The opening of this outlet will add to the capital market and I urge the board to put in stringent controls to work in the regulator.”
FirstBanC, which began operation in 2009, and has provided investment products and services in the area of asset and pension fund management, corporate finance and advisory services and brokerage, has through its flagship First Fund, been adjudged the Best Performing Money Market Mutual Fund, since 2010,for five consecutive years.
Source: GNA | Ghana
