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# Access Bank Completes Acquisition of Standard Chartered Cameroon Operations
- URL: https://www.theglobalbanker.com/access-bank-completes-acquisition-standard-chartered-cameroon-operations/
- Published: 2025-12-05T14:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T14:32:55.000Z
- Description: Access Bank has completed its takeover of Standard Chartered's Cameroon business, the final leg of a multi-country sub-Saharan Africa divestment agreed in July 2023.
- Author: TGB Editorial Team
- Tags: M&A, Africa, #archive

Access Bank completed the acquisition of Standard Chartered's Cameroon operations on 5 December 2025, closing out the final transfer under the master agreement the two banks signed in July 2023\. The deal represents the conclusion of a multi-country divestment programme through which Standard Chartered agreed to sell its subsidiaries in four sub-Saharan African markets, and its consumer, private and business banking business in a fifth, Tanzania, to the Nigeria-headquartered lender.

Standard Chartered confirmed the handover in a statement dated 5 December 2025\. Access Bank already operates in Cameroon through its subsidiary Access Bank Cameroon.

#### THE FINAL LEG OF A FIVE-COUNTRY DEAL

The July 2023 master agreement between Access Bank and Standard Chartered encompassed operations in Angola, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, The Gambia, and Tanzania. The Cameroon close on 5 December 2025 brings that programme to its conclusion.