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On Friday 5 August 2011, Keystone Bank Limited was issued a commercial banking license by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). On the same day, CBN revoked the banking license of Bank PHB. Keystone Bank assumed the assets and some liabilities of the now defunct Bank PHB.
On 22 March 2017, Asset Management Company of Nigeria announced that Keystone bank had been sold to investors for 25 billion naira ($81.5 million). It was sold to Sigma Golf-Riverbank consortium.
On February 11, 2025, the Lagos State Special Offences Court ordered the forfeiture of 6.3 billion units of ordinary shares in Keystone Bank Limited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The decision followed a guilty plea by Sigma Golf Nigeria Limited in a ₦20 billion fraud case filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
From Wikipedia’s article on Keystone Bank Limited, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5