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| Tunde Coker, newly appointed Regional Head, EMP for West Africa |
Emerging Markets Payments (EMP) has
appointed Mr. Tunde Coker as its Regional Head for West Africa.
The chief executive officer, EMP Bank
Processing Division, Ms. Hoda Shoukry, confirmed this to DigitalSENSE Business News on Tuesday.
She said that EMP's Bank Processing
division provides card personalization, card hosting, card processing and Automated
Teller Machines (ATM) and Point of Sale (POS) driving services to 135 banks
across the Middle
East and North Africa (MENA) region.
“50 of these are in West Africa, which
highlights the importance of this appointment," she said, stressing that West
Africa region has the potential to be one of the fastest growing regions in the
world for electronic payments given the current low penetration of formal
financial services.
DigitalSENSE Business News
recollects that Tunde Coker was the former Group Chief Information Officer for
Access Bank, one of Nigeria's leading banks and during his tenure, Access Bank recorded
improved ranking from number 11 to a top 4 bank.
Also, Mr. Coker was responsible for
integrating Intercontinental Bank's systems with Access Bank. Additionally, prior
to Access Bank, he was Group IT Director for the United Kingdom (UK) Ministry
of Justice, Group Applications Director for BP International and Director of
Digital Services for Egg Bank in the UK.
Shoukry pointed out that Mr. Coker would
be key to spearheading EMP's drive to provide the region with world-class
technology and products, given his outstanding record in the banking sector
both in West Africa and the UK, coupled with his experience in banking systems,”
continued Hoda Shoukry.
Tunde has a BSc in Mechanical
Engineering from Glamorgan University and an MSc from Cranfield Institute of
Technology.
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