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First Bank Announces The Launch Of Verve Global Card

Nigeria’s foremost financial institution, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced the launch of the Verve Global Card. In partnership with Verve International (Interswitch Group) and Discover Financial Services, the launch took place at Times Square New York City on Monday, 12 August 2019.

L-R: Founder/GMD, Interswitch Group, Mitchell Elegbe; Group Executive, eBusiness & Retail Products, FirstBank, Chuma Ezirim; Deputy Managing Director, FirstBank, Gbenga Shobo; Head, Card & Messaging Business, Folasade Femi-Lawal and Divisional CEO, Verve, Mike Ogbalu, at the Verve Global Card launch in New York

In attendance at the event were FirstBank’s Deputy Managing Director, Gbenga Shobo; Group Executive, eBusiness & Retail Products, Chuma Ezirim; Head, Card & Messaging Business, Folasade Femi-Lawal and Interswitch Group’s Founder/GMD, Mitchell Elegbe and Divisional CEO, Verve, Mike Ogbalu. Discover Financial Services’ Senior Vice President, Payment Services, Joseph Hurley and Executive Vice President, Payment Services, Diane Offereins, amongst others were also in attendance.

First Bank’s DMD, Gbenga Shobo; Head, Card & Messaging Business, Folasade Femi-Lawal and Group Executive, eBusiness & Retail Products, Chuma Ezirim at the Verve Global Card launch, New York

The Verve Global Card, an introduction by Verve International to FirstBank, is a new entry to the array of card products offered by FirstBank to its customers. The FirstBank Verve Global Card is an enhancement to the existing Verve Debit card with exclusive capacity for domestic and cross border transactions across all channels. The card can be linked to Savings & Current accounts, with a “Safetoken” extra protection for web-based transactions.

Speaking on the launch, Deputy Managing Director, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Gbenga Shobo said; “in partnership with Verve International, we are pleased to launch the Verve Global Card as it reinforces our commitment to putting our customers first with innovative and state of the art financial products and services that promote seamless transactions regardless of where they are across the globe.”

“I enjoin every FirstBank customer and the general public to visit the nearest FirstBank branch and request for the card to enjoy seamless cashless transactions” he concluded.

The first transaction of the Verve Global Card was carried-out by the Deputy Managing Director, FirstBank, Gbenga Shobo at Swarovski Shop located on Times Square.

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