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Top 21 Rural banks based in Nigeria
RevenueBase identified 153 rural banks headquartered in Nigeria as of September 2026 and tracks 7,718 professional contacts across them, including 1,139 with verified work emails. Lagos is the largest hub.
This list covers rural banks headquartered in Nigeria, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026.
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The 21 largest rural banks based in Nigeria
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 985 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AB Microfinance Bank Nigeria is a leading financial institution with a mission to provide a wide range of financial services to the small and medium scale enterprises as well as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 792 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2007, Accion Microfinance Bank has a mission, “to economically empower micro-entrepreneurs and low-income earners by providing financial services in a sustainable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 430 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bank of Agriculture Limited (BoA), is Nigeria's apex agriculture and rural development finance institution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 366 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2008, Addosser Microfinance Bank Limited is one of the leading Microfinance banks in Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fast Credit Limited (FCL) was established in line with Central Bank of Nigeria regulations to carry out the business of financing personal, business and emergency loans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Koins Microfinance Bank Limited is a fully licensed technology and impact-driven microfinance bank that focuses on driving financial inclusion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A full service microfinance bank offering savings, loans and e-banking services to micro small and medium enterprises and low to medium income people” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moneyfield Microfinance Bank Limited (formerly CIT Microfinance Bank), was licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria to operate in 2010 and opened for business operations in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Assets Microfinance Bank is a fully licensed deposit mobilization bank on a mission to better understand people who, up until now, have been ignored or exploited by mainstream…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chanelle Microfinance Bank Limited is a State licensed microfinance bank.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AjoCard was created to "deliver financial services to the excluded".” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Touching lives through financial empowerment’ Vision: To be the leading provider of financial services that will help to alleviate poverty in Nigeria”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “4Stone Capital is a dynamic financial Institute set up primarily to bridge lending gaps in the dealings with commercial banks & individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “e-Barcs Microfinance Bank Limited (initially known as e-Barclays Microfinance Bank Ltd) commenced microfinance banking business in August, 2008 with a unit license.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Crystal Finance operates as a specialized financial institution dedicated to providing financial services to Individuals, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Emerging…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VISION: To be the leading National Microfinance Bank that offers the premium financial banking services in Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ClearPay Microfinance Bank Limited was incorporated in April 28th 2008 to carry on microfinance banking business and was granted an operating license by the Central Bank of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A microfinance institution established to ease and provide access to financial freedom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reliance Microfinance Bank is committed to rendering unique and reliable financial services which includes digital banking, savings, investments, loans facilities as well as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Providing financial services such as savings and deposits, and loans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kyte Capital & Credit is a foremost financial partner, providing convenient financing solutions to individuals and institutions seeking to take bold steps forward.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: rural banks. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names rural banks.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of rural banks, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name rural banks. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Rural banks based in Nigeria at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Nigeria, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Nigeria, over 153 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among rural banks, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Nigeria whose own description of what they do matches “rural banks”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names rural banks), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among rural banks, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Nigeria are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,139 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Rural banks by metro
- Rural banks in Lagos41
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names rural banks, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many rural banks are there based in Nigeria?
RevenueBase identified 153 rural banks headquartered in Nigeria as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
AB Microfinance Bank Nigeria Limited, headquartered in Ikeja, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most rural banks?
Lagos leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by Lagos State (18) and Abuja (10).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,139 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 153 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.