Access Bank Sort Codes for Branches in Abuja and Lagos

Access Bank PLC is among the top 3 biggest banks in Nigeria, providing extensive banking services to not only individuals and businesses in the country but also across three continents with its network of over 700 branches.

Access Corporation of Access Bank has been trading on the country’s capital market, the Nigerian Stock Exchange, since 1998 and boasts over 900,000 shareholders. In its recent Financial Disclosure, it had over N12.54 trillion assets in Nigeria, with consolidated assets crossing N22 trillion ($28.8 billion).

In its more than 300 domestic branches in Lagos, Abuja, Oyo, Kwara, Oguna, Rivers, Enugu, Kaduna, and far and wide, Access Bank offers full-service banking, the prominent and popular being personal and commercial banking, which majorly entails sending and receiving of money. Most people prefer Access because of its fast service and personalized bank products.

If you hold an account from Access Bank and you want to make a fund transfer from, let’s say, Access Bank branch in Lagos to another branch of the same bank in maybe Benue, Abia, Lagos, Osun, or Oyo state, you must be knowing the specific branch code and sort codes. But why?

Branch and sort codes are unique bank identifiers in Nigeria to ensure safe and speedy money transfers and easy tracking of payments. In an Access Bank account, it is easier to decipher them as the first three digits of its account numbers represent the branch code, and the following nine are sorting codes, sometimes used as Access Bank routing numbers for continental/international transfers out of Nigeria.

This article focuses on Access Bank PLC sort codes and branch codes for branches located in Abuja and Lagos;

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