Nigerians Vote V Bank as Banking App of the Year

By Dipo Olowookere

A foremost fully digital bank in Nigeria powered by VFD Microfinance Bank, V Bank, has been voted as the Banking App of the Year.

V Bank, which launched in March 2020, was picked ahead of more established brands like GTBank, Access Bank and Wema Bank’s ALAT.

At the 2021 GAGE Awards held in Lagos last month, Nigerians voted the company as the winner of the award category because of its top-notch services.

Recall that recently, V Bank unveiled the new app, Version 3.0, with better features to promote ease of use for its customers.

The new app boasts of exciting features including cardless withdrawals, multiple funds transfers, recurring transactions, proximity payments, advance budgeting, and intelligent airtime top-up.

Besides, users can securely access their accounts to automate recurring bills, manage multiple cards from different banks, send and receive funds using a unique QR code, track daily, weekly, and monthly spends, generate virtual cards for online payments and enable/disable and change pins for physical cards, all within a sleek, responsive, easy-to-use interface.

These features may have swayed voters’ decision to vote V Bank as the Banking App of the Year at the GAGE Awards because it is now the new normal in banking.

The second edition of the award tagged Year of The Digital Takeover is a comprehensive celebration of individuals and brands that have leveraged the power of the internet to make life easier and simpler as well as facilitate growth, drive innovation, and attract new talent to the digital space.

Commenting on the feat, the Managing Director of VFD Microfinance Bank, Mr Azubuike Emodi, thanked the organizers and Nigerians for their votes and choice of V Bank app ahead of others considered as giants in the banking sector, assuring that the company will continue to come up with features that will satisfy the needs of the customers.