LOTUS Bank
“Can a non-interest ethical bank scale nationally in Nigeria against conventional commercial and neo-bank incumbents?”
Founded2020
HQLagos, Nigeria
IndustryBank / National
The story
LOTUS Bank is a Nigerian non-interest (Islamic finance principles) commercial bank founded in 2020 and headquartered in Victoria Island, Lagos. Rather than embedding third-party fintech infrastructure, it operates as a chartered bank offering its own branded retail, SME and agency banking products including cards, POS, USSD and mobile banking. Its ethical/non-interest positioning distinguishes it from Nigeria's conventional commercial banks.
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2020
LOTUS Bank Limited incorporated in Nigeria as a non-interest bank.· banking
2024
Awarded Ethical Banking Leadership Award.· banking
2025
Named Best Ethical & Financial Inclusion Bank of the Year; over 57 branches across Nigeria.· banking
Regulated entities
1
regulatory licence held by LOTUS Bank
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
6 layers disclosed in LOTUS Bank’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Money movement
in the full report
Banking / BaaS
in the full report
Card issuing
in the full report
Card network
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
Accounting gap: significant
8 more providers across 5 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.