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CitadeleCapitals

Grow it. Borrow against it.Spend it. All in one place.

A licensed microfinance bank that works like your favourite app.

8,710+ clients borrowing and investing with us

Licensed by the CBN · Deposits insured by NDIC

  • Grow

    Up to 22% a year

  • Save

    Locked until you need it

  • Borrow

    Against your savings

  • Spend

    A card that works

  • Ajo

    Your group, our vault

  • Bills

    Light, airtime, data

What the app does

One place

Everything you do with money, on one screen

Your balance, your savings, your loan limit and your bills — not four apps and three passwords. Open it and the whole picture is already there.

Grow

Interest you can watch land

Your balance earns every day and pays on the first of the month. The app shows you what you earned and for which days — not a rounded figure at the end.

Borrow

A limit you already qualify for

Because we can see your savings, there is no form and no guarantor. Take what you need, keep earning on the rest, and repay whenever you are ready.

Spend

A card, and the bills paid from the same balance

Freeze it in the app the moment it goes missing. Light, airtime and school fees come out of the same money that is earning, so nothing has to be moved first.

  • One place

    Everything you do with money, on one screen

    Your balance, your savings, your loan limit and your bills — not four apps and three passwords. Open it and the whole picture is already there.

  • Grow

    Interest you can watch land

    Your balance earns every day and pays on the first of the month. The app shows you what you earned and for which days — not a rounded figure at the end.

  • Borrow

    A limit you already qualify for

    Because we can see your savings, there is no form and no guarantor. Take what you need, keep earning on the rest, and repay whenever you are ready.

  • Spend

    A card, and the bills paid from the same balance

    Freeze it in the app the moment it goes missing. Light, airtime and school fees come out of the same money that is earning, so nothing has to be moved first.

  • Central Bank of Nigeria crestCBN MFB licenceLicensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria
  • Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation logoNDIC insuredDeposits insured
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria sealSEC NigeriaInvestments regulated
  • 480,000+Customers saving with us

Rates

Every rate we pay, and every rate we charge

One page, no tiers you have to qualify for, and no rate that quietly drops after your first three months.

Paid on the first working day of every month.

Flex Savings
Withdraw any time
12%
Target Savings
Until the date you set
16%
Business Savings
Withdraw any time
12%

Last reviewed 1 August 2026. Lending rates are on the reducing balance.

See the full rate card

Borrow

Borrow against your savings, not instead of them

Up to 70% of what you have saved, in under three minutes. The rest keeps earning at its own rate while you hold the loan.

  • No form, no guarantor and nobody to visit
  • Repay early and you pay less — no penalty
  • No arrangement fee and no insurance we added for you
₦200,000
₦20,000₦2,000,000
Over

You hand back

₦242,000

Interest, total
₦42,000
A month
₦40,333.33
Rate
3.5% a month

3.5% a month on the amount you take, for as long as you hold it.

Invest

Put your money to work at up to 24% a year

Three ways in, from ₦25,000. Each one says what it pays, how long your money is tied up, and what can go wrong.

Compare all three

Fixed Deposit

Lend the bank your money for a fixed term at a rate agreed on day one.

22%a year for 365 days

₦500,000 placed₦610,000at maturity
Term
90, 180 or 365 days
Minimum
₦50,000

Your capital is insured by the NDIC. Break it early and you earn 8% instead.

Treasury Note

Hold Federal Government paper through us, in units you can afford.

19.4%a year at the last auction

Last eight auctions
Term
91 to 364 days
Minimum
₦100,000

The rate is set at auction and moves. What you are quoted on the day is what you get.

Agric Fund

Fund vetted farms and processors across the middle belt.

24%a year, paid at harvest

Payouts, last six harvests
Term
6 or 9 months
Minimum
₦25,000

Not a deposit and not NDIC insured. A bad season can return less than you put in.

Agents

Somebody who takes cash, in your own market

Because most of this country still gets paid in notes, and an app cannot count them for you.

1,916agents across 28 states
  • Open your account
  • Take cash in and pay cash out
  • Sort out a problem in person

Run a shop? Become an agent and earn a commission on every deposit, withdrawal and account you open.

KanoAbujaIbadanLagosPort Harcourt

Every pin is a town with at least one agent. The lines are the trunk the money moves along.

Where the agents are

A bank that understands a shop is not a company, it is somebody’s afternoon.

Business

Four things a trading business actually needs

38,400+ shops, stalls, salons and workshops bank with us. Open an account with your CAC certificate and a director’s ID.

A business account

Keep trading money apart from your own and earn 12% a year on the balance.

12% p.a.

Working capital

Buy stock now and repay as it sells, on a schedule that matches your season.

Up to ₦5m

Asset finance

Take the freezer, the generator or the grinder today and pay it off monthly.

18 months

Cooperative lending

Borrow as a registered group with the group standing behind the loan.

From 8 members

Customers

What 480,000 people came here to do

“I used to break my savings every time I needed to restock. Now I borrow against it, the savings keep earning, and I pay back after the goods sell.”

Ngozi O.Fabric trader, Balogun Market, Lagos

“The agent is two streets from my shop. I drop my takings there in the evening and it shows in the app before I get home.”

Musa B.Provisions shop owner, Kano

“I set a target for my daughter's fees in January and did not think about it again. The money was there in September.”

Amaka N.Secondary school teacher, Enugu
customers
480,000+
agents in 28 states
1,916
top rate we pay
22%
licensed and trading
9 years

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CitadeleCapitals app

Your bank, your savings and your loan limit. All in your pocket.

Free on iPhone and Android. Open an account with your BVN and an ID in about five minutes.

Or find an agent near you

Licensed by the CBN · Deposits insured by NDIC