According to Godstime Iwenekhai, head of Listings Regulation Department of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
“ Listing of Additional Shares Arising from the Scheme of Merger between Access Bank Plc and Diamond Bank Plc Further to the Market Bulletin of 20 March 2019, with Reference Number: NSE/LARD/LRD/MB19/19/03/20, wherein the market was notified of the suspension of trading in the shares of Diamond Bank Plc, following the Court Sanction of the Scheme of Merger (Scheme) between Access Bank Plc and Diamond Bank Plc, Dealing Members are hereby notified that the National Council of The Nigerian Stock Exchange on Friday, 29 March 2019 approved the listing of 6,617,253,991 ordinary shares of 50 Kobo each of Access Bank Plc resulting from the Scheme.
Consequently, the resultant Scheme shares of 6,617,253,991 ordinary shares of 50 Kobo each of Access Bank Plc, were listed on Monday, 1 April 2019, while the entire 23,160,388,968 ordinary shares of Diamond Bank Plc were delisted from the Daily Official List of The Exchange on Monday, 1 April 2019. With the listing of the additional 6,617,253,991 ordinary shares arising from the Scheme, the total issued and fully paid up shares of Access Bank Plc has increase from 28,927,971,631 ordinary shares to 35,545,225,622 ordinary shares of 50 Kobo each.”