Defending a 5-year banking relationship under trust erosion — and re-engineering it into a long-term growth partnership.
A flagship export client (₦31M+ annual revenue contribution, ₦390M active credit exposure, 220 employees) was facing operational trust erosion, competitor financing pressure, and expansion needs. We built a Trust Restoration Program, structured a ₦180M growth facility on export-cycle repayments, deployed FX hedging, and expanded share of wallet through an ecosystem play.
The numbers that moved.
Operational payroll failures had eroded trust in a 5-year relationship. Competitors were circling with cheaper financing. The client needed expansion capital structured around export cash flows, not standard loan products. FX exposure threatened export receipts.
Defend trust first. Secure expansion second. Deepen relationship third. Scale ecosystem fourth. A dual-sided operational review identified systemic alerting failures across People, Process, Technology, Monitoring and Governance.
- Trust Restoration Program: CommandBridge Operations Hub, SentinelFlow automation, proactive compensation model, executive communication cadence.
- Expansion Capital Blueprint: ₦180M growth facility with milestone-based drawdowns and export-cycle aligned repayments.
- Global Currency Shield: forward contracts, trade risk protection, export receipt optimisation.
- Ecosystem Expansion: Producer Advance Network, Trade Finance, Executive Continuity Protection, Supply Chain Enablement.
- OrbitCRM-driven client engagement and automated event management to scale portfolio coverage without operational drag.
- Relationship retained against active competitor encroachment.
- Expansion financing secured and aligned with the client's real cash flows.
- Operational risk materially reduced through monitoring and governance fixes.
- Share of wallet expanded across financing, FX hedging and trade services.
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