By Allan Olingo Two years ago, at a breakfast in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, hosted by Kenya-based Equity Bank, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said his country...
Pan-African bank Ecobank Transnational Incorporated has named Ade Ayeyemi as its new group chief executive, it said on Monday. The 52-year-old, currently head of Citigroup’s sub-Saharan...
Kenya’s audit firm, RSM Ashvir, says one of the youngest finance houses, Equity Bank, registered best returns on deployed assets. According to media reports, Equity’s returns...
Ecobank Nigeria, a subsidiary of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) has signed a 10 year partnership with e-payment service provider, Mastercard for the issuance of debit cards...
Small and medium-sized enterprises in Africa are crying out not just for financing but also management and operational expertise to enable them to grow a regional...
Pan-African bank, Ecobank Nigeria Ltd and global payment services giants Western Union yesterday announced a deal that would make it possible for the bank’s account holders...
Ecobank, whose rapid expansion to 35 African countries was considered by some to be the Pan-African Dream, needs to devote as much attention to governance as...
The board of Ecobank removed its chief executive, Thierry Tanoh, on Tuesday following months of turmoil at one of the biggest financial institutions in sub-Saharan Africa....
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil West Africa’s insurance companies and commercial banks are setting up subsidiaries in East Africa to take advantage of the oil...
(Bloomberg) – Ecobank Transnational Inc. is seeking a new investment banking chief as Africa’s most geographically diverse lender hires people across the continent to tap growth....
(Reuters) – Nigeria’s stock market regulator said on Thursday it had lifted a suspension on Ecobank from capital market activities, imposed last month because of irregularities...
(Globe Newswire) – Ecobank, the leading pan-African banking group, has been recognized with a Model Bank award from Celent, the financial services, research and consulting firm,...
(Reuters) – Ecobank Kenya has received a US$25 million capital injection from its parent company to help it expand and address the rising cost of financing...
(Reuters) – Pan-African Ecobank Transnational is near the end of its geographic expansion across Africa and now plans to focus on organic growth to be among...
(Reuters) – Pan African bank Ecobank Transnational Inc., said on Thursday it had acquired 100 percent of Ghana’s Trust Bank Ltd in a US$135 million deal...
A branch of Ecobank in Nairobi, Kenya. As the aircraft floats across the landscape of West Africa, one notices ruler-straight earth roads stretching as far as...
