06/06/2018
These 16 African banks had the highest return on equity in 2017
Nigeria's tier-1 GTB and Stanbic bank beat other financial institutions in Africa to post highest return on equity of 30% and 29% respectively for the year 2017.
Retail Banking
06/05/2018
Fidelity Bank To Give More Benefits To Small Businesses
She noted that Fidelity Bank has unique products and services that meet the needs of SMEs and the bank is ready to offer any form of assistance to businesses no matter their challenges.
06/04/2018
Ecobank named Africa’s best and most innovative
Its mobile banking app, which has now been downloaded by more than ve million people, took the prize for innovation in banking
06/01/2018
One of Ghana’s retail banks has launched a borderless financial product
The Bank’s strategy will be underpinned by robust risk management together with high levels of automations, to enhance the compliance and risk functions and drive customer insights.
05/31/2018
Nigeria’s Piggybank.ng raises $1.1M, announces group investment product
The startup looks to grow clients across younger Nigerians and the country’s informal saving groups
05/31/2018
Equity CEO Mwangi voted best African banker
His bank has seen impressive growth through a series of innovations and diversified investment channels away from consumer loans
05/30/2018
Ecobank Named Africa's Best Bank
Ecobank enjoyed a 40% increase in customer numbers during 2017 and the bank aims to serve 100 million customers by the end of 2020.
05/28/2018
Keystone Bank returns to profitability
The Keystone mobile banking application boasts of several unique features such as the ability to bank with zero data, the Oxygen Chat Banking and several others that have re positioned the bank to compete effectively in the sector.
05/28/2018
Stanbic IBTC Bank Introduces Savings Product
The simple fact is that a business owner ought to draw a salary or allowance from the business and this should go to a personal account.
05/25/2018
Nigerian Bank leads in cash management and trade finance in Deutsche Bank Awards
The award, according to Deutsche Bank, is in recognition of Stanbic IBTC Bank’s consistent improvements in the quality of both commercial and treasury payments.
05/23/2018
Union Bank introduces Robotics to power banking operations
RPA technology makes use of robots which are software tools developed to simplify business process delivery.
05/22/2018
Bank of Khartoum Benchmarks as the leading Bank in Sudan
The Bank registered a growth of %96 from December 2016 in its assets reaching SDG 34.5 billion in 2017.
05/18/2018
Equity banks nets Sh6b profit in 3 months
Releasing the results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018
05/18/2018
Kenya: GAB Bags Best Islamic Bank Award
This is also motivation for us to continue working hard this year and improve service delivery to our customers since we would not be winning all these awards without their support.
05/18/2018
Standard Bank And ICBC Celebrate 10 Years Of Partnership
As the world’s largest commercial bank and the largest commercial bank in Africa, ICBC and Standard Bank are actively exploring the use of RMB across Africa.
05/17/2018
BoG Says Ghana's Financial Sector Stable, Strong.
The day's forum that assembled players in the financial sector to share views on critical issues relating to business
05/16/2018
Moroccan Bank Strongly Making Inroads into West African States
This comes after becoming one of the biggest lenders in Morocco.
05/16/2018
The best of the best: RBI 2018 Global Awards winners revealed
It was a good night for Emirates NBD with three awards and for Royal Bank of Canada with two wins.
05/16/2018
EcoBank Launches Agency Banking in Liberia
The Managing Director disclosed that the new service will immensely create job opportunities for many and enhance the existing businesses of their partners.
05/15/2018
Equity ranked best bank in Kenya
Fewer loan defaulters, lower employee costs and increased earnings from processing loans helped Equity Bank shrug off effects of the cap on lending rates that hurt its rivals.