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Reserve Bank of Malawi Keeps Policy Rate at 25% as Inflation Ease in April

LILONGWE, Malawi, Capital Markets in Africa — Reserve Bank of Malawi Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) met on 29 April 2015 to review recent global and domestic economic developments, and decided to maintain the Policy Rate at 25 percent and Liquidity Reserve Requirement (LRR) at 15.5 percent. The Malawi real GDP growth is estimated at 5.4 percent in 2015 from the previous projection of 5.8 percent. The downward revision has been necessitated by a contraction in…

Nigeria’s Wema Bank raising $100 mln Tier II capital to grow loans

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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Wema Bank aims to complete a $100 million Tier II capital raising exercise by the second quarter of this year to fund its growing foreign currency loan portfolio, its chief financial officer said on Thursday. Tunde Mabawonku said the commercial lender also planned to start the process of raising fresh equity capital of between 30 billion naira ($151 million) to 40 billion naira, from strategic investors by the fourth quarter. Mabawonku…

Bank seeks to raise $10 mln via share sale in war-torn Somalia

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NAIROBI (Reuters) – International Bank of Somalia (IBS), one of only a handful of commercial banks operating in the war-torn country, wants to raise $10 million in a public share offering that would be the first of its kind since civil war broke out in 1991.Somalia does not have a stock exchange and most banking is done on informal basis through money transfer firms, but IBS Chief Executive Hassan Yusuf said those ploughing money into…

Egypt’s CIB eyeing Citigroup’s retail operations

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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Commercial International Bank (CIB) said on Wednesday Citigroup had opened its books for a due diligence process that could lead to the purchase of its retail portfolio.Citigroup said it is pulling out of consumer banking in 11 markets, including Japan and Egypt, as the U.S. bank with the biggest international business looks to cut persistently high costs.The third-largest U.S. bank, built with a series of acquisitions spanning back to the 1980s,…

South Africa’s Standard Bank posts flat 2014 earnings

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank by assets, reported a 1 percent rise in full-year profits on Thursday, roughly in line with expectations, thanks to increases in lending, fees and trading. Stripping out its London-based division, in which Standard Bank is selling a controlling stake to China’s ICBC, headline earnings rose 20 percent. Standard Bank raised its dividend 12 percent to 598 cents per share. The lender said headline earnings per share (EPS)…

Moody’s change Banco Angolano de Investimentos’ Ba3 deposit ratings to negative from stable

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Limassol, March 04, 2015 — Moody’s Investors Service has today changed the outlook to negative from stable on the Ba3 deposit ratings of Banco Angolano de Investimentos, S.A. Concurrently, Moody’s affirmed the bank’s Ba3 deposit ratings and E+ standalone bank financial strength rating (BFSR), which is equivalent to a b1 baseline credit assessment. The E+ BFSR maintains a stable outlook. The rating action on Banco Angolano de Investimentos follows the change in the outlook to…

Nigeria’s bank ratings placed on CreditWatch negative

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Standard & Poor’s placed the ‘BB-‘ long-term issuer credit rating on Access Bank, First Bank of Nigeria, Guaranty Trust Bank, Stanbic IBTC Bank and Zenith Bank on CreditWatch with negative implications, following similar action on Nigeria’s sovereign ratings. It expected the Nigerian banking sector to face difficulties in 2015. Also, it said that low global oil prices, the pressure on the Nigerian naira, the upcoming presidential elections and the regulatory changes are raising credit risks,…

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