In March 2025, Ethiopia’s Central Bank issued a Business Proclamation 136 ushering in the liberalisation of the country’s banking sector through allowing foreign institutional and foreign...
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Julians Amboko
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Nation Media Group
Stanbic Bank says it is ready and able to make a start-up operation in Ethiopia as it explores ways of circumventing a rule that caps foreign ownership at 49 percent when a lender enters that market through an acquisition.
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