New Business Ethiopia

As oppose to the push by the international financial institutions, a new study by the renowned professor of Economics at the Addis Ababa University, Alemayehu Geda advices Ethiopian government to not to rush to banking sector liberalization.

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has closed all banks branches in Tigray Region of Ethiopia following “robbery by the armed group, Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF)”.

The profit of all the 16 private banks in Ethiopia for the first time exceed the profit of the state owned giant Commercial bank of Ethiopia during the budget year concluded June 30, 2020.

BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – They say every challenge brings opportunities. For the past few months we have been listening how COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic can be catastrophic to not only in the health of the people of this planet but also in social and economy of the world. Some fear that it will lead the […]

The total capital of bank in Ethiopia has increased by around 8% to 85.7 billion birr (around $3.1 billion at the prevailing exchange rate) at the end of last Ethiopian fiscal year ended June 2018.

By Andualem Sisay Gessesse – Djibouti – Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), which reopened its branch in Djibouti 18 months ago, is still struggling to make profit.

A new report predicts double digit growth of Ethiopia’s banking industry. Ethiopia’s commercial banking sector will post a steady expansion over 2017, with both loan and deposit growth continuing on a strong upward trend, according to Business Monitor International (BMI) latest report on banking industry of Ethiopia.