Cavmont Bank

Cavmont Bank
Type Public: LuSE: CCHZ
Industry Financial Services
Founded 2004
Headquarters Lusaka, Zambia
Key people Willa Mun'gomba
Chairman
Johan Minnaar
Managing Director
Products Loans, Checking, Savings, Investments, Debit Cards
Revenue Aftertax: US$816,654+ (ZMK:4.125 billion) (2010)
Total assets US$44+ million (ZMK:222.5 billion) (2010)
Employees 206+ (2011)
Website Homepage

Cavmont Bank Limited, whose complete name is Cavmont Capital Bank Limited (CCBL), but which is commonly referred to as Cavmont Bank, is a commercial bank in Zambia. It is one of the commercial banks in the country, licensed by the Bank of Zambia, the national banking regulator.[1]

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Overview

CCBL provides an array of banking services including in the areas of community banking, retail banking, investment, merchant and corporate banking. As of December 2010, the bank was a retail bank with total assets valued in excess of US$44 million (ZMK:222.5 billion), with shareholders' equity of approximately US$4.8 million (ZMK:24.5 billion).[2] The bank employed 206 people in 2011.[3]

History

The Bank was established in 2004, when Cavmont Merchant Bank Limited and New Capital Bank Plc., both of which had been established in 1992, merged to form one universal bank.[4]

Ownership

CCBL is a 100% subsidiary of Cavmont Capital Holdings Zambia Plc. (CCHZ). The investors in CCHZ, and therefore in CCBL, include Capricorn Investment Holdings (CIH), a financial conglomerate with investment interests in three Southern African countries: Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. CIH owns controlling interests in Bank Gaborone in Botswana and Bank Windhoek in Namibia, in addition to its minority shareholding in Cavmont Capital Holdings Zambia Plc. The stock of the holding company, CCHZ, is Listed on the Lusaka Stock Exchange (LuSE), where it trades under the symbol: CCHZ. The shareholding in CCHZ and therefore in CCBL is depicted in the table below:[5]

Cavmont Bank Stock Ownership
Rank Name of Owner Percentage Ownership
1. Capricorn Investment Holdings 44.2
2. Oakley Enterprises
3. Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO)
4. Zambia National Pension Scheme Authority
5. Paul Cave (an Individual)
6. Others
Total 100

Branch Network

As of December 2011, Cavmont Bank maintains a network of fifteen (15) branches at the following locations:[6]

  1. Main Office - Anchor House, Lusaka
  2. Garden Branch - Lusaka
  3. Lusaka Square Branch - Sapele Road, Lusaka
  4. Kalingalinga Branch - Kamloops Road, Lusaka
  5. Tazara House Branch - Tazara House, Lusaka
  6. Chipata Branch - Lunkwakwa Road, Chipata
  7. Mansa Branch - Mansa
  8. Kasama Branch - Independence Road, Kasama[7]
  9. Mbala Branch - Mbala
  10. Mpulungu Branch - Mpulungu
  11. Solwezi Branch - Chingola-Solwezi Road, Solwezi
  12. Ndola Branch - President Avenue, Ndola
  13. Kitwe Branch - Ebenezer Center, Kitwe
  14. Chingola Branch - Kitwe Road, Chingola
  15. Mufumbwe Branch - Mufumbwe

The Capricorn Group

Cavmont Capital Bank is a member of the Capricorn Group of Companies under the umbrella of the parent company Capricorn Investment Holdings, a Namibia-based investment conglomerate.[8] The Group has investment interests in southern Africa, as outlined in the graphic below:[9]

  • Zambia
  • Cavmont Capital Holdings Zambia Plc. - 44.5% Shareholding
  • Cavmont Capital Bank - 44.5% Shareholding
  • Namibia
  • Bank Windhoek Holdings Limited - 73% Shareholding
  • Bank Windhoek Limited - 73% Shareholding
  • BW finance Limited - 73% Shareholding
  • Welwitschia Nammic Insurance Brokers Limited - 56.7% Shareholding
  • Namib Bou Limited - 73% Shareholding
  • Santam Namibia Limited - 18.3%Shareholding
  • Sanlam Namibia Holdings Limited - 21.5% Shareholding
  • Nammic Financial Services Holdings - 100% Shareholding
  • GH Group Employee Share Trust - 16.4% Shareholding
  • Botswana
  • Capricorn Investment Holdings (Botswana) Limited - 94.9% Shareholding
  • Bank Gaborone Limited - 94.9% Shareholding
  • Ellwood Insurance Brokers limited - 94.9% Shareholding
  • SmartSwitch Botswana Limited - 47.5% Shareholding
  • Capricorn Asset Management Limited - 75.2% Shareholding
  • Capricorn Capital Limited - 100% Shareholding
  • Cyan ES Limited - 100% Shareholding

Directors

There are eight members on the Board of Directors of Cavmont Bank: [10]

  1. Willa Mun'gomba - Chairman
  2. Koos Brandt - Vice Chairman
  3. Paul A. D. Cave - Director
  4. Chitupa Muzariri - Director
  5. Thomas F. Ryan - Director
  6. Johan Swanepoel - Director
  7. Charity C. Mwansa - Company Secretary
  8. Johan Minnaar - Managing Director

Management team

The Managing Director of CCBL is Johan Minnaar. He is assisted by twelve (12) other managers in supervising the day-to-day activities of the bank.[11]

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