Ecobank

Ecobank Transnational Inc.
Public Company
GSE: ETI
NSE: ETIT
BRVM: ETI
Industry Financial Services
Founded 1985
Headquarters 2365, Boulevard du Mono, B.P.3261, Lomé, Togo[1]
Key people
 Emmanuel Ikazoboh[2]
Chairman
Albert Essien
Group CEO[3]
Products Banking Services, Investments, Funds Transfer, Products and Services including pan-African Lending, Trade Services, Cash Management, Internet Banking, Value-chain Finance, Treasury Services, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking and Securities and Asset Management
Revenue IncreasePretax:US$2.003 million (End 2013)[4]
Total assets US$ 22.5 billion (End 2013 )
Number of employees
 19,565 (2014)
Slogan The Peoples Bank
Website Homepage

Ecobank, whose official name is Ecobank Transnational Inc. (ETI), but is also known as Ecobank Transnational, is a pan-African banking conglomerate, with banking operations in 36 African countries. It is the leading independent regional banking group in West Africa and Central Africa, serving wholesale and retail customers. It also maintains subsidiaries in Eastern Africa, as well as in Southern Africa. ETI has representative offices in Angola, China, Dubai, France, South Africa and in the United Kingdom.

Overview

ETI is a large financial services provider with offices in 39 countries around the world, and presence in 36 sub-Saharan countries. As of December 2012, ETI's customer base was estimated at 13.7 million, with 9.6 million (70.2%), located in Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation. At that time, the group's total assets were valued at US$20.0 billion, with shareholders' equity of US$2.176 billion.[5] ETI's branch network numbered 1,305, with 1,981 networked ATMs. The bank had 19,565 employees, in 39 countries, in Africa, Asia and Europe, at the end of March 2014.

Group network

As of June 2014, Ecobank Transnational had banking operations in 36 African countries, with representative offices in Angola, Beijing, Dubai, Ethiopia, South Africa and the United Kingdom:[6]

Ecobank 2013 Footprint

Ecobank Transnational has operational bank subsidiaries in the following countries, as of July 2013:

Africa
Outside Africa

History

ETI, a public limited liability company, was established as a bank holding company in 1985 under a private sector initiative spearheaded by the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce and Industry, with the support of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In the early 1980s the banking industry in West Africa was dominated by foreign and state-owned banks. There were hardly any commercial banks in West Africa owned and managed by the African private sector. ETI was founded with the objective of filling this vacuum.

The Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce promoted and initiated a project for the creation of a private regional banking institution in West Africa. In 1984, Ecopromotions S.A. was incorporated. Its founding shareholders raised the seed capital for the feasibility studies and the promotional activities leading to the creation of ETI.

In October 1985, ETI was incorporated with an authorised capital of US$100 million. The initial paid up capital of US$32 million was raised from over 1,500 individuals and institutions from West African countries. The largest shareholder was the ECOWAS Fund for Cooperation, Compensation and Development (ECOWAS Fund), the development finance arm of ECOWAS. A Headquarters’ Agreement was signed with the government of Togo in 1985 which granted ETI the status of an international organisation with the rights and privileges necessary for it to operate as a regional institution, including the status of a non-resident financial institution.

ETI has two specialised subsidiaries: Ecobank Development Corporation (EDC) and eProcess International (eProcess). EDC was incorporated with a broad mandate to develop Ecobank’s investment banking and advisory businesses throughout the countries where Ecobank operates. EDC operates brokerage houses on all 3 stock exchanges in West Africa and has obtained licences to operate on the two stock exchanges in Central Africa: the Douala Stock Exchange in Cameroon and the Libreville Exchange in Gabon. The mandate of eProcess is to manage the Group’s information technology function with a view to ultimately centralising the Group’s middle and back office operations to improve efficiency, service standards and reduce costs.[11]|

Subsidiaries

The Specialized subsidiary companies of Ecobank include the following: [12]

The Ecobank Nedbank alliance

With more than 1,500 branches in 35 countries, the Ecobank-Nedbank Alliance is the largest banking network in Africa. The alliance was formed in 2008 between the Ecobank Group and the Nedbank Group, one of South Africa's four largest financial services providers, with a growing footprint of operations across the Southern African Development Community.[13]

Ownership

The shares of Ecobank Transnational Inc., the parent company of Ecobank, are traded on three West African stock exchanges, namely: the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) and the BRVM stock exchange in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. [14] As of December 2012, the ten largest institutional shareholders in Ecobank Transnational are listed in the table below: [15]

Ten Largest Institutional Shareholders of Ecobank
Rank Shareholder Percentage Ownership
1STD NOMS TVL PTY LTD/RENAISSANCE DIRECT INVST18.69
2Ecowas Bank for Investment & Development (BIDC)6.21
3Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT)5.53
4Interlink Securities Limited4.86
5AFRICA INVST SUB 1 LTD4.41
6Bourse Regionale des Valeurs Mobilieres (BRVM)4.20
7IICMG SEC (STRUCTURED)3.36
8Blakeney Group III Limited 2.61
9GLG/HSBC-TRADING 2.36
10Metropolitan Trust Nigeria Limited1.72

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ecobank Transnational Inc. - Company Snapshot". alacrastore.com.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ "Ecobank board ousts CEO Thierry Tanoh, names deputy as head". businessdailyafrica.com.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ December 2012 Financial Highlights
  6. ↑ "allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Ecobank Increases Sub-Saharan Africa Offices to 35". allAfrica.com.
  7. ↑ "News and Events". ecobank.com.
  8. ↑ "allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Ecobank Opens in South Sudan". allAfrica.com.
  9. ↑ Ecobank Opening in Tanzania in January 2010
  10. ↑ Antersite. "African Financial Markets: Provider of African Business and Economy information and research". africanfinancialmarkets.com.
  11. ↑ "About Us". ecobank.com.
  12. ↑ Ecobank Specialized Subsidiaries
  13. ↑ About The Ecobank-Nedbank Alliance
  14. ↑ "Ecobank". ecobank.com.
  15. ↑ Shareholding In Ecobank Transnational

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