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Zemen Bank Reports 10.2 Billion Birr Profit, Assets Reach 116 Billion Birr
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Capital MarketECMA Registers Additional 3.88 Million Wegagen Bank Shares, Total Reaches 10.09 Million
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BusinessEthio Telecom Revenue Climbs 33.2% to ETB 215.8 Billion, But Annual Report Reveals Key Growth Targets Missed
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TechAI-Driven Lender Optasia Plans Ethiopia Expansion, Targets Underserved Credit Market
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BusinessLottery Service Warns No Licensed Betting Operator Exists in Ethiopia
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EconomyNational Bank of Ethiopia Allocates USD 500 Million for First-Quarter FX Auctions
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Monday Breakfast Stories
The week in Ethiopian markets, over buna.
Who Gets In
If there is one question stitching this week together, it is a simple one: who gets let in, and on what terms. The central bank drew a calendar around the dollar and slammed a door on virtual assets. Three fintechs opened a credit line to borrowers no bank would touch, a coffee platform
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The Net Comes Down
For nearly three years, Ethiopian banks lived with a ceiling over their heads and a net beneath the economy. Last week, both came down. The National Bank of Ethiopia scrapped the credit growth cap entirely, raised its policy rate for the first time, and handed the job of managing money to markets. A
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The Ethiopian fiscal year ended last week, and the numbers came in like report cards nobody wanted to hide. Record exports. Record FDI. Record budget. Record premiums, record profits, record payment volumes. And while the government was closing the books on 2025/26, the Ethiopian Securities Exchange was quietly opening new
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Bank of Abyssinia Becomes Sixth Company Listed on Ethiopian Securities Exchange
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ECMA Registers Additional 3.88 Million Wegagen Bank Shares, Total Reaches 10.09 Million
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Ethio Telecom Revenue Climbs 33.2% to ETB 215.8 Billion, But Annual Report Reveals Key Growth Targets Missed
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AI-Driven Lender Optasia Plans Ethiopia Expansion, Targets Underserved Credit Market
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Deep Dive
Longer reads on the forces behind the numbers.
- Deep Dive7 min readThe Role of Capital Markets in Ethiopia’s Economic TransformationFor the past five decades, banks have been a one-stop shop for Ethiopian businesses to get financing. Before this, Ethiopia had a short-lived stock market in the 1960s and early 1970s called the Share Dealing Group, which operated under the imperial regime. Following the Derg regime, the financial system that followed consolidated almost entirely aroundRead
- Deep Dive12 min readWalking the Quantitative Tightrope as Ethiopia’s New Monetary Framework Enters a New EraEthiopia has dismantled the last of its emergency controls and handed the economy to a market-based framework held together by interlocking parts. Every piece now depends on every other piece and the National Bank of Ethiopia must keep all of them balanced at once, in high wind. In August 1974, Philippe Petit stepped onto aRead
- Capital Market5 min readFrom an Undersubscribed IPO to 900 Birr: The Short, Sharp Journey of TELEEthio Telecom shares are trading at 900 birr on Monday, up 5.63% on the day and three times the 300 birr price at which the government sold them to the public less than two years ago. For a stock that has traded on the Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) for barely six weeks, TELE has alreadyRead
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