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Good morning! 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
Good morning! 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
Good morning. Pour the buna. 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
Good morning. Pour the buna. The exchange opened this morning with five equities on the board for the first time. That alone is worth noting before anything else. Then the rest of the week’s news: Ethiopia made real progress on its debt. Not a final settlement, not a clean slate, but a direction the market
Good morning. Pour the buna. If last week was about a number, a billion birr cleared in a single week, this week was about a question that sits underneath every number: where is the money going to come from? And the answer Ethiopia gave, over and over, in announcement after announcement, was the same. From
Good morning. Pour the buna. The numbers this week pulled in two directions at once, which is becoming the signature of this moment. On the trading floor, Ethiopia’s capital market crossed a line it has been walking toward for two years. On the kitchen table, the cost of putting protein on a plate kept climbing.
Good morning. Pour the buna. This week the menu is heavy on the things that hit your wallet directly, a record budget, inflation creeping back up, new number plates, and a passport you can soon apply for without queuing. Banks are being told to brace for more competition, farmers are being handed a new way
Good morning! For a year, the story of Ethiopia’s capital market has been a domestic one. Local banks listed, local brokers got licensed, tens of thousands of local shareholders learned what a share even is. This week the door swung outward. Nigeria’s United Capital became the first foreign institution ever licensed to run an investment
Good morning! The biggest company on the Ethiopian Securities Exchange just became its newest tradable name. Ethio Telecom completed its listing this week, with 96 percent of its shareholders verified and now free to buy and sell. That alone would make a busy Monday, but the week kept stacking plates. The Council of Ministers cleared
Happy Arsenal Fans’ Week 🙂 The week, the streets, and the media were all about Arsenal and if you’re an Arsenal fan, congratulations. Let’s just hope you don’t have to wait another “adult lifetime” for the next trophy. Anyway, back to this week’s business and economic wrap-up. Diplomacy & International Relations EU Lifts Ethiopia Visa
Good morning! The ESX spent the week upgrading its own architecture. Fee caps on new listings, lower block trade costs, revised OTC rules that finally let banks and pension funds into the debt market, and Abay Bank joining the registration queue: this exchange is not waiting for the market to mature on its own, it
Good morning! Siinqee and First Addis joined the ESX as trading members six and seven, the pipeline of investment banks now reads like a queue rather than a wishlist. But while the second engine of Ethiopia’s economy keeps revving up on the trading floor, the first one is still carrying the debt: USD 51.8 billion
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