Nedbank targets West Africa in business push with Ecobank
Nedbank, the biggest shareholder in Ecobank, has started offering wealth products to the pan-African company’s clients in Ivory Coast
Nedbank is expanding its wealth business into West Africa’s French-speaking countries in a venture with Ecobank Transnational to target a region that is increasingly eyed by lenders looking to benefit from faster economic growth. Nedbank, the biggest shareholder in Ecobank with a 21% stake, started offering wealth products to the pan-African company’s clients in Ivory Coast and wants to replicate the service in Senegal, executive for Ecobank Investment, Mark Weston, said on Wednesday in an interview in Abidjan. Benin and Burkina Faso may follow thereafter. “If we’re going to get value out of our relationship with Ecobank, we really have to explore what we can do here,” Weston said in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital. “Part of that is exploring where we can add value” for Ecobank’s customers in more than 30 countries. Ivory Coast’s economy has expanded by an annual average of more than 8% since 2012 while the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is forecasting growth of more than 6% in ...
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