Thursday 11 October 2012

Standard Chartered to Invest $100m in Nigeria, Others

The Standard Chartered Bank said yesterday that it plans to invest over $100 million on 110 new branches in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria alongside five other core markets over the next three years.
Speaking at its inaugural Africa Investor Day on the group’s aspirations for the region, Diana Layfield, Standard Chartered’s Chief Executive Officer for Africa, said the bank has set out its vision for the African franchise over the next five years against a backdrop of how far the business has travelled to date.
She said: “At $1.34billion in 2011, Africa currently accounts for 8 percent of the group’s income. Our performance has been sustained by a large number of different growth engines with a very healthy balance sheet across our major geographies.

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