CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICA

epresentative offices in Beijing, Dubai, Johannesburg, London, and Luanda. The stock of
ETI is traded on three African stock exchanges: the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), the
Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the BRVM stock exchange in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. ETI
had US$ 21.5 billion in assets at the end of September 2013.
Figure 10: Ecobank’s African Locations, 2011
Business Segments
The Ecobank Group is a full-service bank focused on Middle Africa. It provides wholesale,
retail, investment, and transactional banking services to governments, financial institutions,
multinationals, local companies, SMEs, and individuals. Ecobank’s services are delivered by
three customer-focused business segments, Corporate Bank, Domestic Bank, and Ecobank
Capital, all of which are supported by an integrated IT platform operated by eProcess, the
group’s technology subsidiary. Corporate Bank provides financial solutions to global and
regional corporations, public corporations, financial institutions, and international
organisations. Products focus on pan-African lending, trade services, cash management,
Internet banking, and value chain finance. Domestic Bank provides convenient, accessible,
and reliable financial products and services to retail, local corporate, public sector, and
microfinance customers, leverages an extensive branch and ATM network, as well as
mobile, Internet, and remittance banking platforms. Ecobank Capital provides treasury,
corporate finance and investment banking, and securities and asset management solutions
to corporate and governmental customers. Ecobank also operates within Ecobank Capital a
research team based on the ground in key markets that provides unique information
support capabilities.
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