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- Tuesday 14 May 2013
May 13, 2013 (JUBA) – Disgraced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in South Sudan on Monday to open a new bank, marking a rare return to the financial world since his career was derailed by a (...)
- Thursday 19 July 2012
By Julius N. Uma
July 18, 2012 (JUBA) - In a bid to promote international banking, KCB Bank of South Sudan has officially launched diaspora banking, an initiative targeting South Sudanese nationals currently living outside the world’s (...)
- Monday 21 May 2012
May 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Central Bank of Sudan’s (CBS) decision to allow Forex bureaus in the country to use their own rates instead of the official one in currency transactions has attracted criticism from senior officials (...)
- Friday 5 April 2013
April 4, 2012 (JUBA) - The governor of South Sudan’s Central Equatoria state, Clement Wani Konga, said on Thursday that the government should stick to mobilising more internally generated resources rather than depending on oil revenues (...)
- Sunday 15 April 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 14, 2012(ADDIS ABABA) - One of Ethiopia’s leading banking groups United Bank is poised to open its first branch outside Ethiopia in South Sudan’s capital Juba, according to a release from the bank.
The new (...)
- Friday 18 May 2012
May 17, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Foreign exchange (Forex) bureaus in Sudan will be able to buy and sell currencies using their own exchange rate away from the official one, it was announced today. FILE - An official leaves after a news (...)
- Monday 19 November 2012
November 18, 2012 (JUBA/NAIROBI) - Equity Bank Group last week launched a partnership with China Union Pay; an initiative that will allow Union Pay card holders make transactions from the bank’s Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) and sale (...)
- Saturday 3 November 2012
November 2, 2012 (JUBA) – An agreement between private financial institutions and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has “unlocked $7 millions for lending” to South Sudanese farmers, the US embassy said in a press (...)
- Friday 3 August 2012
August 2, 2102 (JUBA) - Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) South Sudan has announced the appointment of Jashinto Pakon Genye as the new chairman of the bank’s board of
directors, replacing Musa Ndeto, who becomes the KCB Group chairman. (...)
- Thursday 29 November 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
November 28, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – Remittances sent to poor nations from family and friends living abroad has increased from $3.5 billion in 1990 to $27 billion in 2011, according to a new United Nations report.
The (...)
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