Equity Group has announced the appointment of Mr. Yves Cuypers as the first Equity Group Regional Director in charge of the Central and Southern Africa Region.
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Equity Banque Commercial du Congo (Equity BCDC) has launched its new identity, following the successful merger of Equity Bank Congo (EBC) and Banque Commerciale...
Equity Afia, the medical franchise of Equity Group Foundation (EGF) has opened another medical centre in Murang'a County. This brings the total number of its ou...
Equity Bank has been named among the top-three Tier 1 banks based on digital user experience analysis by a recent customer survey conducted by Kenya Bankers' As...
Equity Uganda, a subsidiary of Equity Group Holdings, has today unveiled a new brand identity in line with the Group's ongoing transformation journey. The new i...
Equity Group has announced that it has crossed the Ksh. 1 trillion ($10 billion) balance sheet mark after the successful migration of BCDC Bank to Equity’s Fina...
Equity Group Holdings Plc has announced the appointment of Christopher Newson as a Non-Executive Director to its Board.
Christopher is a career banker with o...
Equity Bank has been listed at number 7 among the top 10 Banks in Africa in 2020 with a score of 5.82 in the overall category of the best performing banks. This...
Dr. James Mwangi has joined a league of 14 global CEOs who have committed to champion cross–sector collaboration in the creation of a purpose-first economy.
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92 scholars from the Equity Leadership Program (ELP) have been admitted to 43 Global universities making it the largest single year cohort for the program.
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Erastus Mwencha has been appointed as the new board chairperson of Equity Bank Kenya. He takes over from Prof Isaac Macharia who retires. Professor Macharia, a ...
Equity Bank Kenya has announced that it has set up a universal number that its employees will use to contact its customers and other stakeholders.
The unive...
Equity Group Holdings PLC has posted a Ksh. 9.1 Billion net profit for the half year results for the period ended 30th June 2020. This reflects a 24% decline in...
Equity Bank has partnered with Crown Healthcare to enable SMEs in the medical sector to acquire medical equipment.
Under the agreement, the bank will provide...
Equity Afia has opened two new medical centres in Ruaka and Githurai to complement the existing medical services offered by public and private health facilities...
IFC has announced that it has advanced a Ksh. 5B loan to Equity Bank Kenya to support Kenyan SMEs during the COVID-19 crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic has crea...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced a a $50 million loan to Equity Bank Kenya to help it increase working capital and trade-related lendin...
Equity Afia has opened two clinics in Kakamega and Meru Counties, bringing the total number of clinics within its franchise network to 15. The two medical centr...
Polycarp Igathe has rejoined Kenyan financial company, Equity Group, as the Chief Commercial Officer 7 months after quitting to join Vivo Energy. In his new rol...
Equity Bank and Kenya Airways have announced an extension of their discounted partnership for all Equity card customers that will see them enjoy a 20% discount ...
Students who are beneficiaries of the Equity Bank Wings To Fly initiative performed well in the 2019 KCSE exams. 24 of the students managed to score a mean grad...
Equity Bank has partnered with Kenya Airways to give the bank’s customers a 30% discount on flight bookings. The promotion will run till the 6th of January 202...
The Bloomberg Businessweek has honored Dr. James Mwangi, Equity Group’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, by selecting him to be among the 2019 Blo...
Equity Bank has received this year’s Visa Top Acquirer Award during the Visa 2019 Awards ceremony held in Nairobi. This is the third year in a row that the bank...
Equity Bank emerged with a triple win at the 2019 Financial Times Banker’s Bank of the Year annual awards which were held in London. They won the Bank of the Ye...
Equity Group has planted 40,000 indigenous and exotic tree seedlings in Meru University as part of its 35 year anniversary celebrations.
The tree planting wa...
Equity Group's diaspora remittances has hit Ksh. 100 billion in the nine months of 2019 to September. This has helped boost the company's forex trading income t...
The Equity Group has announced a third quarter profit after tax up of Ksh. 17.46 Billion which is a 10% rise from the previous year which was Ksh. 15.83 Billio...
The CIO100 Awards have announced that this year, 150 out of 384 companies have been shortlisted for the annual IT excellence awards. The award covers six East A...
Equity Bank Kenya and AGCO have signed a partnership agreement to enable customers buying Massey Ferguson tractors and accompanying implements to access 80% fin...
Equity Bank has won the Global SME Finance Award in the Platinum Category of SME Bank of the Year – Africa, at the IFC Global SME Finance Awards that were held...
Equity Group has announced that it plans to acquire a controlling stake in Banqué Commerciale du Congo (BCDC), which operates in Democratic Republic of Congo (D...
Equity has announced the recruitment of John Wilson the head of financial institutions in East and Southern Africa at the IFC as the Group’s Chief Operating Off...
Equity Group has announced that it has registered a Ksh. 12 billion net profit for the period ended June 30th 2019. This is an increase from the Ksh. 10.9 billi...
Equity Bank and KCB Group have won awards at the 2019 Euromoney Awards for Excellence. The awards they received are Africa’s Best Digital Bank 2019 and Africa's...
Equity Savings and Credit Cooperative Society has been named as the Most Efficient Sacco in the country. The sacco was honored during the International Cooperat...
Kenya’s KCB Bank and Equity Bank have emerged winners in the African Banker Awards 2019. KCB Bank won the prize for innovation and Equity Bank for its CSR activ...
Equity is among Kenyan partners that have been signed up to the Young Africa Works initiative by Mastercard. Equity will deploy its banking infrastructure as we...
Equity Bank has announced that it has given out Ksh. 6.5 billion in loans to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as at the first quarter of 2019. This i...
Equity Bank has been given a license to operate in Ethiopia by the country’s regulator. As such the bank has set up a Commercial Representative Office in Addis ...
European Investment Bank has launched a new EUR 50 million (Ksh. 5.7 billion) agriculture sector financing programme. The Kenya Agriculture Value Chain Facility...
Equity Bank has invested over Ksh. 1 Billion to improve market access, capacity building and expansion of agricultural production value chain as of end of first...