{"id":197737,"date":"2025-05-09T06:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivorian-lending-bici-reports-23-percent-first-quarter-profit-growth\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T06:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:32:47","slug":"cote-divoire-ivorian-lending-bici-reports-23-percent-first-quarter-profit-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivorian-lending-bici-reports-23-percent-first-quarter-profit-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ivorian Lending Bici Reports 23 Percent First-Quarter Profit Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l&#8217;Industrie de la C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire (BRVM: BICC) reported first-quarter net profit of 8.01 billion XOF ($13.9 million)<\/li>\n<li> Net banking income rose 9.3% to 18.13 billion XOF ($31.4 million) from 16.59 billion XOF ($28.7 million) in the same period last year<\/li>\n<li> The improved performance stemmed from higher interest margins on the expanded loan portfolio and strong fee income growth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l&#8217;Industrie de la C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabafinance.com\/en\/capitalmarkets\/BICC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BRVM:&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505070437.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l&#8217;Industrie de la C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire (BRVM: BICC) reported first-quarter net profit of 8.01 billion XOF ($13.9 million) Net banking income rose 9.3% to 18.13 billion XOF ($31.4 million) from 16.59 billion XOF ($28.7 million) in the same period last year The improved performance stemmed from higher interest margins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,51312,5958,6183,6555,5959,51236,6641,6800,1218,13429,257,6720,15693,8327,254],"class_list":["post-197737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bici","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-growth","tag-ivorian","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-lending","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-profit","tag-reports","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}