{"id":205431,"date":"2025-08-25T05:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ethiopia-kenyas-kcb-eyes-entry-into-ethiopias-banking-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:46:24","slug":"ethiopia-kenyas-kcb-eyes-entry-into-ethiopias-banking-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ethiopia-kenyas-kcb-eyes-entry-into-ethiopias-banking-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Kenya&#8217;s KCB Eyes Entry Into Ethiopia&#8217;s Banking Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">ADDIS ABABA \u2014 Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) is in negotiations with Ethiopia&#8217;s central bank to acquire a stake in a local financial institution, CEO Paul Russo revealed in an interview with The Africa Report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Paul, who had earlier told The Ethiopian Herald in May that Ethiopia&#8217;s financial sector was undergoing &#8220;visible transformation,&#8221; reaffirmed his bank&#8217;s interest in expanding into one of Africa&#8217;s most closely watched markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The CEO said KCB is exploring the possibility of entering Ethiopia&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508210171.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADDIS ABABA \u2014 Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) is in negotiations with Ethiopia&#8217;s central bank to acquire a stake in a local financial institution, CEO Paul Russo revealed in an interview with The Africa Report. Paul, who had earlier told The Ethiopian Herald in May that Ethiopia&#8217;s financial sector was undergoing &#8220;visible transformation,&#8221; reaffirmed his bank&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":205432,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,10023,6425,4716,7144,4342,21378,430,6097,257,5991,254],"class_list":["post-205431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banking","tag-entry","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopias","tag-eyes","tag-kcb","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-sector","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\/205431","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}