{"id":224781,"date":"2026-02-23T12:32:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/ghana-fitch-ratings-upgrades-ecobank-groups-outlook-to-positive\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:32:53","slug":"ghana-fitch-ratings-upgrades-ecobank-groups-outlook-to-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/ghana-fitch-ratings-upgrades-ecobank-groups-outlook-to-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Fitch Ratings Upgrades Ecobank Group&#8217;s Outlook to Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Fitch Ratings has revised the Outlook on Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (<a href=\"https:\/\/dabafinance.com\/en\/capitalmarkets\/ETIT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BRVM: ETIT<\/a>) to Positive from Stable and affirmed its Long-Term Issuer Default Rating at B-.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The agency cited an improving operating environment in the group&#8217;s main markets of Ghana, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Nigeria. Fitch also pointed to reduced foreign-exchange exposure, which is expected to limit translation losses and support profitability and capitalisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Ecobank Nigeria Limited remains in breach of regulatory capital&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602230011.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>Fitch Ratings has revised the Outlook on Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (BRVM: ETIT) to Positive from Stable and affirmed its Long-Term Issuer Default Rating at B-. The agency cited an improving operating environment in the group&#8217;s main markets of Ghana, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Nigeria. Fitch also pointed to reduced foreign-exchange exposure, which is expected to limit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224782,"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":[258,256,6183,6555,14221,21625,4508,9835,1218,257,10797,6594,24585,254,27871],"class_list":["post-224781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-ecobank","tag-fitch","tag-ghana","tag-groups","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-outlook","tag-positive","tag-ratings","tag-south-africa-today","tag-upgrades"],"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\/224781","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=224781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}