{"id":232446,"date":"2026-05-06T03:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-bicici-posts-30-percent-profit-jump-as-deposits-surge-in-first-quarter\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:45:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:45:42","slug":"cote-divoire-bicici-posts-30-percent-profit-jump-as-deposits-surge-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-bicici-posts-30-percent-profit-jump-as-deposits-surge-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: BICICI Posts 30 Percent Profit Jump As Deposits Surge in First Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">BICICI, the Abidjan-based commercial bank and local unit of BNP Paribas, delivered one of the strongest profit performances among BRVM-listed banks in the first quarter of 2026, with net profit rising nearly 30% to 10.4 billion FCFA ($18.6 million) &#8212; a result driven by income growth across both lending margins and fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Net banking income grew 17% to 21.2 billion FCFA ($37.9 million), reflecting what the bank described as good momentum in both interest margins and net commissions. The pre-tax&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605050784.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>BICICI, the Abidjan-based commercial bank and local unit of BNP Paribas, delivered one of the strongest profit performances among BRVM-listed banks in the first quarter of 2026, with net profit rising nearly 30% to 10.4 billion FCFA ($18.6 million) &#8212; a result driven by income growth across both lending margins and fees. Net banking income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232447,"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":[258,256,52781,5958,6183,6555,5959,22991,1218,12398,257,6720,7032,15693,8710,254,10716],"class_list":["post-232446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bicici","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-deposits","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-jump","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-posts","tag-profit","tag-quarter","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surge"],"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\/232446","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=232446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}