{"id":232578,"date":"2026-05-07T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ecobank-ci-grows-q1-revenue-but-rising-risk-costs-weigh-on-profit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:51:13","slug":"cote-divoire-ecobank-ci-grows-q1-revenue-but-rising-risk-costs-weigh-on-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ecobank-ci-grows-q1-revenue-but-rising-risk-costs-weigh-on-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ecobank Ci Grows Q1 Revenue but Rising Risk Costs Weigh On Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Ecobank C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire (<a href=\"https:\/\/dabafinance.com\/en\/capitalmarkets\/ECOC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BRVM: ECOC<\/a>) started 2026 with net banking income growing 3.7% to 30.8 billion FCFA ($55.1 million), a solid top-line performance in a market where the bank is operating with deliberate caution on credit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">The income growth was driven entirely by interest margins, which jumped 12.7% as the bank earned more on its loan and securities portfolio. Fee income fell 17%, a drop the bank did not explain in detail but which likely reflects lower transactional volumes or a shift in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605050779.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>Ecobank C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire (BRVM: ECOC) started 2026 with net banking income growing 3.7% to 30.8 billion FCFA ($55.1 million), a solid top-line performance in a market where the bank is operating with deliberate caution on credit. The income growth was driven entirely by interest margins, which jumped 12.7% as the bank earned more on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232579,"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":[258,256,11509,5958,6183,6555,5959,14221,9886,1218,257,15693,7343,6678,9590,254,22534],"class_list":["post-232578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-costs","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-grows","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-profit","tag-revenue","tag-rising","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weigh"],"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\/232578","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=232578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}