{"id":246382,"date":"2026-10-05T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-attijariwafa-bank-to-acquire-majority-stake-in-societe-generale-ghana\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:30:08","slug":"ghana-attijariwafa-bank-to-acquire-majority-stake-in-societe-generale-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-attijariwafa-bank-to-acquire-majority-stake-in-societe-generale-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Attijariwafa Bank to Acquire Majority Stake in Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Morocco&#8217;s Attijariwafa Bank has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The North African lender will purchase a significant portion from Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale Group, expanding its footprint in English-speaking Africa. Concurrently, Ghana&#8217;s Social Security and National Insurance Trust will also acquire a smaller stake in the Ghanaian bank. The transaction is contingent on receiving the necessary regulatory and stock market approvals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">Under the terms of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610040138.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco&#8217;s Attijariwafa Bank has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale Ghana. The North African lender will purchase a significant portion from Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale Group, expanding its footprint in English-speaking Africa. Concurrently, Ghana&#8217;s Social Security and National Insurance Trust will also acquire a smaller stake in the Ghanaian bank. The transaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246383,"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":[4507],"tags":[15844,258,256,55582,7089,33819,4508,4509,7334,257,29840,254,9744],"class_list":["post-246382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-acquire","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attijariwafa","tag-bank","tag-generale","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-majority","tag-news","tag-societe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stake"],"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\/246382","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=246382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}