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Banking & FinanceEthiopia’s Interbank Money Market Crosses ETB 4 Trillion in Cumulative Transactions
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Monday Breakfast Stories
The week in Ethiopian markets, over buna.
☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: Four Trillion
Pour the buna. This week’s number is 4 trillion. That is how many birr have now changed hands on Ethiopia’s Interbank Money Market since it opened in October 2024. The jump from 3 trillion to 4 trillion took about four months, the fastest single-trillion increase the market has recorded. The rest of the week moved
Read the issue☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: The Guest List
Pour the buna. This week’s number is 100. That is the maximum number of Ethiopian investors who can buy into Africa’s largest-ever IPO, under the notice the Ethiopian Capital Market Authority issued on Tuesday. The Dangote Petroleum Refinery offer is open in Addis Ababa until October 23, at ETB 74.90 a share, but only to
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☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: The New Line-up
Pour the buna. This week’s number is 22. That is how many federal ministries Ethiopia’s new Council of Ministers will run, after the House of Peoples’ Representatives approved Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s cabinet on Wednesday. Nine of the 22 ministers are women, including three of the four who sit at the centre of fiscal and
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Banking & Finance
Siinqee Bank Founding President Neway Megersa Named CEO of Oromia Sovereign Fund; Getachew Deressa Steps In as Acting CEO
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Capital Market
Your Money, Pooled and Protected: The Story Behind Ethiopia’s New Investment Fund Rules
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Banking & Finance
Ethiopia’s Interbank Money Market Crosses ETB 4 Trillion in Cumulative Transactions
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Banking & Finance
Cooperative Bank of Oromia Reports ETB 11.47 Billion Pre-Tax Profit
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Deep Dive
Longer reads on the forces behind the numbers.
- Deep Dive10 min readThe Impatient Economy: Ethiopia’s New Monetary Framework Meets the Problem of TimePart one looked at how Ethiopia’s new money system is built. This part looks at time. The system works, but slowly, and almost everyone in the economy wants results now. Imagine you need 10,000 birr today, but you will only have it next year. Someone lends it to you, and a year later you payRead
- Capital Market5 min readEthiopian Securities Exchange Crosses Half a Billion Birr in Weekly Value Traded, but One Stock Did Almost All the WorkThe Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) recorded ETB 510.05 million in equity turnover for the week of September 28 to October 2, 2026, across 525 trades and 215,325 shares in its seven listed securities. The half-billion-birr total is the headline. Underneath it, the week was mostly the story of one stock trading heavily and six tradingRead
- Deep Dive10 min readWhy being poor in Ethiopia costs moreWalk into a mini shop in Addis Ababa and look at the sizes on the shelf. Sugar by the quarter kilo. Quarter kilos of onions. One bread roll. Charcoal by the tin. All of those things exist in bigger, cheaper packs a few kilometres away. What the mini shop is really selling is the rightRead
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Ethiopia’s Expanded FX Auction Programme Opens Oversubscribed as Demand Returns
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