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Banking & FinanceDashen Bank’s Assets Reach Birr 350 Billion as Pre-Tax Profit Rises to Birr 15.2 Billion
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Banking & FinanceDashen Bank, EIB Global Sign €20 Million Financing Deal for Ethiopian SM
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Banking & FinanceBanks Pay 159.70 Birr per Dollar at National Bank’s 31st Dollar Sale, Slightly Less Than Two Weeks Ago
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Monday Breakfast Stories
The week in Ethiopian markets, over buna.
☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: The Pipeline
Pour the buna. This week’s number is 23. That is how many companies the Ethiopian Securities Exchange has in its pipeline for this fiscal year: 15 for the equity market and 8 for the over-the-counter market. ESX’s Yodit Kassa gave the figure at a webinar on October 28. She also said the exchange is operating
Read the issue☕ 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
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☕ 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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Banking & Finance
Hibret Insurance Reports 36.98% Increase in Annual Surplus
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Nyala Insurance’s Paid-Up Capital Exceeds Br2 Billion as Profit Tops Br1 Billion
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Dashen Bank’s Assets Reach Birr 350 Billion as Pre-Tax Profit Rises to Birr 15.2 Billion
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Dashen Bank, EIB Global Sign €20 Million Financing Deal for Ethiopian SM
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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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