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    • Press conference - Launch of the Ecobank Gender Bond (28 February 2025). From left to right : Oriane Canfrin, Marketing and Communications Director; Alimata Diabaté Sylla, Head of Capital Market; Paul-Harry Aithnard, Managing Director Ecobank CI & UEMOA; Roseline Abé, Managing Director EIC; Cynthia Koidio, Head of Corporate Communications Ecobank CI; Franck Elleingand, Chief of Staff, Ecobank CI; Yolande Kouamé, CSR Manager
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Ecobank Côte d'Ivoire Launches West Africa’s First Gender Bond to Accelerate Financial Inclusion for Women Entrepreneurs

This five-year bond provides an attractive annual interest rate of 6.5% with a two-year capital repayment grace period

Ecobank Côte d'Ivoire, a subsidiary of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (www.Ecobank.com), the leading Pan African Bank, takes a major step forward in its commitment to financial inclusion with the launch of the first Gender Bond in West Africa. This groundbreaking bond issuance, amounting to XOF 10 billion, aims to mobilize funding…

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    • The Ecobank Group expands its gender-financing offer to facilitate access to financing for Africa’s women entrepreneurs (1)
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The Ecobank Group expands its gender-financing offer to facilitate access to financing for Africa’s women entrepreneurs

With this expansion, individual entrepreneurs - including those in the formal and informal sectors - can now fully benefit from its enhanced financial and non-financial solutions

Ellevate by Ecobank expands to become bigger, better and more inclusive. From supporting corporate businesswomen, small and medium-sized entrepreneurs to individual entrepreneurs, and those in the informal sector. ​To bridge the gender financing gap for Africa’s women entrepreneurs, Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the leading pan-African financial services group, announces significant enhancements to…

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    • Ecobank Côte d’Ivoire and the International Finance Corporation partner to empower Ivorian women’s businesses (1)
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Ecobank Côte d’Ivoire and the International Finance Corporation partner to empower Ivorian women’s businesses

The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women initiative is a free-to-access online business education programme available to women across around world

Ecobank Côte d’Ivoire (www.Ecobank.com), part of the leading pan-African financial services group, has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the International Finance Corporation to roll out the 10,000 Women initiative to enable Ecobank Cote d’Ivoire’s women small and medium-sized enterprises (WSME) clients to build their capacity, transform and…

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    • International Women's Day 2024 - Ecobank Group's journey towards inclusion
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    • Jeremy Awori signing the UN Women's Empowerment principles
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Ecobank Group signs United Nations (UN) Women’s Empowerment Principles

By joining the WEPs community, Ecobank’s Group CEO has signalled the Bank’s commitment to this agenda at the highest levels of the conglomerate and a desire to work collaboratively in multistakeholder networks to empower women

Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the pan-African banking group, has become an official signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles by UN Women and the UN Global Compact (WEPs), which provide guidance to the private sector on how to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community. Ecobank Group CEO,…

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    • Ecobank Group CEO, Mr. Jeremy Awori (seated left) and AGF Group CEO, Mr. Jules Ngakam (seated right) append their signatures on the USD200 million risk-sharing agreement
    • Ecobank Group CEO Mr. Jeremy Awori (left) and African Guarantee Fund Group CEO, Mr. Jules Ngankam exchange the USD200 million risk sharing agreement after it was signed in Lome, Togo
    • Left to Right - AfDB Country Manager Togo, Mr. Wilfrid Abiola, Group CEO AGF, Mr. Jules Ngakam and AGF Chairman Board of Directors, Mr. Felix Bikpo and Ecobank Group CEO, Jeremy Awori
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Ecobank and African Guarantee Fund Sign Transformative USD 200 Million Risk Sharing Agreement

The USD 200 million risk-sharing agreement marks the third renewal of Ecobank’s partnership with AGF

This is the largest guarantee facility in sub-Saharan Africa; The risk sharing agreement marks the third renewal of the partnership between Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com) and AGF; SMEs from across 27 African markets in which Ecobank operates will benefit from the partnership; up from just 7 countries in 2013; The agreement includes favourable lending terms…

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    • Ecobank's Group CEO, Jeremy Awori, hands over the grand prize of US$50,000 to winner Koree from Cameroon
    • 1st runner-up Wolf Technologies (DRC) receives the cash prize of US$10,000 out of the hands of Dr Segun Sina, President of the Africa Fintech Network
    • Fred Pelser, Senior Investor Arise hands over the cash prize of US$5,000 to 2nd runner-up Flexpay (Kenya)
    • Ecobank Group CEO Jeremy Awori (5th from left), Mrs. Cina Lawson, Minister of digital Economy & Transformation Togo (6th from the left) together with all the finalists
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Koree, a Cameroonian Fintech Emerges as Winner of the 2023 Ecobank Fintech Challenge

With their card wallet payment solution that digitizes merchant payments, Koree impressed the judges, securing their well-deserved victory

Koree from Cameroon is the competition’s first ever female-led fintech winner having beaten eight other finalists to claim the top prize of US$50,000; Wolf Technology from Democratic Republic of Congo came in second, winning US$10,000, while Kenya’s Flexpay Technologies were the second runner-up, taking home US$5,000; the 2023 edition drew…

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Ecobank Kenya’s Ellevate Programme to Empower Women-Led Businesses

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for about 90% of all businesses in Africa and women own about a third of all registered African SMEs. Indeed, one-in-four (25.9%) of adult women in Africa start or manage a business

Ecobank Kenya Limited, part of the leading pan-African Ecobank Group (http://www.Ecobank.com), is launching its flagship Women’s Programme ‘Ellevate’ to empower and support women-led and/or women focused with the financial and value-added solutions that will help their businesses reach their full potential and succeed. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for…

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Ecobank’s Ellevate Leadership Training Programme records graduation of 35 women entrepreneurs

This is an innovative impact-driven programme, designed to equip women entrepreneurs with valuable leadership skills to be better empowered, and to equip them to empower their businesses and communities

A first cohort of 35 women entrepreneurs from 9 African countries successfully completed the Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com) Ellevate Leadership Training Programme. This is an innovative impact-driven programme, designed to equip women entrepreneurs with valuable leadership skills to be better empowered, and to equip them to empower their businesses and communities. The…

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Ecobank launches Leadership Training Programme to support women-owned businesses across Africa

This is a unique training programme designed and delivered by the Ecobank Academy in partnership with the Global Business School Network and supported by its members

Ecobank Commercial Banking, part of the Pan-African banking Group Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), has launched its Ellevate Leadership Training Programme in partnership with the Global Business School Network (GBSN). The Ellevate Leadership Training Programme forms part of ‘Ellevate Equip’, the brand name for all capability and training support initiatives for Ellevate by…

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Ellevate By Ecobank continues to soar high

Ecobank also wins ‘Excellence in SME Banking’ Award

The Ecobank Group (www.Ecobank.com), the leading pan-African banking group, has won two awards with its Ellevate Programme. The Financial Alliance for Women honoured Ecobank with its ‘Impact Award’, recognising Ecobank’s work in supporting women-owned and women-focused businesses across the continent. Ellevate by Ecobank also won the ‘Best New Product Launch…