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Insurance giant Prudential's African path points towards Orabank

After buying the West African firm Beneficial last year, the British insurer is considering taking a share in another of the region's banking and insurance companies, Orabank. [...]

Published on 17/12/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Beneficial
Caisse generale de retraite des agents de l'Etat
Central Bank of West African States
Ebomaf
Emerging Capital Partners
Gordon Brown
Inter-African Conference on Insurance Markets
Mahamadou Boukoungou
Orabank
Prudential
Serge Ekué
Shriti Vadera
Tidjane Thiam
West African Development Bank

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Construction magnate Mahamadou Bonkoungou's banking ambitions

Already the owner of Burkina's International Business Bank, the CEO of the construction firm Ebomaf has his sights set on the Togolese banks UTB and BTCI as well as the pan-African company Orabank, in which the Ivorian civil servants' pension fund recently acquired a majority stake.

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Mahamadou Bonkoungou, CEO of Ebomaf Group and Liza Transport International.

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Bank of Africa founder Paul Derreumaux's other life

The founder of the leading bank among Africa's business elite, Bank of Africa, shows no signs of slowing down at 74. After announcing his retirement from the BOA, Paul Derreumaux has thrown his energy into new areas while staying on as honorary chairman of his star bank that picked up an EBRD aid on 21 April.

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Paul Derreumaux, founder of Bank of Africa

West Africa
Emerging Capital Partners sells off Orabank to Ivorian state

On 14 November, Vincent Le Guennou, one of the two co-directors of the private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), [...]

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Ali and Pascaline Bongo - a rock and a hard place for Delta Synergie

The increasingly frosty relationship between the presidential couple - Ali Bongo and his wife Sylvia Bongo - and the president's elder sister Pascaline Bongo is complicating the management of the family's assets. Nearly a third of these assets are held [.

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Beneficial
Caisse generale de retraite des agents de l'Etat
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Inter-African Conference on Insurance Markets
Mahamadou Boukoungou
Orabank
Prudential
Serge Ekué
Shriti Vadera
Tidjane Thiam
West African Development Bank

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