{"id":34369,"date":"2017-05-05T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bk-to-give-out-rwf-8-3-billion-in-dividends\/"},"modified":"2017-05-08T13:56:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:56:52","slug":"bk-to-give-out-rwf-8-3-billion-in-dividends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bk-to-give-out-rwf-8-3-billion-in-dividends\/","title":{"rendered":"BK to give out Rwf 8.3 billion in dividends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Bank of Kigali (BK) will give out dividends worth Rwf 8.3 billion to shareholders to the equivalent of  40% of last year\u2019s profit while the rest will be invested in the bank\u2019s long term development projects.} <\/p>\n<p>Each share will receive Rwf 12.3. BK earned a profit of Rwf   20.8 billion in 2016 from Rwf 20.5 billion in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>During a general assembly BK held today, the bank has informed shareholders that it received deposits of Rwf 419.0 billion from clients last year up from Rwf 384.7 in 2015.  <\/p>\n<p>The loan book  grew by 22% from Rwf 324.8 billion in 2015 to  Rwf397.6 billion l in 2016.  <\/p>\n<p>Marc Holtzman, the chairman board of directors, Bank of Kigali has said that BK will maintain its reputation and meet clients\u2019 needs as the country\u2019s leading bank.  <\/p>\n<p>He assured shareholders that BK is heading towards a bright future.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201c I bought shares of mine and others for my children in BK . I didn\u2019t sell them and won\u2019t do it as long as I am alive because I have trust in the future of the bank,\u201dhe said. <\/p>\n<p>The CEO of BK Dr Diane Karusisi has said that more achievements are expected to be registered in the not so distant future. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to strengthen existing financial products and coming up with more innovations for the benefit of our clients. Mobile Banking will help us achieve more in this year,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19824 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-1558-f4bbd.jpg\" alt=\"BK management in a general meeting today\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Bank of Kigali (BK) will give out dividends worth Rwf 8.3 billion to shareholders to the equivalent of 40% of last year\u2019s profit while the rest will be invested in the bank\u2019s long term development projects.} Each share will receive Rwf 12.3. BK earned a profit of Rwf 20.8 billion in 2016 from Rwf 20.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34369"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34369"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}