{"id":37137,"date":"2018-03-16T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T13:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/i-m-bank-rwanda-makes-rwf6-5-billion-net-profit\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:33:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:33:26","slug":"i-m-bank-rwanda-makes-rwf6-5-billion-net-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/i-m-bank-rwanda-makes-rwf6-5-billion-net-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#038;M Bank Rwanda makes Rwf6.5 billion net profit in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the management, the bank recorded significant growth in business.<br \/>\nThe bank reported profit before tax of Rwf9.8 billion, an increase of 17% year on year resulting in a cost-to-income ratio of 55.8%, compared to 58.1% at the close of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The bank\u2019s headline earning per share grew by 11.3% from Rwf11.61 in 2016 to Rwf12.92 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to the bank\u2019s Managing Director, Robin Bairstow, the performance is accredited the passion for customer satisfaction and investment in staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a constantly evolving economic landscape, we have managed to remain relevant and we are doing this by listening to and meeting market needs. We are also now focusing on new business avenue such as support to the SME sector, and partnerships with the development agencies to grow targeted segments of market such as export growth and tourism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The bank targets to steady income growth over the next five years, with Compounded Annual Growth Rate 18% on loans, 19% on deposits and 18% on revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the bank targets to continue to invest in people with training in the staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on customer insights and forecast market trends, we shall in the near future be rolling more innovative products for our customers including treasury products which focus on managing our client\u2019s risk, bank assurance and wealth management,\u201d said the bank\u2019s Executive Director and Divisional Head  of Business Development, Faustin Byishimo.<\/p>\n<p>By 31st December, I&#038;M Bank\u2019s total assets was Rwf260 billion which represents a year on year increase of 26%. <\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the bank embarked on a new five-year strategic plan which is based on revenue diversification, operational excellence, digital channel optimization and business growth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24434 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton89775_1_-0c425.jpg\" alt=\"I&amp;M Bank headquarters in Kigali\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#038;M Bank Rwanda has announced its audited financial  results for the financial year ended on December 31st 2017 which show that the bank reported a net profit of Rwf6.5 billion (USD11.6million) which represents a 12% year on year increase in comparison to Rwf5.8 billion in the previous year.<\/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],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/37137","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=37137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37137"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37137"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}