{"id":37515,"date":"2018-05-18T15:31:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bank-of-kigali-to-enlist-on-nairobi-stock-market\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T11:23:57","slug":"bank-of-kigali-to-enlist-on-nairobi-stock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bank-of-kigali-to-enlist-on-nairobi-stock-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Kigali to enlist on Nairobi Stock market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holtzman was speaking on Friday during an annual shareholders\u2019 general meeting of Bank of Kigali. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe intend to cross-list BK Group plc on the Nairobi Securities Exchange official list, the first Rwandan Company to go on the international Market\u201d Holtzman said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that based on bank\u2019s functioning and intensified use of ICT  in their operations; they should work towards changes in customer treatment and shareholders.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cFor us to continue to lead, we decided to raise our initial investment to between $60 and $70 million in the second term of the financial year both on local and international market,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After listing to the Nairobi Securities Exchange, Bank of Kigali will be the first Rwandan company to go on the international market.<\/p>\n<p>Holtzman said that the move is in the interest of shareholders as the Kenyan market is very rich, but do not invest in Rwandan market.<\/p>\n<p>He said that once listed, they will help the development of local market. <\/p>\n<p>BK Group Plc, Chief Executive Officer, Diane Karusisi pledged continued development.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe are proud to be the leading financial institution in Rwanda, be in depositing, providing loans for big projects, tax payment and profitability. Last year, BK earned Rwf23.3 billion of profit,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>In the meeting, shareholders adopted the annual report and audited financial reports of the year ended 31st December 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Kigali Group Plc Head of Board of Directors, Mark Holtzman has revealed that they intend to cross list the company on the Nairobi Securities Exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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-37515","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\/37515","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37515"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37515"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}