{"id":9379,"date":"2013-07-29T03:56:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T03:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/equity-bank-reports-17-rise-in-h1-profit\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T03:54:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T03:54:13","slug":"equity-bank-reports-17-rise-in-h1-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/equity-bank-reports-17-rise-in-h1-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity Bank Reports 17% rise in H1 Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{ Kenya&#8217;s Equity Bank posted a 17 percent rise in its pretax profit to 9 billion shillings ($103 million) for the first half of 2013, it said on Monday.}}<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi told a briefing in Nairobi that the rise in profits was mainly due to a fall in costs. Total income grew 15 percent to 20.2 billion shillings, he said. ($1 = 87.4500 Kenyan shillings) <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3316 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eq.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{wirestory}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{ Kenya&#8217;s Equity Bank posted a 17 percent rise in its pretax profit to 9 billion shillings ($103 million) for the first half of 2013, it said on Monday.}} Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi told a briefing in Nairobi that the rise in profits was mainly due to a fall in costs. Total income grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","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\/9379","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}