#Proposed CBA & NIC Group merger Joint press briefing.
The bank will operate a network of more than 100 branches across five regional economic centres including Nairobi, Kampala, Dar es Salaam, Kigali and Abidjan. Serving over 40 million customers, the merged entity will be the largest bank in Africa by customer numbers.
The merged entity will be amongst the largest financial institutions in the East Africa region with a total asset base in excess of KES 444 Billion and Shareholders’ Equity of KES 65 Billion.
The proposed merger will be executed through a share swap, with the 34 shareholders of CBA exchanging their shares in CBA for new shares in NIC, which will remain a publicly listed company quoted on the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
It will be the second largest bank in Kenya by customer deposits and third largest by total assets and a true market leader in Corporate Banking, Asset Finance and Digital Banking.
The envisioned share exchange ratio will be based on a 47:53 relative valuation of NIC and CBA respectively
The merger is expected to be completed in the second half of 2019. Until then, the two entities will continue to operate independently
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