They still have a bunch of stock left from the 400 million shares they created in 2015 plus I predict a flat dividend growth for FY 2019. I think they have the capital needed considering the Kenyan subsidiary doesn't need that much funding since the rate cap started. Deploying that money to acquire other banks and get a higher return may be a better option.

No idea! Worrying. Of course, never discount that TZ doesn't like KE firms!

Yes Simba was the first KE bank in Tz.It launched there in 1996.
Simba adhered to the rules

Itumbi has not told the story to the end. I'd be interested to hear how the bank resolved the issue.

Nevertheless; I have seen too many complaints on Twitter about money disappearing from Equity bank accounts. That's worrying.

https://www.businessdail...10018-x1sfku/index.html

Equity Bank is taking over a total of Sh2 billion worth of loans that had been advanced to East African Cables by various lenders, including Standard Chartered Bank (Kenya) and Ecobank Kenya Limited.
Equity Bank, for instance, has been revealed as the lender that provided Sh1.6 billion that was used to settle StanChart claims. StanChart wrote off Sh1.5 billion and opted to walk away from the debt-ridden firm with the Sh1.6 billion. “Subsequent to year end, the group and company signed a facility agreement amounting to Sh1.6 billion with Equity Bank Kenya Limited to restructure the loans previously held by Standard Chartered Bank Kenya and Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania,” EA Cables says in the report. Buyout of the Stanchart loans was completed in May. The cables manufacturer added that it has approached Equity to also take over a Sh161 million loan owed to Ecobank kenya and Sh285 million owed to SBM Bank Kenya.

“The new lender has offered the group a tenor of ten (10) years with a moratorium of two (2) years on principal repayments and a six (6) months moratorium on interest payments,” the cables manufacturer said of the negotiations with Equity.
Prior to taking over the loans from its rivals, Equity had already lent more than Sh2 billion to EA Cables.

Most of the cable manufacturer’s assets are pledged to Equity. EA Cables approached the bank to take over the loans which it is unable to repay on its own.

“The loans due to Ecobank Kenya and SBM Bank Kenya … are due and payable on demand and in the event that the lenders recall the loans due, the group and company do not have the ability to settle these loans in the normal course of business,” the company said.

This is a toxic deal/move by Equity bank;with the state of economy and kenya power,defaults are likely to reoccur by EA Cables