https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/markets/capital-markets/ncba-crafts-new-generous-dividend-payment-policy-3930456NCBA Group plans to pay up to 50 percent of net earnings as dividends going forward, indicating increased returns to shareholders for a bank that previously kept its cash distributions at 20 percent of net income.
The Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed lender said it now targets to set a dividend policy of paying 35 percent to 50 percent of profits in a policy that also takes into account capital investment requirements.
The dividend policy comes after the bank emerged from the amalgamation of the former CBA Group and NIC Group --which previously did not have a formal dividend policy but had a tradition of paying a fifth of net income to shareholders.
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