yes,they have a 30 seconds advert on CNN,Mwangi talking about the bank.What will that bring from international investors?

absence of foreign investors in their ownership...coupled with their percieved political affiliations...

Equity is a political animal. It will shrink once the present "govt" leaves office. Even the CEO has political ambitions, something usually taboo for top bankers.

Just look at their bad debt book and the provisioning done for it. it doesn't require a genius to figure out CBK support due to political pressure.

Let's see who's right. The bank is already stagnating.

I don’t know why people at this forum like giving negative comments about Equity. The bank may have initially identified Central as its niche market but it has grown and increased its market share (currently in Ug, Rwanda etc). They may be looking into going global but people want to put the tribal tag to it….why are we enemies of what is Kenyan. Are we that alienated.

Most, if not all business start somewhere. You have to identify the niche you want to initially serve so that you can stabilise financially and operationally as a business before expanding. The fact that Equity chose central providence does not make it an inferior business model. Yunus’ Grameen Bank started with women in Bangladesh but now serving (at least the same model) the New York Market.