DRC Senate saves Equity from forced shares sale

Equity Bank branch along Muindi Mbingu street in Nairobi pictured on June 8, 2025.

Photo credit: Lucy Wanjiru | Nation Media Group

Equity Group has secured an exemption from a rule in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that demanded the lender sell a 30 percent stake in a subsidiary to nationals of the central African nation.

The bank petitioned the DRC Senate to protect it from the rule that looked set to slow Equity’s ambition to reduce reliance on the Kenya operations.

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