KCB Group makes U-turn on full buyout of DRC bank

Kenya Commercial Bank Branch along Mama Ngina Street in Nairobi. 

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KCB Group has retreated from an earlier plan of buying the remaining 15 percent stake in DRC Congo’s Trust Merchant Bank (TMB), citing the need to ride on the expertise of founding shareholders.

The lender, which in mid-December last year acquired an 85 percent stake in TMB, had planned to let the existing shareholders continue holding the balance for at least two years and then move to buy them out fully.

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