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 Nigeria's GTBank targets loan growth, expansion- Nigeria's GTBank targets loan growth, expansion
- March 21, 2012
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Nigeria's Guaranty Trust Bank (GT Bank) expects loan growth to top 16 percent in 2012, with return on equity of between 23 and 25 percent, while it starts expansion to French- speaking west Africa next month, the bank's chief executive said on Wednesday.
The lender grew its loan book last year by 20.6 percent to 715.84 billion naira ($4.5 billion), Segun Agbaje told an investors' conference call, pushing up profit before tax 35 percent to 65.6 billion naira.
He said the lender had completed its English-speaking west African expansion, with subsidiaries in Gambia, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone and will drive its expansion into Francophone west Africa through a combination of acquisition and organic growth.
"Ivory Coast will open next mont...
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