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The EastAfrican is a weekly newspaper published in Kenya since 7 November 1994 by the Nation Media Group, which also publishes Kenya's national Daily Nation. [1] The EastAfrican also circulates in the other countries of the African Great Lakes region, including Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. [2] It contains stories and in-depth analysis from each ...
The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
Congolese Bank of Commerce Outside (BCCE) Continental Bank of Congo (BanCoC) Trade and Development Bank (BCD) Bank of Crédit Agricole (BCA) Compagnie Banciare de Commerce et de Credit (COBAC) First Bank Congo Corporation (FBCC) New Bank of Kinshasa (NBK) Ryad Bank (RB) Union of Congolese Banks (UBC)
The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast. It was overseen by the Duke of York, the brother of Charles II of England; the RAC was founded after Charles II ascended to the English throne in the 1660 Stuart Restoration, and he granted it a monopoly on all English ...
The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved domestic manufacturers. To this day, the BBC aims to follow the Reithian directive to "inform, educate and entertain". From private company towards public service corporation, 1923 to 1926. The financial arrangements soon proved inadequate.
Goldenberg scandal. The Goldenberg scandal was a political scandal where the Kenyan government was found to have subsidised exports of gold far beyond standard arrangements during the 1990s, by paying the company Goldenberg International 35% more (in Kenyan shillings) than their foreign currency earnings. Although it notionally appears that the ...
By total assets. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the largest bank in the world by total assets. This list is based on the April 2024 S&P Global Market Intelligence report of the 100 largest banks in the world. The ranking was based upon assets as reported and was not adjusted for different accounting treatments. [1]
United Bank for Africa. United Bank for Africa Plc ( UBA) is a Multinational pan-African financial services group headquartered in Lagos Island, Lagos and known as Africa’s Global Bank. It has subsidiaries in 20 African countries and offices in London, Paris and New York. [3] In December 2021, UBA received its banking license to commence ...