Which other Stock market is Ecobank Ghana listed on in West Africa?
No other market. The group is coming on Nigeria, Ghana and Cote dIvoire Stock Markets next year. What in your view are the main operating advantages of working in Ghana? I came in from Cote dIvoire working for Citibank and Chase Manhattan for 13 years. I came in with a new culture of banking, customer care and aggressiveness in marketing. That has made us very successful. When we started there was no money market, consortium lending was basically zero in this market. We have been able to create an inter-bank market in this country, bring the idea of consortium lending, initially it was difficult but now we are getting cooperation better than before. Our function in this area is second to none and we are glad to be the leader in this sector of the market. What would you say have been the main operating disadvantages? Being a merchant bank we are not allowed to expand as fast as we want to so all these successes have been based in Accra. We cannot get closer to all potential customers. S
