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Kenya Bank Rankings: June 08 Briefs

ABC; assets up 16%, deposits 17 and loan 7%, income is up 12% but expenses up 17% with no growth in 2008. Too early to tell about kisima at this indigenous bank>
Bank of Africa : deposits up 20% and loan 34%, income 51% with expenses up 41% but NPA also up 59%. French bank, quiet style, but making more marketing efforts to shore up size.
Barclays: assets up 22%, profit 21%, deposits 22% and loans up 30%. Income is up 35% from a year ago but expenses up 45%. In 2008, deposits are up 18% but loans up 1% – change of direction? Did not actively participate in Safaricom, and this big bank everyone (unfairly) watches to see how they react to Equity Bank
Baroda: profit up 31% deposits 9%, and loans up (staggering for them) 57%, in 2008, both income and expenses are up 29%, and though deposits are flat, loans are up 25% – no longer playing safe
Chase: asset up 76% deposits 58% and loan 88%. Income is up 48% but expenses up 75% and NPA 86%. in 08 loans up 29% and deposits up 51% at this fast growing local bank which has now ventured into stockbrokerage as Gencap
Citibank: assets up 65% and profit up 74%. 2008 looking even better as income is up 49% compared to just 7% in expenses, and remains immune (and insignificant) to parent turmoil
City Finance: assets up 2% , deposits up 12% strategy shifting with shifting bank with loans down 59% government securities and placements up by higher margin from a year ago. Just 8 million in staff costs in six months?
Commercial Bank of Africa: (CBA) assets and profit up 21% loans up 52%, and income up 23% compared to expenses 26%. Increased lending in 08 with 36% loan growth since December. Blue chip bank adjusting to the times, quietly did Safaricom IPO and dabbles in insurance
Consolidated: assets up 6% deposits 24% and loans 36% – with income and exp up 10%. Up for sale, can’t list so likely to be sold privately, and hopefully without controversy
Cooperative (Co-op) : asset up 23% profit 51% loan 44%, and NPA down 54% but insider lending up 40% from a year ago. IPO set for October 20 this year – but has it cleaned up enough legacy bad debt?
Credit: asset up 23% profit up 36% deposits up 25% and loans 44%
Development bank of Kenya (DBK) – assets up 33% deposits up 41% and loans 53%. The
Development financier is up for sale by the Government (ICDC)
Diamond Trust: asset up 40% deposits 37% loan 34%, income up 45% but expense up 64% as bank continues its expansion in Kenya, Uganda Tanzania and Burundi (every other bank says Rwanda)
Dubai Bank asset up 5% deposits 8% income 18% expenses up 13%, somehow translating to profit rise of 85%
Ecobank (formerly EABS) assets and deposits up 4%. Income up 34% and expenses up 10%. The parent Ecobank is currently raising $2.5 billion, (equivalent to Barclays Kenya assets) – showing how far Kenyans banks have to go in the big leagues
Equatorial: assets up 26% deposits 29% , income 21% but expenses up 31%, with no growth in 08
Equity 100% growth in assets loans and profits, and 78% in loans. Income up 140%, with expenses up 106% from a year ago. How long can this exponential growth go on?
Family bank : assets up 39% deposits 23% loan 52%, but income has tripled as have expenses at ‘Equity Blue’
Fidelity: asset up 29% deposits 36% loans 40%
Fina: Assets up 13%, deposits 14% and loan 32%. Income up 26% but expenses up 47% leading to a 24% lower profit. Many banks encroaching on the turf they created in Rwanda
Giro: assets up 1%, , deposits flat but loans up 10% , income up 26% with expenses up 10% – also leading to a surprising 86% profit surge
Guardian: assets and deposits up 11%. Income up 37% with expenses up just 26% leading to a profit surge of 76%
Habib AG Zurich: assets up 10% profit 22% deposits 13% and loans 31%
Habib Bank: assets up 4% from year ago, but no growth in 2008
Housing finance: asset up 34% deposits up 15% and loans up 27%. But profit down 20% (income up 1% while expense up 5%). in 08 deposits are up 5% and loans up 15%. Raised new funds from shareholders and will expect a boost from Equity Bank as anchor shareholder
Imperial; assets up 16%, deposits and loans up 22%. One bank reputed to have the fewest customers, but massive profits from them
(Bank of) India: asset and loans up 15%, with profit up 35%
I&M: asset and loans up 33%, income up 25% as expenses up 16%. Shareholders funds up 60% from new investors and the bank is opening new urban branches
KCB: assets up 66%, and deposits up 20%. Profits are up 77% (income up 50% with expenses up 38%) from a year ago. New funds raised, going regional in eastern Africa and will be cross-listed as well.
K-Rep: assets up 13%, deposits 15 % loans 10%. Income up 12% but expenses up 33% leading to a sharp drop in profit
Middle East: income up 15% and expenses up 33%
National Bank of Kenya assets up 3%, deposits and loans virtually unchanged, but income up 16% as expenses up just 4% leading to a surge in profit of 46% . government shareholding is up for sale
NIC: asset up 37% deposits 31% and loans 39%. Profits are up 38%, as income is up 26% with expenses up 17%. Expanding their stockbrokerage operation, and also opening new branches,
Oriental: assts up 12% deposits up 32% and loans 16%
Paramount Universal: assets up 13% with deposits and loans up 17% at one of the smallest banks
Prime Bank: super growth, with asset up 59%, deposits 57%, loans 66%. Income up 56% with expenses up 30% leading to a surge in profit up 98%
Southern Credit; assets up 9%, deposits and loans up 10% – but income is up 14% with expenses up 31%
Standard Chartered; sleeping giant – assets up 2% profit 1% deposits down 2%, but loan up 15%. Income up 6% but expenses up 10% from a year ago
Transnational: assets up 19% profits 16% deposits 23% and loans 19%
Victoria: flat, assets down 2%. Deposits are down 34% as loan up 18% – and income is up 18% but expenses are up 58%

Coop Bank IPO is Next

NSE is overweight with financial shares, and may get heavier with the listing of Co-operative Bank later this year. The listing is expected to raise 10 billion shillings ($150 million) for growth and expansion. The shareholders transferred the assets and liabilities of the bank to a limited liability company (from a co-operative socirty) last week. – and their class B shares (par value Kshs. 100 shillings will be split into shares of par value Kshs. 1)

However as a long suffering customer of the bank, I may not add to might already overweight basket of financial stocks.

edit – Co-Op IPO opens October 20 2008

elsewhere

transport

Kenya Airways; are offering a novel business trip package – 4 trips for $1,000 to be completed by March 2009 for trips to Dubai, Bangkok, honk Kong, Guangzhou
– Delta airlines open a Nairobi office
Railway destiny in local hands
– The Government wants Rift Valley Railways to increase capacity, lay more tracks, and transfer cargo ASAP. ICDCI looks at RVR as a long term investment, but they hope to get return on the investment within 4 years. They own 10% of the company and will acquire another 10% from IFC over the next four years.

Communications
Zain will increase share capital by 75% (raising $4.5 billion) from its Kuwaiti shareholders for expansion in Africa. They are already advertising to put up base stations and adding dealers in Kenya
good to know Econet has the most subscribers in Zimbabwe.. That’s an ARPU in millions?

Dividend cycles
how long goes it take some NSE companies to pay declared dividends?

One month: Standard chartered (interim), Kenol (interim)

Two months: Barclays, BAT, Olympia

Three months Crown Paints, TPSEA (Serena), Jubilee, Nation Media, Total, HFCK, Diamond Trust, Pan Africa, NIC, Standard Chartered (final), Bamburi (interim)

Four months: Centum (ICDCI), Standard Newspapers, Access Kenya, Eveready, Bamburi (final)

Five months: Kenya Re, Kenya airways, Express, Rea Vipingo

Wikileaks: Charterhouse

Charterhouse revealed
Fresh off the Kroll reports, Wikileaks moves on to another Kenyan financial saga – uncovering secrets of Charterhouse Bank.

The bank was placed under statutory management in 2006 after a long battle with the central bank governor, finance minister, amid allegations of money laundering and tax evasion that almost brought down Nakumatt supermarket who banked with them and hosted several Charterhouse branches.

Euro needs more marketing
The US Dollar keeps dipping lower, not just against the shilling, but is all over recording lows against the Euro and now achieving parity with the Canadian dollar (no more cheap buys from Canada).

I feel bad when I travel to another country with my Dollars and they don’t go as far as they used to, or as if I had carried Euros instead.

While the dollar is laid low, there is no other currency stepping up to grab its space. The pound is a colonial relic and the yen is too far & exotic.

The Euro needs to step up and lobby to become the currency of choice for hotels, shops, forex bureaus, Kenya airways, Somali & Sudanese businessmen, companies and most important the Kenya government

Family Bank gets cheques
After applying for a waiver (and getting it), Family Bank finally is now fully-fledged with cheque books for customers and access to the Central Bank clearinghouse. This meshes well with their growth plans – as a recent report found they had the highest new account growth among all banks last year.

IPO savings loan
From Transnational Bank, comes the Fanikisha enabling people to save money and buy IPO shares on the NSE – which TNBL will finance up to 2 ½ times what you have saved. The account is aimed at Kenyans abroad – but my question is with the fractional IPO applications yielded (1/4 or 1/3 of shares paid for) what gain is there in taking a loan for an IPO?

Story con or cover up?
KTN had a story this week about the Tesco supermarkets (local chain – not UK-related) who just ended their Uchumi franchise partnership. KTN said they had seen documents showing that Tesco was insolvent with negative share capital, numerous bounced cheques, rent arrears of many months at its stores, and suppliers reclaiming their merchandise. The story ended there with no follow up in the Standard (KTN sister paper) or any other newspaper. So was it hushed up, or was it a case of more mudslinging in the supermarket wars?

Kutwa Tuesday (June 12)

IPO Wanted

To plug a hole in the budget
Kenya Pipeline is in the news again – this time suing the Kenya Times group. The company has an enviable profitable track record for a Parastatal which makes it a ripe prime candidate for an IPO but mostly gets saddled with bad news for all the wrong reasons and controversial. A dose of public shareholding will lead to greater transparency & accountability and less political football at the company which is more profitable than Kengen (It earned 3.9 billion (pre-tax) in June 2006, up from 2.4 billion in June 2005 (Kengen reported 3.8 and 1.8 billion pre-tax in those years)

Kenya Re earnings
A point brought out by MainaT’s comment – what was Kenya Re’s true profit in 2005?

Post TED: Kenyan wildlife
The Economist analyses hippos and cheetahs

opportunities

Jobs

  • Director of internal audit at East African Development Bank. Apply through KPMG at esd@kpmg.co.ug by 20/6
  • Investment Climate Facility for Africa: Finance Director, Director, Strategic Knowledge, Projects Director, Director, and Legal/Regulatory Affairs. Apply through PWC at recruit@tz.pwc.com by 15/6
  • Project manager at Inmobia. Apply to job@inmobia.com by 12/6
  • Research assistants at Kemri-Wellcome. Apply online
  • Management trainees at Kenya Wildlife Services. D/L is 22/6
  • Chief internal auditor at Kenya Women’s Finance Trust. (D/L is 18/6)
  • Nielsen: IT system manager, research executives. Apply to hr@acnielsen.co.ke by 16/6
  • Safaricom: senior manager financial systems & analysis, site acquisition officer, senior learning & development officer, senior buyers (communication, technology – 3 positions). Apply to hr@safaricom.co.ke by 15/6
  • Group head of ICT at UAP insurance (D/L is 21/6)
  • Urgent Cargo: credit controller, sales executives, HR & admin officer. Jobs@urgentcargo.com by 22/6
  • Wilderness Lodges (owners of Keekorok) head of marketing, internal auditor. Apply to recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke by 22/6

Awards

  • Africa women entrepreneurs (from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania Uganda) get voices heard and be recognized. Nominations to be submitted to the Cineartsafrika website by 29/6
  • East African Community students essay competition. D/L is 19/7

Partnerships

  • Become a Citi hoppa franchisee. Cost at 50,000 per bus and get details at info@citihoppa.com
  • Become a Keringet water distributor. Details at keringet@water.co.ke
  • Get a mobile phone kiosk Sasanet. Details at sales@sasanet.co.ke

Vote The Electoral Commission of Kenya has reopened voter registration from June 11 to July 10 for Kenyans wishing to vote in the elections expected in December 2007.

Previous Kutwa Tuesday

Kenya Re 2006

Kenya Re published their 2006 results in preparation for IPO planned for June. Assets were up from Kshs. 11.6 billion in 2005 to 12.8 billion ($183 million) in 2006 and net insurance premium revenue rose from 2.1 to 2.8 billion over the same period. The year also saw management expenses increase from Kshs. 290 to 453 million resulting in a reduction of pre-tax profit from Kshs. 947 million in 2005 to 762 million ($10.9 million) in 2006.

Kenya Re accounts are straight forward, but insurance reporting is tricky. Once a year, usually between March & May), insurance companies publish their year end results. But there is no rhyme, some report only total assets, some don’t report profit/loss, or net asset positions while others have more/less detail – making it difficult to compare and see which companies are performing better. I wish their reporting could be harmonized.