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Shareholders Support Ecobank’s Special Planning
Recognising the importance of the need to raise more capital for the bank despite the bull in the capital market, shareholders of Ecobank Nigeria Plc have thrown their weight behind the company’s plan to raise about N120 billion through a special placing in its parent company, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated.
The option of the special placing was among the list of other ways of raising capital which the company highlighted to the shareholders for consideration. Other equally viable options include convertible loans, debt, equality, offer for subscription to the public and rights issue to existing shareholders collectively agreed that considering the current state of the capital market and the dwindling investor confidence, it would be better to take the opportunity of the giant parent company providing the needed fund, which would increase its stake in the subsidiary.
According to the National Co-ordinator, Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria (ISAN), Sir Sunny Nwosu, if that is done, all Nigerian shareholders would benefit from it, noting that the bank should not miss the opportunity, which other banks do not have.
The shareholders also commended the company for being the first to take the bold step in their margin loans. Nwosu said though the shareholders were not happy for not getting dividend, they were delighted in the fact that the company started the current financial year on a clean slate, which is expected to result in better performance and dividend at the end of the year. He, however, asked the bank to pay an interim dividend given its sterling performance in the half-year account released recently.
Also speaking, the President, Association for Advancement of the Rights of Nigerian Shareholders (AARNS), Alhaji Faruk Umar, said the bank’s decision to make the provision even before the Central Bank of Nigeria made its pronouncement showed the bank’s commitment to transparency and its anxiety to move ahead.
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