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    A graphic representation of ICEA Lion operations across East Africa.

    US Insurance Giant to Exit ICEA Lion: What it Means for Uganda’s Insurance Market

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryMarch 2, 2026March 3, 2026

    A major shift is underway in East Africa’s insurance sector after a US-based global financial services firm announced it will sell its entire 24.1% stake in ICEA Lion Insurance Holdings,…

    Standard Bank’s Sim Tshabalala, Absa Group’s Kenny Fihla, MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita, SanlamAllianz’s Heinie Werth, Nedbank Group’s Jason Quinn, and Old Mutual’s Jurie Strydom represent more than individual corporate leaders. Collectively, they sit at the helm of institutions controlling hundreds of billions of dollars in assets, deposits, premiums, and market capitalisation across Africa. Their strategic decisions influence capital flows, credit creation, insurance penetration, and digital finance ecosystems across multiple markets. As they pivot attention toward East Africa, they are not merely expanding footprints; they are reshaping regional banking, telecom, insurance, and investment architecture for the next phase of continental growth.

    South Africa’s capital is moving north-east, and East Africa is increasingly the preferred landing strip

    The CEO Magazine TeamThe Big StoryFebruary 13, 2026February 27, 2026

    South African capital, long dominant in Southern Africa and deeply embedded across the continent, is now moving decisively north-east. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda are no longer peripheral growth outposts….

    Chairman and Director Conflict Resolution Tim Fletcher, CEO and Managing Partner Brent Williams, and Kenya Managing Partner Sammy Ndolo anchor Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr’s rise in in both South Africa and East Africa, combining strategic leadership, execution discipline, and local insight as the firm quietly steers the region’s most complex, multibillion-dollar cross-border transactions.

    Who is Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, the law firm advising the $3 bilion Vodacom-Safaricom and Nedbank-NCBA Bank Deals?

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryJanuary 30, 2026January 30, 2026

    When two of East Africa’s largest corporate transactions, together valued at nearly $3 billion, required legal advisers, the mandates converged on a single firm. That firm is Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr…

    South Africa’s Nedbank to Acquire 66% Stake in Kenya’s NCBA Bank for $856 million

    Paul MurungiBanking & Financial ServicesEast AfricaThe Big StoryJanuary 21, 2026January 22, 2026

    South Africa’s Nedbank Group has unveiled plans to acquire approximately 66% of the issued ordinary share capital of Kenya’s NCBA Group.  The move is set to hand the Johannesburg-listed lender…

    A photo collage of former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, NCBA Group chairman James P. M. Ndegwa, NCBA Group managing director John Gachora, and former Kenyan minister, the late Simeon Nyachae, whose family maintains a substantial holding in NCBA Group. If Standard Bank, which trades as Stanbic in Uganda and Kenya, takes over NCBA Group, the key figures above, whose families are represented by different individuals as shareholders, will be some of the biggest beneficiaries from either a windfall in the form of a payout or a shareholder value addition derived from an enlarged regional banking powerhouse.

    The NCBA Windfall: Shareholders Set for a Windfall if Stanbic Seals the Takeover

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryOctober 16, 2025October 23, 2025

    If the long-rumored Stanbic–NCBA merger or buyout becomes reality, NCBA shareholders could emerge as the biggest winners in East Africa’s next major banking shake-up. The market already seems to agree….

    NCBA Shares Surge as Standard Bank’s Two-Year Courtship Nears the Finish Line

    Paul MurungiBanking & Financial ServicesThe Big StoryOctober 15, 2025October 22, 2025

    Shares of NCBA Group Plc have hit an all-time high of KSh 75.25, rising 8.27 percent from KSh 69.50, after confirmation that Africa’s largest lender, Standard Bank Group Ltd., is…

    Beyond the Numbers: How NCBA Bank Is Powering Inclusive Growth in Uganda

    Muhereza KyamuteteraNews & AnalysisThought LeadershipSeptember 23, 2025September 23, 2025

    Over the past four years, since the merger of two Financial Institutions in 2019, NCBA Bank Uganda has firmly established itself as one of the fastest-growing and most profitable financial…

    RWANDAN CEOS FIXING RWANDA⎮ Lina Higiro, Chief Executive Officer, NCBA Bank Rwanda 

    Muhereza KyamuteteraCEO PerspectivesThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipMay 7, 2024May 7, 2024

    For those who do not know you, tell us about yourself and your career background. How do you describe yourself?  I consider myself a Global East African⏤ born in Uganda,…

    Q3 2023 Performance: Claver Serumaga, leads turnaround of NCBA Tanzania 

    Muhereza KyamuteteraBusiness & MarketsC-Suite LeadershipThe Big StoryNovember 5, 2023November 5, 2023

    NCBA Tanzania, the banking subsidiary of NCBA Group, has released its third-quarter financial report for 2023, showing remarkable growth in a series of bank fundamentals.  In results released this week,…

    BREAKING: Mark Muyobo appointed substantive NCBA Managing Director, pending Central Bank approval

    Muhereza KyamuteteraCompany NewsThe Big StoryJune 16, 2022June 16, 2022

    Mark Muyobo, previously the Acting Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of NCBA Bank Uganda has been confirmed as the substantive head of the bank, CEO East Africa Magazine can…

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