Nigeria’s GTBank Mulls Expansion, Acquisition of Kenyan Lender

  Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Nigeria’s biggest lender by market value, plans to acquire a Kenyan lender as part of its expansion on the continent, according to the managing director, Bloomberg has reported. “I think the place we will still like to do business or do an acquisition is Kenya,” Segun Agbaje, the lender’s chief executive said at an investor call in Lagos, without giving a time-line for the acquisition. The Lagos-based lender already has offices in 10 countries outside Nigeria including Kenya. It wants to increase the contribution of…

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