Category: Finance

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Joe Dinga Pefok (Uncle Joe)November 22, 20247min2460
Another affiliate of Neptune Oil, a 400 billion FCFA Cameroon Tyre Factory, CTF, is a project that will hopefully help to revive the Cameroon Development Corporation.  A new micro finance establishment, ‘Agence Bancaire pour le Commerce’, ABC Finances (Banking Agency for Trade, ABC Finances), with headquarters in the nation’s economic capital, Douala, officially launched its […]

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Joe Dinga Pefok (Uncle Joe)October 21, 202412min3020
Essimi Menye Lazare, Cameroon’s Minister of Finance from September 7, 2007 to December 9, 2011, was the person that proposed the takeover of Amity Bank, to Atlantic Financial Group Atlantic Financial Group is the mother company of Banque Atlantique of Ivory Coast and a few other Francophone African countries, including Cameroon.    Due to the […]

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Joe Dinga Pefok (Uncle Joe)October 19, 202411min4150
A big controversy sparked off last year, when a leaked document exposed the names of elites of the South Region that were working to create the micro finance. The controversy came from the fact that some GMs of public corporations and senior civil servants, were at the forefront of the project   A project by an […]

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Joe Dinga Pefok (Uncle Joe)October 8, 202412min3110
A very destructive conflict erupted between the former majority shareholder of Amity Bank, Isa Bongam, and the new majority shareholder and General Manager the bank, Lawrence Tasha, with two camps emerging in the bank. Bongam and Tasha got engaged in a series of protracted, damaging and costly court cases, which drained a lot of money […]

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Joe Dinga Pefok (Uncle Joe)September 28, 20243min4380
The debate as to whether Cameroon should pull out of the French neocolonialism which the franc CFA represents, and create its own currency, took an interesting turn on Sunday, September 20, 2024. This was in a debate during the weekly flagship programme of Vision 4 TV in Yaounde, known as ‘Club D’Elites’. Prof Oliver Bile, […]

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Joe Dinga Pefok (Uncle Joe)September 23, 202413min4000
Amity Bank Cameroon was created in 1990 by a group of Anglophone Cameroonians, who were economic operators. It was the outcome of a Commercial Bank Project; an initiative of Lawrence Tasha, a son of the Nso land in Bui Division, Northwest Region. Lawrence Tasha, a BOBAN, is a professional banker, who lived and worked in […]

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Joe Dinga Pefok (Uncle Joe)September 7, 20247min4530
Mrs Gwendoline Abunaw, the University of Buea and London trained professional banker, has since 2017 being the General Manager of the reputed and popular commercial bank in Cameroon, Ecobank, a Pan-African bank. Not only that, she also doubles as the General Manger of “Cluster CEMAC” of the Ecobank Group, which means that she  oversees the […]

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Joe Dinga Pefok (Uncle Joe)September 3, 20249min3710
 However some of the banks have been recording success stories. With the coming of Africa Golden Bank, Cameroon today counts a total of eight commercial banks created with local capital, including one created by the State.  They include: 1) Afriland First Bank. 2) Union Bank of Cameroon, UBC. 3) Commercial Bank Cameroun, CBC. 4)  Credit […]

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Joe Dinga Pefok (Uncle Joe)August 24, 202410min3750
 One of the few banks that was created with local capital, Afriland First Bank, has in the last couple of years tenaciously stayed at the upper rungs of the classification table of commercial banks, and a times occupies the first position.    With the newly created commercial bank, Africa Golden Bank, having gone operational, Cameroon […]


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