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Ethiopia Is About to License Its First Mutual Funds. Here's Who Needs to Be Ready
ECMA has finalised Ethiopia's Collective Investment Schemes directive and sent it to the Ministry of Justice. What fund managers, custodian banks and boards should build before it clears the last procedural step.
No More Auditors for Life: What Ethiopia's Six-Year Rotation Rule Means for Insurers' Audit Committees
NBE's Directive No. SIB/64/2026 caps an insurer's external auditor at six years and requires competitive bidding. What audit committees need to build before their next tender.
Can Your Auditor Also Run Your Deal? A New Licence Puts the Question to Ethiopian Boards
ECMA licensed Deloitte Ethiopia as an investment bank on 31 August 2026. What the dual-role scenario means for conflict checks when Ethiopian boards pick capital-markets advisers.
Meba Just Registered Securities With ECMA. Here's What Changes for Every MFI Board
Meba became the first Ethiopian microfinance institution to register shares with ECMA. Registration brings insider-information duties MFI boards have never had to formalise before.
SIB/62/2026: Ethiopia's Insurance Brokers Now Need a Credentialed CEO, Not Just a Trading Licence
NBE's Licensing of Insurance Broker Directive SIB/62/2026 sets a qualification-and-experience bar for broker CEOs, ties ownership to Ethiopian nationals, and gives existing firms five years to comply. A workforce-readiness guide for HR and L&D leads.
Ethiopia's Insurers Have Six Months to Prove Their Boards Are Fit and Proper
NBE's Directive SIB/63/2026 gives Ethiopian insurers six months to get board members, executives and 2%+ shareholders individually approved as fit and proper, or face fines. It's a competency-evidence problem as much as a legal one.
Building a Whistleblowing Channel People Actually Use
Ethiopia's anti-corruption push means more organisations must show a working whistleblowing channel. A box nobody trusts is worse than none. How to design a speak-up channel people actually use.