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NBE's New Special Economic Zone Directive Means Not Every Bank Can Follow Its Clients In
NBE's Directive No. SBB/99/2026 requires a separate licence, and a prudential eligibility test, before any bank can open a branch inside a special economic zone. A self-test for risk teams before the board discusses it.
Ethiopia Just Scored Its Own AfCFTA Readiness. Here's the Checklist Your Trade Finance Desk Should Run
Ethiopia completed its first AFIRM review of AfCFTA Protocol on Trade in Goods implementation in Bishoftu this August. Here's a five-point self-assessment risk and audit teams can run against the same criteria.
Proclamation No. 1426/2026 Just Put a 48-Hour Clock on Every Ethiopian Bank's Cyber Incidents
Ethiopia's Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Proclamation No. 1426/2026 gives banks 48 hours to report a cyber incident or face a fine. What compliance teams need to build before the one-year grace period ends.
Nine Questions Every Ethiopian Payment Provider's Risk Team Should Be Able to Answer
NBE's ONPS/10/2025 doubled the capital bar, capped ownership and mandated wallet interoperability for Ethiopian payment providers. A risk team's readiness Q&A, from capital adequacy to the 2026-2030 digital payments roadmap.