Licensed banks and lenders in Sub-Saharan Africa
For debt financing (investment loans, working capital, leasing), these are the institutions licensed to lend in each country. Every list comes from the regulator's official register (BCEAO, COBAC, central banks), with its link and date.
2636
licensed institutions
29
countries covered
520
banks and development finance institutions
By country
Benin
14 banks · 14 institutions in total· partial register
Burkina Faso
16 banks · 18 institutions in total· partial register
Burundi
15 banks · 95 institutions in total
Cameroon
19 banks · 19 institutions in total· partial register
Cape Verde
8 banks · 8 institutions in total· partial register
Comoros
4 banks · 7 institutions in total· partial register
Congo-Brazzaville
9 banks · 31 institutions in total
Côte d'Ivoire
29 banks · 30 institutions in total· partial register
Djibouti
14 banks · 18 institutions in total
DRC
18 banks · 132 institutions in total
Ethiopia
32 banks · 88 institutions in total
Gambia
11 banks · 86 institutions in total
Ghana
0 bank · 37 institutions in total· partial register
Guinea
20 banks · 20 institutions in total· partial register
Guinea-Bissau
6 banks · 6 institutions in total· partial register
Kenya
38 banks · 305 institutions in total
Liberia
10 banks · 10 institutions in total· partial register
Mali
14 banks · 15 institutions in total· partial register
Mauritius
18 banks · 22 institutions in total
Niger
14 banks · 15 institutions in total· partial register
Nigeria
44 banks · 996 institutions in total
Rwanda
11 banks · 420 institutions in total
Sao Tomé-et-Principe
5 banks · 7 institutions in total
Senegal
29 banks · 30 institutions in total· partial register
Seychelles
8 banks · 10 institutions in total
Sierra Leone
32 banks · 101 institutions in total
Tanzania
39 banks · 43 institutions in total· partial register
Togo
14 banks · 14 institutions in total· partial register
Uganda
29 banks · 39 institutions in total
Types of institutions
- Commercial banks485
- Development finance institutions19
- Merchant banks5
- Credit institutions11
- Finance companies152
- Microfinance banks810
- Microfinance institutions233
- Savings and loans, credit cooperatives292
- Other licensed lenders (mortgage, digital credit…)629
Registers being collected
These countries will be added once their official register has been collected: Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Gabon, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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