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The Rwanda Stock Exchange ( No website available), a memer of the African Stock Exchange Association, was founded on January 31st 2011.The RSE is operated under the jurisdiction of Rwanda’s Capital Markets Advisory Council, (CMAC), which in turn reports to National Bank of Rwanda, the country’s Central Bank.Having successfully launched Bralirwa, as its pioneer Initial Public Offering (IPO), the RSE is in preparation for its next IPO which is expected to be Bank of Kigali, coming in Q4:2011.

The RSE operates closely with the three other stock exchanges of the region, the Nairobi Stock Exchange in Kenya, the Dar-es-Salaam Stock Exchange in Tanzania and the Uganda Securities Exchange in Uganda. There are plans are to integrate the four (04) stock exchanges to form a single East African bourse

Equity Bank is a [NSE :EQTY]financial services organization in East Africa with an estimated asset base of over US$1.1 billion.

The Group’s headquarters are located in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, and Uganda, Rwanda and Southern Sudan.

Their  product line consists of loans,mortgages,investments,debit cards and credit cards,mobile banking,retail internet banking.See more here

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