Dr James Mwangi

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Equity Leadership Program 2025
BUSINESSNEWS

Joining Equity Leadership Program, KCSE Top Performers Share Inspiring Stories

The cohort consists of 350 Wings to Fly Scholars and Elimu Scholars who achieved Grade A and A-minus

Equity Bank diaspora account
BUSINESS

Equity Group Renews Global Digital Money Transfer Partnership

Zepz, the group powering leading global remittance brands such as WorldRemit and Sendwave, and leading provider of digital money transfer services, has renewed...

Equity-Cogebanque acquisition deal
BUSINESS

Inside Details of How Equity Sealed Deal to Acquire Rwandan Bank

Equity Group Holdings (EQH) has completed the acquisition of Rwanda’s Compagnie Générale de Banque, better known as Cogebanque. The banking conglomerate announced that...

Dr James Mwangi
ECONOMY

Equity Bank CEO Vouches For Refugees Creating Wealth

Equity Group Managing Director and CEO, Dr James Mwangi, has called for increased social inclusion of refugees in Africa. In his address to...

Mwangi owns other assets, including stocks in companies such as insurance giant Britam and real estate including a 3-acre piece of land in Muthaiga worth over Ksh600 million. [Photo/ NMG]
BUSINESSFEATURED ARTICLEPERSON OF INTEREST

How James Mwangi Built His Ksh8B Fortune

Equity Group CEO Dr. James Mwangi is among Kenyan bank CEOs who have the much sought after 'skin in the game', with major...

Equity Group CEO Dr. James Mwangi. Equity Group and Cogebank have signed a binding term sheet. [Photo/ NMG]
BUSINESSECONOMY

James Mwangi Makes Ksh6.7B Rwanda Bet

Equity Group is aiming to gain a stronger foothold in the Rwandese market with the newly announced acquisition of Compagnie Générale de Banque...

Equity Bank Kenya CEO Gerald Warui
BUSINESSLEADERSHIP

Gerald Warui: The Little-Known CEO Running Equity Bank Kenya

There is Equity Bank - and there’s Dr James Mwangi.  Yet the two are so synonymous that the substantive CEO running Equity Bank...

Equity Group CEO Dr. James Mwangi is among those who have re-hired Igathe (l) in the past. [Photo/ KEP]
BUSINESSCAREERSFEATURED ARTICLE

3 Times Igathe’s Old Bosses Re-Hired Him

Polycarp Igathe isn't your everyday executive. Nearly everyone who employs him seemingly wants him back every time he leaves a company. Igathe in...

Equity Group CEO Dr. James Mwangi delivering the keynote address at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Kigali, Rwanda on 21st June, 2022. [Photo/ Equity Bank]
BUSINESSMARKETS

Equity Doubles Profits to Ksh40.1 Billion

Equity Group on Wednesday, June 29 made public its financial statements for the full year ended December 31, 2021. The group posted a...