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Equity Bank withdraws Ksh 9.5 billion proposed dividend payout

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Equity bank the largest bank on the Nairobi Securities Exchange by market capitalisation has withdrawn a proposed Ksh 9.5 billion dividend payout to it’s shareholders citing market uncertainty.

The withdrawal of the dividend payout speaks to the board of directors assessment of risk, post balance sheet date of December 31, 2019 and of the Group’s approach to prudent risk mitigation and management.

“The Equity Group Holdings Board took a conservative approach that recognizes the emerging unquantified risk of the pandemic and opted to preserve capital in the face of the prevailing uncertainty,” said Dr. James Mwangi, the Group CEO and Managing Director.

He added that, “A strong capital and liquidity position gives us the strength and capacity to cushion our business and accommodate and walk with our customers during these challenging times.”

Further, the Board would like to encourage the Bank’s customers to seek opportunities to innovate in the age of the pandemic, and to keep looking for growth possibilities even in this trying time in order to preserve cash and capital, and to not just survive the crisis but to be ready to thrive in the new normal.

By withdrawing the recommendation for a dividend payout the Board is exercising financial prudence so as to conserve cash to enable the Group to respond appropriately to the unfolding crisis in terms of supporting its customers.

The move will enable the bank to be able to direct cash resources to potential opportunities that may arise as economies in which Equity Group Holdings operates begin to recover.

The COVID-19 global health pandemic has led to a great lockdown which has induced acomplex and multi-faceted global crisis of health, economic, and social challenges of an unprecedented magnitude.

The pandemic’s effects have created a significant drop in the global GDP, and a substantial loss of employment leading to an economic recession which economists are projecting will evolve into a global depression worse than the Great Depression of the 1930’s.

The global economic outlook has worsened considerably since the beginning of the year. The United Kingdom has entered a severe recession last experienced in the 17th Century, while the United States unemployment rate is expected to reach 25% by the end of 2020 with 39.6 million people already unemployed.

The most recent global growth projections from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have revised the global economic outlook to below the 2.9 percent achieved in 2019 from an initial projection of 3.3% to -3.0% (negative 3.0%) of GDP growth rate, which they feel is optimistic.

Cautiously, the IMF also projects that if the pandemic fades in the second half of 2020 and if policy actions taken around the world are effective in preventing widespread bankruptcies, extended job losses, and system-wide financial strains, global growth could rebound to 5.8% in 2021.

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