Pan-African Banks : Opportunities and Challenges for Cross-Border Oversight.

There has been a rapid expansion of pan-African banks (PABs) in recent years, with seven major PABs having a presence in at least ten African countries: three of these are headquartered in Morocco, two in Togo, and one each in Nigeria and South Africa. Additional banks, primarily from Kenya, Nigeria...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:Policy Papers; Policy Paper ; No. 2014/090
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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