THE PTA Bank says it is looking at possibilities of expanding Islamic banking products to the Zambian market.
Director of project and infrastructure finance James Kabuga says the bank thinks the product will perform well on the market as it will conform to sharia requirement.
“We have a number of countries with strong demand for Islamic product, for instance we are providing this product in Sudan, Egypt, Somalia, and Djibouti. But, we want to roll it out in a much bigger way in other countries including Zambia,” he said.
Mr Kabuga was speaking at a PTA Bank business seminar in Lusaka recently.
He said apart from this product, other products such as funds management, advisory project appraisal service, syndication capacity product and equity will soon be added to the bank’s bouquet of products and services.
“All these products are being developed and will soon be deployed in Zambia and elsewhere where we have presence,” he said.
He further said the firm has done quite a lot in terms of financial support, particularly in the petroleum sector.
The bank has also expanded both trade and project finance in financial service, agriculture business, energy, manufacturing and property development, hospitality, among other sectors.
Mr Kabuga said the bank has continued to have a huge appetite for investments in countries where it has its presence.
PTA Bank is a multi-lateral institution serving various bases in the region with shareholders from 18 African member states from Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Southern African Development Community (SADC) and EAC alongside with the African Development Bank and China as the key institutional and non-regional sovereign member states.
Mr Kabuga said the growth trajectory seen in the past five years gives the bank good platform to readily board on its next phase of growth.
(Zambia Daily Mail / 25 Dec 2012)
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