Girum Assefa

Lion International Bank S.C.

Lion International Bank (LIB), established on October 2, 2006 G.C and went operational on 6, January 2007 having 3,739 founding shareholders, subscribed capital of Birr 432.5 million and paid-up capital of Birr 108.2 million. Currently, LIB has over 12,000 shareholders, and over Birr 2.5 billion paid-up capital. The bank's total asset has reached over Birr 32 billion, mobilized a total outstanding deposit of Birr 25 billion and granted a total outstanding loan of over 23 billion to customers. Having 278 branches across the country, the bank is able to attract and retain over 1.4 million customers. Lion International Bank has also created job opportunities for 2,753 individuals at various capacities. LIB is the frontier financial institution in the introduction and provision of late hour service until 7:00 PM and provision of agency banking digital service to the economy through Anbesa HelloCash platform. At present, the bank has over 3,400 Anbesa HelloCash agents and about 637,000 agent banking customers. It is also providing state of the art mobile, internet and card banking services. Our Card banking, Mobile banking, and Internet banking users have reached to 204,000, 301,000 and 2,000 respectively.