Nigeria: Sanusi gives banks some good news

Benefits from oil, rates, and stock market; Information awaited on financial results and state bad-debt plan

Nigerian central bank governor Lamido Sanusi

Lamido Sanusi: forcing Nigerian banks to clean up their act

In some ways things are looking up for Nigeria’s banks. Oil prices have recovered, central bank governor Lamido Sanusi has cut rates, and net interest margins are increasing. By the end of April the local stock market had risen 30% in 2010. There is hope banks might be able to write back margin loans made against stock investments. Banks wrote down many of these loans at the end of last year, some say aggressively.

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