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Chase Bank deal boosts SBM profits

The new owners of Chase Bank had to increase insurance for bad loans 22 times to accommodate a growing loan book after the lender’s acquisition deal.

The State Bank of Mauritius (SBM), which took up some of Chase’s assets and liabilities in August said in its financial results published yesterday that loan loss provisioning jumped from Sh53 million to Sh1.17 billion in the nine months to September this year.

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