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Cleaning Ecobank books sends lender into losses

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The tough accounting measures the new management at Ecobank has adopted have driven the lender to a Sh2 billion loss.

The bank has factored in bad loans and written off expectations from revised earnings on Government bonds once, instead of staggering the losses over years.

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