StanChart CEO Winters Wants to `Take a Look' at Ethiopia Banking

  • Ethiopia bank sector closed to investors for four decades
  • ‘It’d be nice if we could get in and take a look:’ Winters
Bill WintersPhotographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg
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One emerging market has so far eluded Standard Chartered Plc Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters: Ethiopia.

Winters, head of London-based Standard Chartered since mid-2015, would “love to think that there are opportunities” in Ethiopia, he said in an interview in Nairobi, Kenya. The problem is that it’s entirely closed to foreign banks.