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 13,918 shareholders, and over Birr 3.05 billion paid-up capital. The bank’s total asset has reached over Birr 41.8 billion, mobilized a total outstanding deposit of Birr 40.04 billion and granted a total outstanding loan of over 31.9 billion to customers. Having 330 branches across the country, the bank is able to attract and retain over 2.22 million customers. Lion International Bank has also created job opportunities for 6,759 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 2,425 Anbesa HelloCash agents and about 438,466 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 297,000, 699,000 and 67,000 respectively.