But even though Kenya's equity group, like other banks, has seen profits take a hit, its chief executive James Wang G, is bullish about a recent purchase in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

但儘管肯亞的股權集團和其他銀行一樣，利潤受到了衝擊，但其首席執行官James Wang G卻看好最近在剛果民主共和國的一次收購。

This year, 40% of assets will be outside Kenya, reducing the sovereign risk truly becoming a regional bank.

今年，40%的資產將在肯亞境外，降低主權風險真正成為區域性銀行。

In August, Equity Group completed the $105 million purchase of two thirds of the shares in bank commercial to Congo with a view to amalgamating DRC's oldest bank with its existing Equity Bank Congo subsidiary.

8月，股權集團完成了對剛果商業銀行三分之二股份的1.05億美元收購，以期將剛果（金）最古老的銀行與其現有的股權銀行剛果子公司合併。

We think B.

我們認為B．

C.

C.

D.

D.

C.

C.

On equity combined together will be a $2.5 billion balance sheet by the end of this year, Marangi says.

馬蘭吉說，在股權上加在一起，到今年年底將是25億美元的資產負債表。

That's put equities balance sheet on course for the one trillion mark by the end of the year.

這就使得股票資產負債表在年底前有望突破一萬億大關。

One trillion Kenyan shillings that is or around $9 billion.

一萬億肯亞先令，也就是90億美元左右。

I'm really glad that we proved entry and conservatively fortified our balance sheet.

我真的很高興，我們證明了進入和保守地加強了我們的資產負債表。

But the CEO also acknowledges that the banking sector faces a difficult future but undoubtedly will see the banks are going through lean times, maybe for the next two years, Marangi says.

但這位CEO也承認，銀行業面臨著艱難的未來，但無疑會看到銀行正在經歷瘦身期，也許在未來兩年內，馬蘭吉說。

Lock down measures have affected around 45% of equities customers.

鎖定措施影響了約45%的股票客戶。

The banks loan loss provisions grew 11 fold to 14.3 billion shillings in the first nine months of the year.

今年前9個月，銀行貸款損失準備金增長11倍，達到143億先令。

Over the same period, it saw a 20% drop in pretax profit to 19.8 billion shillings, or around 180 million U.

同期，它的稅前利潤下降了20%，為198億先令，約合1.8億美。

S.

S.

Dollars.

美元。