{"id":278942,"date":"2019-06-15T02:36:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T06:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvZGlhc3BvcmFzLWdldC10aHVtYnMtdmVudHVyZS1iYW5raW5n0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:15:51","slug":"a-draft-bill-would-let-ethiopian-diaspora-investors-enter-the-banking-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278942","title":{"rendered":"A draft bill would let Ethiopian diaspora investors enter the banking sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 June 2019 The Reporter Ethiopia said a draft bill amending the restrictive banking and financial-services law had been tabled in the House so that diaspora Ethiopians could invest in banks under new rules.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A draft bill would let Ethiopian diaspora investors enter the banking sector\" \/>\n<p>The proposal sat beside other financial-sector openings and marked a formal attempt to draw diaspora capital into domestic banking after years of closed ownership rules.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as banking-reform archive, the Reporter story dates the June 2019 diaspora banking draft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/diasporas-get-thumbs-venture-banking\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diasporas get thumbs up to venture into banking&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaA new draft bill, which was designed to amend the existing, restrictive banking and financial services proclamation, has been tabled before the House of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1az4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755228,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278942\/revisions\/755228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}