FNBB Close The Week Trading Over 10 Million Shares
Friday, May 19, 2017
The bank, which has a market capitalisation of P6.87 billion, closed the week 1.8 percent lower and 9.5 percent lower since the start of the year.
Letshego is down by 1.9 percent for the week, extending year to date losses to 8.7percent. Last year the counter dropped as low as P1.80 per share under immerse selling pressure and bounced back after the company bought over 52 million shares from the market, exercising a share buyback programme shareholders had approved. A weaker form of the same trend seems to be in play, and with the ECB expected to tighten its monetary policy, we fear that there might be a flight of capital from emerging and frontier markets in pursuit of rising yields.
That sounds like good news. But the report also warns that this may simply be because our digital economy is still young, not because we are safe. As more people shop, bank and pay online, criminals will follow.We Batswana do not need a report to tell us that danger is real. Many of us have heard of or fallen victim to KYC scams. A caller impersonates your bank or mobile money provider. They say they need to “verify” your account. They ask...