AB Bank Rwanda
AB Bank Rwanda (ABR), is a microfinance bank in Rwanda. The bank is one of the licensed banks in the Republic of Rwanda. Overview. ABR is a Rwandan microfinance bank, wholly owned by International institutions, that was established in 2013. It is affiliated with, and is subsidiary of AccessHolding, a commercial microfinance investment and holding company based in Germany, with subsidiaries in Azerbaijan, Madagascar, Tanzania, Nigeria, Liberia, Tajikistan, Zambia and Rwanda. History. The bank was granted a banking license by the National Bank of Rwanda, the national banking regulator, in 2013 and commenced commercial banking services in  the same year. By June 2014, AB Bank Rwanda maintained over 4,000 deposit accounts and more than 1,300 loan accounts. The loan book exceeded RWF:1 billion (US$1.5 million). Ownership. The stock of the bank is privately owned by institutional investors. , the shareholding in the bank is as depicted in the table below: Branch network. As of March 2019, the bank maintains six branches and six credit outlets across the country.