About CBE

I cannot hold back my excitement for re-joining the lovely and the true bankers’ community of my birth place as a banker—the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) after 11 years physical separation. I remember, like it is today, the passion with which the Executive Vice President of the CBE at that time introduced the Bank to us while we were yet to graduate gathering us all graduating class students of Addis Ababa University on our FBE campus. Mr Habtesilasie had eloquently briefed us that CBE was the biggest institution in the country that had a very tall growth ladder which we cannot finish climbing before we got old with a very wide span of control horizontally which could give us tremendous alternatives of choice to work in. His very professional statements and visible passion had inspired and convinced me to work only for the CBE despite over sixty best offers of employment (due to very few graduates in the market) at that time. I think I have made the right choice without bothering to compare CBE with other alternatives that were trying to tempt unlike many of our friends who opted but were struggling to choose.

Read More