Cooperative Bank of South Sudan
Cooperative Bank of South Sudan is a commercial bank headquartered in Juba and supervised by the Bank of South Sudan.
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Overview
Cooperative Bank of South Sudan is a commercial banking institution based in Juba, South Sudan. It operates within the regulatory framework established by the Bank of South Sudan, the country's central bank and banking supervisor. The available reference material identifies the institution as a member of Cooperative Bank Group, a Nairobi-headquartered financial-services group with operations in Kenya and South Sudan. The South Sudanese bank forms part of the group's regional structure alongside several Kenyan and group-affiliated businesses. The cited group companies include Kingdom Securities Limited, Co-opTrust Investment Services Limited, Co-operative Consultancy Services Kenya Limited, and CIC Insurance Group Limited. The reference material reports that Cooperative Bank Group held a 51% shareholding in Cooperative Bank of South Sudan, making the South Sudanese institution a controlled subsidiary within the wider group rather than an independently described listed company. The bank's headquarters are in Juba, the capital and largest city of South Sudan. The reference material also describes plans for four additional branches in Juba, although it does not establish whether those planned locations were subsequently opened. No reliable information in the supplied material identifies the bank's founding year, founder, chief executives, website, detailed ownership table, product names, or current branch footprint beyond the Juba headquarters and the reported expansion plan. As a commercial bank, its broad institutional role is to provide banking services in South Sudan, but the available source does not provide a sufficiently detailed, current catalogue of accounts, lending products, payment services, digital channels, or corporate offerings. It is therefore more accurate to describe the brand by its regulated banking role and its connection to Cooperative Bank Group than to attribute specific products or market claims to it. The bank's position is regional and institutionally affiliated: it represents the Cooperative Bank Group's presence in South Sudan while operating under South Sudanese banking regulation. The supplied reference does not provide evidence about market share, customer numbers, financial performance, current executive leadership, marketing campaigns, scandals, litigation, acquisitions, or product launches. Those areas remain undocumented in this dossier.
History
Cooperative Bank of South Sudan is described in the available reference material as a commercial bank headquartered in Juba. Its operations fall under the licensing and supervisory authority of the Bank of South Sudan, which serves as the country's central bank and national banking regulator. The supplied material does not state when the institution was founded or provide a detailed account of its establishment, early management, or initial capitalization. The bank is presented as part of Cooperative Bank Group, whose headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya. The group has a regional structure spanning Kenya and South Sudan and includes banking, securities, investment-services, consultancy, and insurance-related entities. The named affiliated companies include Kingdom Securities Limited, Co-opTrust Investment Services Limited, Co-operative Consultancy Services Kenya Limited, and CIC Insurance Group Limited. Within this structure, Cooperative Bank of South Sudan is identified as a South Sudan-based group company. The available ownership information reports that Cooperative Bank Group held 51% of Cooperative Bank of South Sudan. This indicates majority group ownership and places the South Sudanese bank within the parent group's cross-border expansion model. The reference does not provide the names of the other shareholders or enough information to reconstruct the complete ownership table reliably. Juba serves as the bank's headquarters and is also identified as South Sudan's capital and largest city. The source states that four other branches were planned in Juba. Because the material describes these locations as planned rather than confirmed operating branches, the current branch network cannot be established from the supplied evidence. The bank's history is therefore documented primarily through its regulatory identity, group affiliation, ownership relationship, and planned local expansion. The supplied references do not establish a founding date, leadership chronology, major strategic decisions, product history, campaigns, financial results, regulatory sanctions, litigation, or later corporate developments. The parent group was reported in the reference as having a substantial consolidated asset base and shareholders' equity in December 2013, but those figures describe the wider Cooperative Bank Group rather than the South Sudanese bank and are not treated here as current or bank-specific financial data.
Established as a South Sudanese commercial bank
[1]The available reference identifies Cooperative Bank of South Sudan as a commercial bank operating in South Sudan, but does not provide a founding year or establishment narrative.
Integrated into Cooperative Bank Group
[1]The bank became part of the Nairobi-headquartered Cooperative Bank Group, which the reference identifies as holding a 51% shareholding in the South Sudanese institution.
Juba branch expansion planned
[1]The reference describes plans for four additional branches in Juba. It does not confirm whether the planned branches were opened.
Products and positioning
A regulated South Sudanese commercial bank associated with the Nairobi-based Cooperative Bank Group.
Commercial banking
Commercial banking services
The bank is characterized in the available reference as a commercial bank serving the South Sudanese market. Specific deposit, lending, payments, treasury, digital-banking, or corporate-banking products are not identified in the supplied material, so no narrower product claims are made.
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