A Comparative Analysis of Banking Products of Ethiopia and Kenya

Ethiopia and Kenya are among the largest states in the horn of Africa in terms of both population and area. This study tries to compare the banking products between Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and some selected Kenyan commercial banks in general and specifically the Moyale area. The study has a main objective of identifying product gaps of CBE to become world class commercial bank by comparison with some Kenyan commercial banks. The main focus of the study is comparing banking products of CBE and selected Kenyan commercial banks not other strategic or budgeting issues of banking activities. The information and data required for the study collected by employing field observation and secondary written documents. Both quantitative and qualitative data is gathered for the study using the above methods. The main findings of the study is the there are a differentiated products offered by the selected Kenyan commercial banks and CBE also has a unique banking products. Kenyan commercial banks have all the required features in one format that is used for deposit, withdrawal and account to account transfer and they avail indoor camera in every branch for opening saving and current account.