[5] The bank is a subsidiary of the NCBA Group Plc, a financial services group with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Ivory Coast.

[2] In November 2015, the CBA Group, Kenya's largest privately owned financial services provider publicly announced their intention to enter the Rwandan market.

[6] The group applied for a banking licence from the Rwanda authorities.

[7][8] In May 2017, CBA Rwanda, a microfinance institution, made public its intention to acquire Crane Bank Rwanda, a commercial bank, whose parent company in Uganda had been sold and the buyers of the parent did not want to keep the Rwandan subsidiary.

The acquisition required regulatory approval in Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda.