Dashen Bank was founded by eleven visionary shareholders and veteran bankers with initial capital of Birr 14.9 million in September 1995. Upon securing license from the National Bank of Ethiopia, Dashen opened its doors for service on the 1st of January 1996 with eleven fully-fledged branches.

Dashen Bank coined its name from the highest peak in Ethiopia, mount Dashen, and aspires to be ‘’Best in class Bank in Africa’’. The Bank aimed to be among the leading banks in Africa and it will extend its reach across Africa both for competitive benchmarking and business.

Ras Dashen is Part of the Simien Mountains National Park, an exotic setting with unique wildlife and breath-taking views on a landscape shaped by nature and traditional agriculture. The Simien Mountains is home to endemic wild life including the Walia Ibex, Simien Fox or Ethiopian Wolf and the Gelada Baboon. Dashen aspires to set new heights in banking services through the delivery of unique value propositions second to none.

Headquartered in Addis Ababa, the Bank is among the biggest private Banks in Ethiopia. Dashen is the most reputable brand in the domestic banking market; a reputation earned Ethiopia. It operates through a network of more than 860 plus Branches, nine dedicated Forex Bureaus, 930 plus ATMs and 2,300 plus Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals spread across the length and breadth of the nation. Wherever business takes customers around the world, Dashen Bank is already there.

The Bank also works in partnership with leading brands in the electronic payments industry (AMEX, VISA, MasterCard &UnionPay) and prominent money transfer operators (Western Union, MoneyGram, Transfast, Ria, World Remit, EthioDash and Mamy Money Transfer).

Dashen Bank is the first bank in Ethiopia to provide a full-fledged payment card service as a principal plus member of AMEX, VISA, MasterCard and Union Pay (as the first African Bank to sign such agreement). The Bank also issues international debit cards dubbed Dashen Mastercard

The Bank issues AMEX branded debit cards that give clients the added convenience of round-the-clock banking through Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and conduct purchases at a growing number of merchant locations via point of sale terminals (POS). Dashen is exclusively acquires and issues American Express cards in Ethiopia.

Dashen provides Salary Card for staff of institutions who opt to relieve themselves of the hassle related to handling salary payment.

Dashen Bank renders a full-fledged Shariah-complaint interest free banking services named ‘Sharik’.The services are overseen by a Shariah Advisory Committee with solid background and working experience in islamic teaching, Shariah-complaint economy and finance.

The Bank provides IFB services in dedicated windows found in its conventional branches and through 70+ full-fledged IFB branches and 1 million+ customers. AOIFI located across the Country.

The Bank also provides SharikCard to all Sharik account holders to operate accounts 24/7 on ATM and merchant POS and An-NissaCard to all women’s having An-nissa account to operate accounts 24/7 on ATM and merchant POS.

It is Dashen Banks’ Omni channel banking service which offers digital payment capability and access to aggregated digital products and services from Retailers, the Entertainment Industry, Airtime Dealers, Bill Payment Points, Airlines, Social Media Players and third-party service providers.

The service is available on both smart phones and ordinary mobile sets using USSD. The USSD gateway for Dashen Bank’s mobile money services is *996#.