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Official Zemen Bank S.C

@OfficialZemenBankSC

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9,045subscribers

+354 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001822807056
TypeChannel
Username@OfficialZemenBankSC
DescriptionZemen Bank S.C is all about giving customers choice and convenience. Driving the future financial services experience.
CreatedBetween 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live7 November 2026
Measurements held26
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 7 November 2026
On Telegramt.me/OfficialZemenBankSC

Topic

Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 96% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.

Growth

8,6919,0458,8687 August 2026 — 8,691 subscribers7 August 2026 — 8,691 subscribers10 August 2026 — 8,701 subscribers14 August 2026 — 8,716 subscribers17 August 2026 — 8,731 subscribers20 August 2026 — 8,739 subscribers23 August 2026 — 8,752 subscribers26 August 2026 — 8,754 subscribers29 August 2026 — 8,761 subscribers1 September 2026 — 8,770 subscribers5 September 2026 — 8,784 subscribers10 September 2026 — 8,816 subscribers13 September 2026 — 8,825 subscribers17 September 2026 — 8,834 subscribers27 September 2026 — 8,872 subscribers5 October 2026 — 8,911 subscribers12 October 2026 — 8,977 subscribers15 October 2026 — 8,998 subscribers17 October 2026 — 9,000 subscribers20 October 2026 — 9,011 subscribers23 October 2026 — 9,016 subscribers26 October 2026 — 9,017 subscribers28 October 2026 — 9,028 subscribers31 October 2026 — 9,024 subscribers4 November 2026 — 9,026 subscribers7 November 2026 — 9,045 subscribers7 August 20267 November 2026
26 measurements spanning 91 days, net +354. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 8,638–9,098 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 26
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
7 Nov 2026, 00:569,045+19
4 Nov 2026, 06:489,026+2
31 Oct 2026, 20:019,024-4
28 Oct 2026, 22:569,028+11
26 Oct 2026, 03:269,017+1
23 Oct 2026, 08:359,016+5
20 Oct 2026, 16:069,011+11
17 Oct 2026, 22:349,000+2
15 Oct 2026, 06:268,998+21
12 Oct 2026, 11:498,977+66
5 Oct 2026, 13:548,911+39
27 Sept 2026, 08:388,872+38
17 Sept 2026, 19:408,834+9
13 Sept 2026, 18:588,825+9
10 Sept 2026, 02:188,816+32
5 Sept 2026, 00:178,784+14
1 Sept 2026, 09:548,770+9
29 Aug 2026, 14:048,761+7
26 Aug 2026, 17:178,754+2
23 Aug 2026, 22:168,752first reading

Engagement

29 posts held, back to 24 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 38 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
40.1%
avg views ÷ 9,045 subscribers
Avg views / post
3,620
11 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.429%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
11
of 29 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 7 November 2026
Posts held29 (24 July 2026 – 7 November 2026)
Views total39,860
Reactions total171
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken8 Nov 2026, 11:25 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Photos
530
Videos
103
Links
368

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 8 November 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.

Video runtime
15m 53s
Average length
1m 27s

Measured directly from 11 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.

Reaction mix

580 reactions across 27 posts, in 6 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 47.4% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
❤27547.4%
🔥16127.8%
👍12321.2%
👏142.41%
👎50.862%
🥰20.345%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 27 of the 29 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 580 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 29 most recent posts we hold, published 24 July 2026 to 7 November 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 2 of 11 posts held from the last 30 days (18.2%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).

7 Nov 2026, 07:03 UTC≈1,190 views9 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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የዘመን ባንክ ማኅበራዊ ሚዲያዎችን በመቀላቀል ስለ አዳዲስ የባንክ አገልግሎቶቻችንና የግል የፋይናንስ ፍላጎቶችዎን የሚያሟሉ መረጃዎች በትኩሱ ያግኙ። *** ቤተሰብይሁኑ: Facebook: https://bit.ly/47Q7GeR LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3NmAmnE Twitter: https://bit.ly/48fi5AA Instagram: https://bit.ly/3RmlUNP YouTube: https://bit.ly/47U4sqI Telegram: https://bit.ly/48fs1dE *** #ዘመንባንክ #Information #Digitalinformation #ZemenBank

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2 Nov 2026, 15:05 UTC≈2,680 views21 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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በስዊድንና በኢትዮጵያ መካከል የ80 ዓመት የዲፕሎማሲያዊ ግንኙነት መታሰቢያና ብሔራዊ ቀን ተከበረ፤ ዘመን ባንክ የዝግጅቱ አጋር ነበር ፤ ዘመን ባንክ በስዊድንና በኢትዮጵያ መካከል የ80 ዓመታት የዲፕሎማሲያዊ ግንኙነት መታሰቢያና ብሔራዊ ቀን ጥቅምት 20 ቀን 2019 ዓ.ም በኤምባሲው ቅጥር ግቢ ሲከበር የዝግጅቱ አጋር ሆኗል፡፡ ሚ/ር ማግነስ ሌናርትሰን በኢትዮጵያ የስዊድን አምባሳደር ባደረጉት የመክፈቻ ንግግር ላይ ባለፉት አስርት ዓመታት ሀገራቸው ከኢትዮጵያ ጋር ጠንካራ ዲፕሎማሲያዊና የኢኮኖሚ ትብብር መገንባቷን ገልጸዋል፡፡ በመርሃግብሩ ላይ ዘመን ባንክ ለዝግጅቱ ስለሰጠው ድጋፍ እውቅና ተሰጥቶታል። በዕለቱ የዲፕሎማቲክ ማህበረሰብ አባላት፣ የመንግሥት …

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31 Oct 2026, 08:05 UTC≈2,780 views11 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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የአነስተኛና መካከለኛ ንግድ ተቋማት ተጨባጭ እድገት ከፋይናንስ አቅርቦት ተጨማሪ ተግባራዊ እውቀትና የልምድ ልውውጥን ይጠይቃል። ቤተልሔም ብሩክ በለጠ ማዚላን ትሬዲንግ-መስራችና ማኔጂንግ ዳይሬክተር በዘመን ባንክ አጋርነት የተዘጋጀው የአቅም ግንባታ ስልጠና ፕሮግራም ከጠበቅነው መሰረታዊ የኤክስፖርት ዝግጁነት ግንዛቤ በተጨማሪ የተሟላና በቂ ስልጠና በመሆን ከግምታችን በላይ ሆኖ አግኝተነዋል። በንግዱ ዘርፍ ላይ ያለንን እውቀት እንድናሳድግ እንዲሁም ወደ ላቀ ደረጃ እንድንሸጋገር በተዘጋጀው ስልጠና ተሳታፊ በመሆናችንም ዘመን ባንክን እናመሰግናለን። #ዘመንባንክ #SMEs #CustomerTestimony #CapacityBuilding #Trainees #MazilanT…

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29 Oct 2026, 10:59 UTC≈3,030 views23 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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ዘመን ባንክ አገልግሎት መስጠት ከጀመረበት ጊዜ ጀምሮ አገልግሎቱን በጥራትና በልዩነት ለደንበኞቹ እንደሚያቀርብ ይታወቃል። በመሆኑም የዚ-ቀመር ከወለድ ነፃ የባንክ አገልግሎት ከጠበኩት በላይ ፈጣን፣ ግልፅ እና ለአጠቃቀም ምቹ ሆኖ አግኝቸዋለው። አብዱላዚዝ ሰኢድ የዘመን ባንክ ከወለድ ነፃ የባንክ አገልግሎት ደንበኛ ዘመን ባንክ በአገልግሎቱ የላቀ ከፍታ ላይ እንደደረሰ ይታወቃል፤ በዚህም ከወለድ ነፃ የባንክ አገልግሎት የሚፈልጉ አዲስም ሆነ ነባር ደንበኞች ከባንኩ ጋር በመጣመር፣ እውቀትና ልምዳቸውን በማካፈል አብረው እንዲሰሩ ጥሪዬን አስተላልፋለሁ። #ዘመንባንክ #ዚቀመር #IFB #CustomerTestimony #BethelBC #ZQamar #ZemenBank

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27 Oct 2026, 10:51 UTC≈3,310 views20 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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የተከበራችሁ ደንበኞቻችን፤ ያስተውሉ ከሂሳብዎ ጋር በተያያዘ ያልተለመደ መልዕክት ከደረሰዎት፣ ምላሽ አይስጡ። ዘመን ባንክ ያልታወቁ ሊንኮችን እንዲጫኑ ወይም የግል መረጃዎን እንዲያጋሩ ፈጽሞ አይጠይቅዎትም። ዘመን ባንክ የላቀ አገልግሎት ማዕከል! *** ቤተሰብ ይሁኑ : Facebook: https://bit.ly/47Q7GeR LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3NmAmnE X: https://bit.ly/48fi5AA Instagram: https://bit.ly/3RmlUNP YouTube: https://bit.ly/47U4sqI Telegram: https://bit.ly/48fs1dE *** #ዘመንባንክ #FraudPreventation #SecurityAwarness #Cam…

❤10🔥6👍4

24 Oct 2026, 05:54 UTC≈3,600 views10 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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አነስተኛና መካከለኛ ተቋማት ለሀገራችን ኢኮኖሚ ዕድገት ቁልፍ ሚና ያላቸው ሲሆን ለኮርፖሬት ተቋማትም ጥሩ አጋሮች መሆን ይችላሉ። ሆኖም በርካታ ተቋማት በልማዳዊ የአሠራር ዘይቤዎች በመመራታቸው ምክንያት ሙሉ አቅማቸውን አውጥተው ለመጠቀምና የሚያጋጥሟቸውን የፋይናንስ እንዲሁም የአወቃቀር ተግዳሮቶች ለመወጣት ሲቸገሩ ይስተዋላል። አሸናፊ ብርሃኑ ተች ዩር ቪዥን አማካሪ - ማኔጂንግ ዳይሬክተር ዘመን ባንክ ይህንን ክፍተት ለመሙላትና እነዚህ ተቋማት ተወዳዳሪና ስኬታማ እንዲሆኑ አስፈላጊውን አቅም የመገንባት (Capacity Building) እንዲሁም የዘመናዊ አሠራር ድጋፎችን በማድረግ ሙሉ ቁርጠኝነትን በማሳየቱና ይህ ትልቅ ስራ እውን እንዲሆን ላደረጉት የዘመን ባ…

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22 Oct 2026, 06:15 UTC≈3,620 views11 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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በላቀ የሙያ ብቃት እና ጥራት የሚሰጠውን የ “ዚ-ቀመር” ከወለድ ነፃ የባንክ አገልግሎት በቤተል ቅርንጫፍ አገልግሎት መስጠት መጀመራችንን በታላቅ ደስታ እንገልፃለን። የሱፍ ጠይብ ሥራ አስኪያጅ - ቤተል ቅርንጫፍ በቤተል አካባቢ የምትገኙ ነዋሪዎችንና የንግድ ባለቤቶችን ጨምሮ ነባር ወይም አዳዲስ ደንበኞችን የ “ዚ-ቀመር” ከወለድ ነፃ የባንክ አገልግሎትን እንድትጠቀሙ በአክብሮት እንጋብዛለን። #ዘመንባንክ #ዚቀመር #IFB #Launching #BethelBC #ZQamar #ZemenBank

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20 Oct 2026, 13:04 UTC≈4,310 views16 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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ዘመን ባንክ የአነስተኛና መካከለኛ ኢንተርፕራይዞችን አቅም ለመገንባት እየሠራ መሆኑን አስታወቀ ዘመን ባንክ አነስተኛና መካከለኛ ኢንተርፕራይዞችን በፋይናንስና በአቅም ግንባታ በመደገፍ አብሮ በመሥራት ላይ እንደሚገኝ አቶ አዲስ ወልደ ጨርቆስ የዋና ሥራ አስፈጻሚ ተወካይና የብድር ቺፍ ኦፊሰር አስታወቁ፡፡ አቶ አዲስ ወልደጨርቆስ እንደገለጹት፤ ዘመን ባንክ ከአጋር ኩባንያዎች ጋር በመተባበር በወጪ ንግድ ላይ አተኩረው በቆዳና በግብርና ምርቶች ማቀነባበር ላይ ለተሰማሩ የተለያዩ ኢንተርፕራይዞች የአቅም ግንባታ ስልጠና ከሰጠ በኋላ ለተወሰኑት ብድር እንዲያገኙ ተደርጓል፡፡ አብዛኞቹ ኢንተርፕራይዞች ደግሞ ከባንኩ ጋር በመሥራት ላይ ናቸው፡፡ ይህን ጥረቱን በማጠናከ…

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15 Oct 2026, 12:15 UTC≈4,540 views17 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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ለክቡራትና ክቡራን ደንበኞቻችን፤ የይለፍ ቃልዎን ለመጠበቅና አካውንትዎን ለመከላከል፤ የይለፍ ቃሎችን በድረ ገጾች፣ በኮምፒተርዎ፣ በሞባይል ስልክዎና በሌሎችም ተንቀሳቃሽ መሣሪያዎችዎ ላይ ከማስቀመጥ ይቆጠቡ። የባንክ መረጃ አያያዝ መንገድዎን በየጊዜው ይከልሱ፣ የተከማቹ የይለፍ ቃሎችን በሙሉ ይሰርዙና እነዚህን የይለፍ ቃሎች ወዲያውኑ ይለውጡ። ዘመን ባንክ የላቀ አገልግሎት ማዕከል! *** ቤተሰብ ይሁኑ: LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3NmAmnE X: https://bit.ly/48fi5AA Instagram: https://bit.ly/3RmlUNP YouTube: https://bit.ly/47U4sqI Telegram: https://bit.ly/48fs1dE ***…

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14 Oct 2026, 07:29 UTC≈4,580 views6 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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የዘመን ባንክ ዚ-ቀመር ለደንበኞች ተዋወቀ፤ ዘመን ባንክ "ዚ-ቀመር" በሚል ስያሜ የጀመረውን ከወለድ ነጻ የባንክ አገልግሎት ለደንበኞችና ለባለድርሻ አካላት አስተዋወቀ፡፡ #ዘመንባንክ #ዚቀመር #IFB #Service #Products #Excellence #ZQamar #ZemenBank

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10 Oct 2026, 06:42 UTC≈6,220 views27 reactionsread 8 November 2026
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የዘመን ባንክ ዚ-ቀመር ለደንበኞች ተዋወቀ፤ ዘመን ባንክ "ዚ-ቀመር" በሚል ስያሜ የጀመረውን ከወለድ ነጻ የባንክ አገልግሎት ለደንበኞችና ለተገልጋዮች አስተዋወቀ፡፡ "ዚ-ቀመር" ዘመን ባንክ ተለይቶ በሚታወቅበት የላቀ የቀይ ምንጣፍ የደንበኞች አገልግሎት የተለያዩ ከወለድ ነጻ አማራጮችን ይዞ መቅረቡንና በበርካታ ቅርንጫፎች ልዩ ዴስክ በማዘጋጀት እያገለገለ መሆኑን አቶ አስራት ታደሰ የዘመን ባንክ የሪቴል ባንኪንግ ቺፍ ኦፊሰር ተናግረዋል፡፡ እንዲሁም አቶ አብዱልቃድር ወለላ የዘመን ባንክ ከወለድ ነጻ የባንክ አገልግሎት መምሪያ ዳይሬክተር በዚ-ቀመር የሚሰጡ አገልግሎቶችን አስመልክቶ ዝርዝር ማብራሪያ ያቀረቡ ሲሆን ሙሉ ሥራው በአማካሪ ቦርድ እየተደገፈ የሸሪያ…

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8 Oct 2026, 13:09 UTC≈4,730 views17 reactionsread 6 November 2026
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የዘመን ባንክ የባለአክሲዮኖች ዓመታዊ ስብሰባ፤ 🗓️ መስከረም 26፤ 2019 📍 አዲስ ኢንተርናሽናል ኮንቬንሽን ሴንተር *** ቤተሰብ ይሁኑ : Facebook: https://bit.ly/47Q7GeR LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3NmAmnE X: https://bit.ly/48fi5AA Instagram: https://bit.ly/3RmlUNP YouTube: https://bit.ly/47U4sqI Telegram: https://bit.ly/48fs1dE *** #ዘመንባንክ #ShareholdersMeeting #EarningPerShare #Asset #Profit #ZemenBank

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