Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) says it is committed to continuing its operations in South Sudan.
The confirmation from KCB follows weeks of fighting that has highlighted the dangers businesses face when expanding into the world’s newest country, which analysts say now threatens to become the world’s next failed state.
"Most of the bank branches are operational...with only three remaining closed in Bor, Bentiu and Malakal," said Charity Muya-Ngaruiya, chair of the board of KCB South Sudan.
Bor Bentiu and Malakal are the three capital cities of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile States, which have seen the worst violence.
KCB has a network of 22 branches in South Sudan.
The 22 branches generated 9 percent of the group's 15.2 billion shillings ($176.44 million) pretax profit for the first nine months of last year.
The scope for banks to expand into South Sudan could be huge as there is no banking at all in most rural areas of the country of 11 million people.