We show that an essentially amenable Banach algebra need not have an approximate identity. This answers a question posed by Ghahramani and Loy [‘Generalized notions of amenability’, J. Funct. Anal. 208 (2004), 229–260]. Essentially Connes-amenable dual Banach algebras are introduced and studied.
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