03/06/2019

Nedbank headline earnings up 14.5%

Nedbank, which employs 31,277 people, said it increased its retail main-banked clients by 7%, giving it a market share up to 13.1%.

03/04/2019

Absa unit acquires sister company’s life insurance business

The move to acquire the portfolio comes close to four years after Barclays Africa, now Absa Group, bought a controlling stake in First Assurance for about Sh2.9 billion as the Johannesburg-based lender sought to gain a foothold in Kenya’s insurance

02/13/2019

EIB invests US$3.74bn in Africa’s priority sectors

“Looking ahead, as the world’s largest IFI financier of digitalisation the EIB is strengthening its cooperation with African and international partners to support digital transformation and the reduction of the gender digital divide across the

02/11/2019

South Africa takes huge economic leap

The agreement “offers great opportunities to place South Africa on a path of investment-led trade and to work with other African countries to develop their own industrial capacity”, said Ramaphosa.