05/26/2014
Standard Bank Group, one of Africa’s largest banks, has won accolades from The Banker at the magazine’s annual Deals of the Year Awards 2014, with four notable deals across several regional categories.
05/22/2014
Gaborone and Lusaka are the unlikely settings for a battle between one of the world's most famous investment bankers and his former firm over the future of African banking.
05/22/2014
Banks are also prohibited from granting a foreign currency-denominated loan
05/22/2014
This was just five days after Barclays, the British bank where Diamond was chief executive before he was ousted in 2012
05/21/2014
An economic loss of 4 billion rand was reported in 2014
05/19/2014
The African Development Bank is stepping up plans to finance power and rail projects as China boosts lending on the continent by half.
05/16/2014
Russians take over Zimbabwean Bank
A Russian investment group Horizon Capital Consortium led by businessman Sergey Pokusaev has acquired a controlling stake in the diversified financial company.
05/16/2014
The banking industry appears to be hit harder than others by the prevalence and exposure to cyber crime and fraud
05/16/2014
Most are in Britain, where it has 721 employees, and its EMEA boss Jim Johnston said that will rise further
05/14/2014
A partner at City of London advisory firm Ondra Partners has spun off his own Africa-focused company with the backing for his former employer.
05/14/2014
'We’re negotiating about what we need to be successful' - Absa Capital head.
05/13/2014
The region has all the components to benefit from the next global mining and infrastructure boom
05/13/2014
While FirstRand was focused on organic growth in Zambia, it would also consider acquisitions
05/13/2014
Net interest income for the three months ended 31 March 2014
05/09/2014
Standard Bank Group paid its joint chief executives, Sim Tshabalala and Ben Kruger, more than R28 million each last year
05/08/2014
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria has appointed Barclays Africa Group Limited and Afrinvest as financial advisers for the divestment of its shareholding in Mainstreet Bank Limited.
05/06/2014
The bonds would represent the West African nation's first venture into the international capital markets
05/05/2014
Capitec and Standard Bank have released their full-year integrated reports
05/02/2014
The majority of African banks have weak capital bases which constrain their ability to obtain adequate trade limits
05/01/2014
Thakkar and Diamond were in Rwanda on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the genocideA