By Des H Rikhotso As Ethiopia embarks on an ambitious plan to localize currency production, the continent’s banking landscape reveals a striking concentration of financial power...
Bloomberg | Standard Bank Group Ltd. has named a female Black person to chair Africa’s biggest lender by assets for the first time. Nonkululeko Nyembezi has...
Barclays Africa’s chief executive of regional management and head of strategy Kennedy Bungane has resigned. Bungane is set to leave the Barclays Africa Group Limited this June...
South Africa’s Standard Bank has offices in Ivory Coast and plans to use its presence there as a launchpad to access the rest of francophone West Africa, StarAfrica reports. “Our...
The growth of the African economy is credit to innovations, however basic humanitarian values have the potential to stabilize the growth. “Business people need to balance...
Africa needs to improve its regional and national deficits before it can increase investment from outside the continent. David Humphrey, head of power and infrastructure at...
Nigerian oil and gas firm Seplat has offered 26.4 percent of its shares in a combined market debut in Lagos and London that values the group...
South Africa’s biggest bank, Standard Bank, on Monday said that trade between China and Africa is likely to be over US$200 billion this year. The bank...
Already Africa’s single biggest trading partner, China is set to become the continent’s largest export destination in 2012 according to South African based Standard Bank. The...
South African-based Standard Bank today said it would halve capital allocated to its non-African business as global regulatory changes make some business lines uneconomical. The move...
