Absa has today confirmed its sale of the Edcon store card debtors’ book to RCS Group, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance, subject to regulatory approvals. The transaction includes […]

South Africa has for the third year running, claimed top position among 20 African countries ranked by the Absa Africa Financial Markets Index in terms of financial markets development. This […]

We have partnered with the Maharishi Institute (MI) to set up the Absa Cybersecurity Academy to address a skills shortage. The programme is an externally focused, corporate social responsibility initiative […]

Absa Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) was recently appointed by Bayport Management Ltd (Bayport) to be the joint book runner in the first ever USD social bond to be issued […]

Absa Bank Limited (“Absa”) acted as Joint Global Coordinator, Bookrunner, Mandated Lead Arranger and Facility Agent on the refinance and upsize of Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited’s (“Harmony”) existing U$350m […]

Absa Group Limited today became one of the Founding Signatories of the Principles for Responsible Banking, committing to strategically align its business with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris […]

Two of Absa Group’s subsidiaries have been named overall winners of the Market Leader Award in the 2019 Euromoney Cash Management Survey. Barclays Ghana and Barclays Zambia were each ranked […]

Absa Group Ltd. advises of the appointment of Swithin J. Munyantwali, currently chairman of the Barclays Bank of Uganda board, as non-executive director to the Absa Group Ltd. board with […]

WorkInProgress, Absa’s Innovation Lab, hosted a hackathon in Cape Town last week where students, business and academia came together to develop ideas on what Africa can do to influence the […]

We have noted with grave concern the incidents of violence and looting in parts of Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa. The violence, which has also been directed at foreign […]