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 […]

Absa in partnership with the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA) today announced the winners of the prestigious Absa L’Atelier competition, which celebrated its 34th year and […]

The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) declined to 45.7 index points in August, down from 52.1 in July. While the magnitude of the decline may have been larger […]

Barclays has kicked off applications to its 2014 Pan Africa Graduate Development Programme (PAGDP) to attract, select and hire high calibre post graduates who will be exposed to technical, financial […]