JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Absa Group on Wednesday officially launched Whatsapp banking, in its latest push to become a digitally-led African bank, with more than 10,000 customers already ...

Safaricom PLC is among the companies listed as top employers in the latest Top Employers Institute report. According to a Top ...

Freed from the control of its long-standing shareholder, Barclays, and anticipating the imminent arrival of its new CEO, Absa Bank has, in theory, arrived at the perfect time to come up with a new ...

The sale of Barclays’ African businesses, comprising Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, to Absa was supposed to be a key pillar behind the UK bank’s investment in 2005 in ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. Since 1995, Absa has used ACI's flagship BASE24 software to run a secure ...

Standard Chartered (Stanchart), one of the world’s oldest banks, has also been steadily scaling back from Africa since March ...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Absa Bank-Kenya, Jeremy Awori, will exit the company on October 31, 2022 to pursue other interests. Awori will be leaving the company after ten years. Announcing ...

Ripple , a provider of digital asset infrastructure, announced on Oct. 15 its partnership with Absa Bank to provide digital asset custody services in South Africa. The move is the latest in a series ...

Absa Bank Ghana has launched its Agency Banking proposition, aimed at expanding access to financial services, particularly in peri-urban and rural communities where traditional banking infrastructure ...

Absa Bank Kenya has become the latest tier-one lender to unveil its new loan pricing system, joining a growing rush by financial institutions to comply with a central bank deadline for implementing ...

Addressing this challenge was the focus of the 2025 Mini-MBA Programme, delivered through a partnership between MTN Ghana, Absa Bank Ghana and NOVA School Africa.