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Absa Group in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2018. Finweek Bank Charges Reports from 2008 through 2010 [19] found Barclays Africa Group Holdings Limited to be the most expensive bank in South Africa. [20] [21] [22] Pay-as-you-transact (PAYT) fees increased 82 percent from 2005 to 2010. [21]
This is a list of commercial banks and other credit institutions in South Africa, as updated late 2024 by the Reserve Bank of South Africa. [1] [2]
Absa Group changed its name to Barclays Africa Group. [7] In 2016, Barclays Bank Plc, which owned 62.3 percent of Barclays Africa Group (BAG), the then parent company of Absa Bank Limited (the South African subsidiary), decided to divest its majority shareholding in BAG, worth £3.5 billion at that time. [8] In 2017 Barclays reduced its ...
The complex was designed by Gemmu Fernando of the Design Group Five International (Pvt) Ltd [2] and constructed by Tudawe Brothers Limited. Construction of the three-storey 13,000 m 2 (140,000 sq ft) shopping complex, with 88 tenancies, developed around a central atrium was completed in 1991 and formally opened on 4 April.
Ahli United Bank; Al Watany Bank of Egypt; Arab Bank; Arab Banking Corporation; Bank Audi; Bank of Alexandria; Bank of Nova Scotia; Banque du Caire; Banque Misr
Due to a disinvestment campaign against South Africa because of its apartheid policies, Barclays was forced to reduce its shareholding and sold its shareholding in the bank in 1986. The bank was renamed "First National Bank of Southern Africa Limited" on 30 September 1987 and became a wholly South African owned and controlled by Anglo-American ...
By 2001, the bank had become a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays. [15] Since March 2016, the bank has been wholly owned by the Barclays Africa Group. [16] With the re-branding of Barclays Africa Group, in 2018, Absa Bank Uganda is a 100 percent subsidiary of Absa Group Limited. [17]
With the liberalization of the economy in the 1990s, Barclays Bank Plc re-entered the country, resuming business in 2000. [8] As at March 2016, Barclays Bank Plc. was seeking regulatory approval in Tanzania to merge this bank with National Bank of Commerce (Tanzania) in which Barclays maintains 55% shareholding. [9]