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Absa Group Limited, commonly known simply as Absa and formerly the Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ABSA) until 2005 and Barclays Africa Group Limited until 2018, is a multinational banking and financial services conglomerate based in Johannesburg, South Africa and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
Absa Bank Limited is one of the largest commercial banks in South Africa. As of 31 December 2018, the bank's total assets were ZAR:1,289,000,000,000 (US$73,691,500,000). [2] Absa Bank Limited is a 100 percent subsidiary of Absa Group Limited, the Pan African financial services conglomerate headquartered in South Africa, with subsidiaries in 12 ...
Absa Bank Ghana is a large financial services company, serving corporate clients, high networth individuals, retail customers and small and medium enterprises.As of 31 December 2020, the bank had assets of GHS:12.546 billion (US$2.075 billion), with shareholders' equity of GHS:1.948 billion (US$322.2 million).
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]
Also that year Barclays sold its South African business operating under the Barclays National Bank name after protests against Barclays' involvement in South Africa and its apartheid government. [37] Barclays introduced the Connect card in June 1987, the first debit card in the United Kingdom. [38] [39]
The bank is a large retail bank that serves the banking needs of individuals, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), and large corporations. It is a member of the South African banking conglomerate, Absa Group Limited, whose stock is traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and whose total assets exceeded US$91 billion, as of October 2019. [4]
The bank operated in that capacity until 2000, when Barclays Bank Seychelles Limited was incorporated. In 2006, the bank served approximately 35,000 customers, through 5 branches, 7 ATMs and 130 members of staff. In 2013, the bank became a member of Barclays Africa Group, in which Barclays Plc had a 62.3 percent majority shareholding. [6]
First National Bank (South Africa) Indo-Zambia Bank Limited; Zambia Industrial Commercial Bank; International Commercial Bank; Investrust Bank; Stanbic Bank; Standard Chartered Bank (Zambia) United Bank for Africa [114] Zambia National Commercial Bank