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FNB Namibia was founded as Deutsche Afrika Bank (DAB) in 1907, and in 1915 the National Bank of South Africa took over the assets of DAB which was in 1926 integrated with Barclays Bank. Barclays Bank changed the name of the South African operation to Barclays National Bank Limited in 1971, and later to First National Bank of Southern Africa ...
First National Bank Namibia Limited, part of FirstRand Group; Standard Bank Namibia Limited, part of Standard Bank Group; Nedbank Namibia Limited, part of Nedbank Group; Bank BIC Namibia Limited, part of Angola's Banco BIC Group; Letshego Bank Namibia Limited, part of Letshego Group; Branch of Banco Privado Atlântico (Lisbon)
Banking in Namibia started in June 1906, when German colonists formed the Deutsche Afrika Bank, which would become the First National Bank of Namibia.Following Namibian Independence in 1990, the Namibian banking sector came under the control of the new government which restructured the sector and created the Bank of Namibia as the central bank.
The FirstRand group's history traces back to the 1970s as an investment bank.The group as currently was established on 1 April 1998, through a merger of the financial services interests of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited (now Anglo American plc) and RMB Holdings (RMBH) in order to achieve the objective of a unified financial services grouping.
The FirstRand Group was established in 1998, by the merger of First National Bank of South Africa, Rand Merchant Bank and Momentum Insurance & Asset Management. FirstRand is listed as a "locally controlled bank" by the South African Reserve Bank , the national banking regulator. [ 8 ]
Namibia had already been allocated its own country code by the International Telecommunication Union, +264, in the late 1960s. [2] Windhoek, Namibia to Johannesburg, South Africa Before 1992: 011 xxx xxxx After 1992: 00 27 11 xxx xxxx [3] Johannesburg, South Africa to Windhoek, Namibia Before 1992: 061 xxx xxx After 1992: 09 264 61 xxx xxx [4]
The Bank of Namibia (BoN) is the central bank of Namibia, whose establishment is enshrined in Article 128 of the Namibian Constitution. It is located in the capital city of Windhoek . The Bank of Namibia was established in 1990 [ 2 ] by the Bank of Namibia Act, 1990 (Act 8 of 1990). [ 3 ]
Per 1,000 inhabitants, there were 50 TV sets and 137 radio sets in Namibia in 2008. [1]Radio stations: [2]. State-run radio service broadcasts in multiple languages; about a dozen private radio stations; transmissions of multiple international broadcasters are available (2007);