Award Winners
Serving A Diverse Client Base: Q&A with Standard Bank CEO Sim Tshabalala
Sim Tshabalala, group CEO of Standard Bank, explains how Africa’s biggest bank is using its new digital capabilities to better understand its clients.
Africa
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Serving The Average African
Given the continent’s large youth population, the future of banking is digital. But who will win the battle for clicks over bricks? The incumbent banks—or fintechs and telcos?
Features
South Africa’s New Challengers
Out with the old, in with the new? Not quite, as the region’s incumbent banks are stepping up to the challenge presented by a spate of new, digital-only entrants that have no legacy system costs.
Features
The Next Frontier For African Banking
With customers hungry for new digital experiences and a large unbanked population, Africa is shaping up as a bellwether of how banks can truly embrace the digital age and serve customers better.
Features
Will Rising Debt Undermine Africa’s Progress?
The IMF is increasingly worried about Africa's debt levels.
Award Winners
World’s Best Bank Awards 2018: Africa
Slow GDP growth clouds outlook:Mobile technology is bringing banking to the continent’s unbanked, and is expected to help stimulate growth.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
44 African Nations Sign On To Single African Market
The creation of an African free-trade area is the first step towards a pan-African single market of1.2 billion people.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
First Digital-Only Launch For Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast has the fifth highest percentage of adults with mobile money accounts in the world.
Awards
Global Finance Names The World’s Best Banks In Africa 2018
Global Finance magazine has announced its 25th annual awards for the World’s Best Banks. The honorees for Africa are presented here. A full report on the selections will appear in the May issue of Global Finance, with winners chosen in ...
Award Winners
Africa: Embracing Harmony, Diversity
Providers have to deal with issues both big and small with firms both big and small.
Country Report
Angola: In Pursuit Of Stability
One of Africa’s largest economies is trying to stay afloat in the face of growing challenges.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Mali: A Cautionary Tale
While economic growth in Mali shows promise, escalating violence is scaring off foreign investors.