Standard Chartered (“the Bank”) and Alibaba Group Holding Limited (“Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group”) have entered into a strategic partnership, utilising Alibaba Cloud’s AI technologies to accelerate the ...

Standard Chartered has appointed Jason Forrester as its next Group Chief Risk Officer (CRO), pending regulatory approval.

As part of the strategy to boost growth and woo investors, Fihla plans to entice customers. For instance, Absa will revamp and remove cash from some branches so that they don’t look like “prisons”, ...

Standard Chartered Bank seeks to establish a global reach The bank runs its crypto arm, Zodia Markets, which recently announced plans to acquire Elwood Capital Management Ltd (ECML), the digital ...

The Absa Group also issued a statement that announced Fihla’s appointment as group CEO, effective 17 June 2025 and subject to regulatory approval. The group added that Fihla will succeed interim ...

Nonkululeko Nyembezi is the Chairperson of Standard Bank Group—which operates in more than 20 countries and is the largest lender in Africa by assets—and Standard Bank South Africa. She also serves as ...

Standard Bank, South Africa’s biggest bank, last month took what joint CEO Sim Tshabalala calls its “most significant strategic action” since announcements four years ago that it would refocus on ...