Standard Bank Group: First South African Bank to join the global Marco Polo Network
It’s one of the largest banks in Namibia and operates from more than 50 branches. So there was a familiar ring to the announcement on January 29th that ICBC would buy a 60% share of Standard Bank PLC, a London-based entity that trades currencies, commodities, stocks and bonds. Its parent in South Africa had found it hard to make the operation profitable.
- By 2010 that had changed, to the extent that Standard Bank was rated by Finweek’s review of SA bank charges as having amongst the highest bank charges in the country.
- Although BizFlex is currently only available to qualifying
