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South Africa’s automotive industry has changed substantially over the past five years, with greater competition, changing vehicle-price dynamics and the emergence of new-energy vehicles altering both the economics of vehicle ownership and the structure of the market around it.

A few weeks ago, I spent some time in Accra alongside Nana Yaa Sakyibea Vanderpujie, Head of NBFI at Absa Ghana, meeting CEOs, CFOs and senior executives from across Ghana’s insurance sector.

Sustainability data is becoming a strategic capability that supports decision-making, transition planning and capital allocation across African markets.

Absa analysis shows changing price, growing competition and shifting consumer preferences are redrawing traditional vehicle segments

Africa’s relevance to the evolution of global finance is significant. The continent’s experience, particularly in cross-border payments, provides a glimpse into what tomorrow’s increasingly digital, data-driven global financial system could look like.

On 1 April 2021, India signed the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement, its first trade agreement with an African country. It was signed not with a mining economy or a manufacturing powerhouse, but with Mauritius, a jurisdiction whose value has less to do with the size of its own market than with what businesses can do from inside it.

As treasury enters the age of AI, finance leaders are rethinking everything from liquidity management and forecasting to payments, working capital and cross-border transactions.

Absa Corporate and Investment Banking is strengthening its international corridor network through its presence in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)

Join us for the launch of the 10th edition of the Absa Africa Financial Markets Index (AFMI), a milestone edition marking a decade of tracking the development of financial markets across Africa.

The appointment of Absa as Master Custodian to South Africa's Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) has understandably attracted attention within institutional investment circles.

Absa has been appointed Master Custodian to the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), Africa’s largest pension fund with more than A R3 trillion pension worth assets under management.

A view that surfaced repeatedly during the Africa Debate in London this month was that Africa may be undergoing a shift in its trade and investment paradigm.