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The Absa Macro and Risk Management Conference underscores Absa’s commitment to helping clients make sense of global volatility and translate it into actionable African strategy. By convening world-class thinkers, the conference challenges institutional investors and corporate leaders to look beyond the noise of tariffs, wars, and economic turbulence — and focus on long-term opportunities for growth, resilience, and regional collaboration.

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.