Change is inevitable, and after 104 years, the blue had to go. Last week, Barclays Bank ended its Kenyan expedition, transitioning to Absa, which explains why the lender has been painting the town red ...

Barclays, a British multinational universal bank, has planned to expand its banking services in Africa. In March 2016, Barclays announced it was going to separate from the South-Africa-based financial ...

Absa Bank's Jeremy Awori (left) and CEO Nairobi Securities Exchange Geoffrey Odundo during the execution of the first trade live in the market at Nairobi Securities Exchange in Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's biggest retail bank Absa , majority-owned by Barclays Plc , has reached an all-share deal to acquire the British bank's operations in Africa to allow it to ...

LONDON/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - British bank Barclays is in talks about combining its African operations with those of majority-owned subsidiary Absa Group in a move aimed at accelerating expansion on ...

• Absa has been undergoing a transition after parting ways with Barclays plc, which reduced its shareholding in the African financial services group to a minority stake in 2017 ...

A UK-based magazine, The Banker, has named Absa Bank Kenya as Kenya’s Bank of the Year 2025. According to the publisher, the key highlight for Absa over the review period was the repositioning of the ...

Mary Okello is a pioneering Kenyan entrepreneur and leader, known for her work in empowering women and shaping financial opportunities across Kenya and Africa. In 1977, Mary made history as the first ...

Ghana’s major banks, including Absa, Zenith and OmniBSIC, bounced back in the third quarter of 2023 after suffering abysmal ramifications of the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) in 2022.