Absa Group Limited is a multinational banking and financial services conglomerate headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. It provides personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, and insurance products across ten Sub-Saharan African countries, South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia, with representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria and international offices in London and New York City, plus a technology support center in the Czech Republic. As of June 2024 the group held total assets of about 2.07 trillion South African rand and reported net income of 30.65 billion rand for that year. Kenny Fihla was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer effective June 17, 2025, with Rene van Wyk serving as Group Chairman. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Company TypeBanking and financial services conglomerate 1 Founded Year HeadquartersJohannesburg, South Africa 1 Company Type
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Absa Group Limited, commonly known and stylized simply as absa (formerly the Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ABSA) until 2005 and Barclays Africa Group Limited until 2018), is a multinational banking and financial services conglomerate based in Johannesburg, South Africa and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
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1986
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Banking, Financial services, Investment, Investment services, Insurance, Insurance services
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