There was a time that, when one said the name “Standard Bank” in Asia, people thought of another bank with a similar name that is also strong in that part of the world.

That’s quickly changing. Now, at the mention of “Standard Bank”, people say: “Oh Standard Bank, the African Bank”.

Standard Bank has a clear plan in mind for doing business in China. We want to move from being a trading bank, which is really what we have done before, to a full-service Asian investment bank. Read more »

Prospects of renewed growth in Africa during the post-crisis environment are excellent, as the continent had the spare capacity to expand.

The panel consisted of: Lamido Sanusi, governor of the Nigerian central bank; Fifi Kwetey, deputy-minister of finance and economic planning in Ghana; Professor Njuguna Ndung’u, governor of the Kenyan central bank; Koosam Kalyan, non-executive board member of Standard Bank; and Standard Bank chief economist Goolam Ballim. Read more »