HSBC’S DECISION TO buy a controlling stake in South Africa’s Nedbank in mid-August, for $8 billion, was well timed. The World Cup had just finished, and it signalled, if nothing else, that business had returned to normal. The Johannesburg business community, glued to football on their television screens for the previous month, sat up and listened.
Their interest was grabbed by three facts. First, a new political prominence for banks in a country where politics is at the hub of so many economic decisions.
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