Despite the prohibitively high price tag proposed last year, an acquisition of South African lender Nedbank by the UK’s Standard Chartered could still be possible. Buying a bank in Nigeria, on the other hand, appears to be much less likely for Standard Chartered, at least in the short to medium term.
As Standard Chartered is one of the smaller banks in Nigeria, some have speculated that it might be among the bidders for the nine troubled banks Nigeria’s central bank has tried to sell to foreign institutions.
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