South Africa

BEST RETAIL BANK

BEST RETAIL BANK
Absa

BEST INVESTMENT BANK
JPMorgan

SPECIAL AWARD FOR BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Deutsche Bank

Absa had a super year in 2004/05. If negotiating the most important merger in the history of African banking has been a distraction to management, performance over the period doesn’t show it. In the year to the end of March, Absa reported a 23.3% increase in headline profits from R4.45 billion to R5.48 billion ($828.4 million). Although diluted headline earnings rose by 18.8%, return on average assets improved from 1.55%

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