Africa’s best bank for markets 2017: Standard Chartered

Awards for Excellence 2017

Last year’s winner of best for markets in Africa – Standard Bank – was unable to hold off competition from Standard Chartered this year. With its 56 people-strong Africa sales team and trading team of 28 – making it the largest on the ground – Standard Chartered was difficult to beat.

The bank is a primary dealer in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa. Standard Chartered executed $875 million of local currency swaps and cross-currency swaps in the last year.