Africa’s best bank 2023: Standard Bank

In many African countries, Standard Bank is not as large as it would like to be. But it has a physical presence in 20 African countries and is already by far the biggest pan-African group in terms of its scale in the main sub-Saharan markets, the size of its balance sheet and its absolute profit.

In many African countries, Standard Bank is not as large as it would like to be. But it has a physical presence in 20 African countries and is already by far the biggest pan-African group in terms of its scale in the main sub-Saharan markets, the size of its balance sheet and its absolute profit.

The result was evident in 2022, with record group headline earnings of R34.2 billion ($1.85 billion), up 37% on 2021, and a similar year-on-year increase reported for the first quarter of 2023.

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