Key Takeaways Expansion across Africa, digital transformation, and client-focused strategies are set to boost revenue diversity, net margins, and recurring fee income. Investments in technology and risk management should enhance credit quality, positioning for resilient earnings and sustained growth amid favorable demographic trends.Read more
Solid track record with adequate balance sheet and pays a dividend.
Absa Group Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides retail and business banking, corporate and investment banking, insurance, financial, and wealth management products and services in South Africa and internationally. The company offers life and non-life insurance products; residential property-related finance solutions; mortgages; vehicle and asset finance products and services; cash, debit, credit and prepaid cards; personal loans; corporate, relationship, and transactional banking services; mobile payments; and savings and investment products and services. It also provides insurance and financial advisory, stockbroking and portfolio management, and trust administrative services, as well as operates a digital advice platform and a direct sales service center. In addition, the company offers trade and working capital, cash management, payment, and liquidity products and solutions; and investment banking, private equity and infrastructure investment, and commercial property financing services. Further, it provides broker-dealer trading in debt and equity securities; and solicitation, syndication, selling, and arranging of equity and debt products, as well as financial, leasing, and management services. The company was formerly known as Barclays Africa Group Limited and changed its name to Absa Group Limited in May 2018. Absa Group Limited was incorporated in 1986 and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
