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30 May 2023
Standard Bank names new chief executive in DRC
Standard Bank has appointed Marie-Gabrielle Opese as its Chief Executive and Head of Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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30 May 2023
Standard Bank’s financing of renewable power generation projects out-strips fossil fuels power generation projects by 439%
Standard Bank is accelerating its financing of renewables to catalyse Africa’s energy transition, its financing of renewable power generation exceeding its non-renewable energy power generation by a ratio of 4.9 to 1.
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29 May 2023
Standard Bank crowned Africa’s Most Admired Financial Services Brand
Standard Bank has been named as most admired financial services brand, as announced by Brand Africa in the release of its latest research and rankings.
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8 May 2023
Visa and African Women Impact Fund Initiative (AWIF) announce recipients of funding to empower African women entrepreneurs.
Three women fund managers from Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa have been selected to receive Visa’s grant funding from the African Women Impact Fund Initiative (AWIF), a collaboration between Standard Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
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2 May 2023
Standard Bank Group scores two spots on the Africa.com Definitive List of Women CEOs
CEOs of Stanbic Bank Uganda Anne Juuko, and Standard Bank Namibia Mercia Geises, feature on the third reiteration of the Africa.com Definitive List of Women CEOs.
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18 April 2023
As South Africa’s third most valuable brand, Standard Bank leads in banking sector
Standard Bank is South Africa’s third most valuable brand, making it the country’s most valuable banking brand for the second consecutive year.
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Sustainability
15 June 2022
New Green Power Projects signed
Standard Bank supports three renewable energy projects in gaining approval from Government under the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Programme
Sustainability
15 June 2022
Standard Bank focuses on growing Africa’s education sector
Spokesperson: Ben Pretorius, Head: Education, Standard Bank
Development
3 June 2022
Standard Bank leverages its relationship with Amazon Web Services with the launch of the AWS Skills Guild
Together with Amazon Web Services (AWS), we launched the AWS Skills Guild in late 2021 which is part of our digital Cloud Academy, designed to help accelerate our cloud adoption journey and build cloud fluency amongst our employees.
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