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Eight years on, ABSA finally gets Barclays’ African footprint – for R18bn
I’ll always have a soft spot for ABSA. In 1994, the bank took on an impoverished working journalist, gave him a properly paid job, lots of responsibility (on the Exco as a Group GM) and a chunk of share options. What happened in the next two and a half years transformed my career. My boss, … Read more