{"id":170361,"date":"2017-04-13T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T09:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=170361"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T09:07:31","slug":"fnb-absa-and-sasfin-named-the-best-banks-in-southern-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/170361\/fnb-absa-and-sasfin-named-the-best-banks-in-southern-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB, Absa and Sasfin named the best banks in Southern Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FNB, Sasfin and Barclays Africa (Absa) have been named the\u00a0best banks in Southern Africa in\u00a0the recent annual Banker Africa &#8211; Southern Africa Awards 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to Banker Africa, the awards recognise financial institutions that offer best-in-class services that meet the needs and exceed the expectations of customers.<\/p>\n<p>The institution said the awards promote excellence and competition among entities that set new standards in quality of service, best practice and financial performance.<\/p>\n<p>The winners were selected by registered readers of CPI Financial products and services, mainly peers in the financial services industry.<\/p>\n<p>Shortlists for the awards were compiled by a\u00a0group of experts from CPI\u00a0Financial, the publisher of Banker Africa.<\/p>\n<p>FNB was named the best retail bank in the region, while other South African banks also scored awards.<\/p>\n<p>Sasfin Bank was named the best corporate bank, and Barclays Africa (trading as Absa in South Africa) scooped the awards for best commercial and investment bank in the region.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2017 awards,\u00a0nearly 4,000 votes were cast &#8211; these are the results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Retail Bank Southern Africa &#8211; <strong>First National Bank<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Corporate Bank Southern Africa &#8211; <strong>Sasfin Bank<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Commercial Bank Southern Africa &#8211; <strong>Barclays Africa<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Investment Bank &#8211; <strong>Barclays Africa (CIB)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Emerging Bank Southern Africa &#8211; <strong>BancABC (Atlas Mara)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best Mobile Security Technology &#8211; <strong>Entersekt<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to South African banks downgraded to junk\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/168753\/south-african-banks-downgraded-to-junk\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">South African banks downgraded to junk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNB, Sasfin and Barclays Africa (Absa) have been named the best banks in Southern Africa in the recent annual Banker Africa &#8211; Southern Africa Awards 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":85335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-170361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170369,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170361\/revisions\/170369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}