{"id":837122,"date":"2025-09-08T17:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=837122"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:37:05","slug":"standard-bank-appoints-new-south-africa-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/837122\/standard-bank-appoints-new-south-africa-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Bank appoints new South Africa CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Standard Bank Group has announced David Hodnett as the new Chief Executive Officer of Standard Bank South Africa Limited (SBSA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hodnett, who currently serves as the Group\u2019s Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and leads its Corporate Affairs portfolio, will take up the position as soon as it receives regulatory approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He brings over 30 years of leadership experience and deep institutional knowledge to his new role as CEO of SBSA, the group said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thabani Ndwandwe will succeed David Hodnett as the Group Chief Risk Officer and will become a member of the Group Leadership Council. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndwandwe will retain his SBSA CRO responsibilities, the bank said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having joined the Group in 2004, Ndwandwe brings two decades of experience and has demonstrated deep expertise in managing risk portfolios across multiple jurisdictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lungisa Fuzile\u2019s role as interim CEO for Africa Regions and Offshore now becomes a permanent appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These key appointments demonstrate the group\u2019s significant depth of leadership succession pipeline,&#8221; said Standard Bank group CEO, Sim Tshabalala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;David has extensive experience in South Africa\u2019s financial services sector and has demonstrated exceptional leadership capabilities in our group.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Since joining Standard Bank two decades ago, Thabani has shown exemplary leadership across the risk portfolio while Lungisa has a proven record of accomplishment,\u201d Tshabalala added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standard Bank confirms that these appointments remain in line with the group\u2019s ongoing commitment to continue to deliver against its strategy, while developing strong internal leadership capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Standard Bank Group has announced David Hodnett as the new Chief Executive Officer of Standard Bank South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":837123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[499],"class_list":["post-837122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-standard-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837122","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=837122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837124,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837122\/revisions\/837124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}