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South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

Banks

Locally controlled banks

Absa Group Limited Absa Group Limited (ABGL; formerly Barclays Africa Group Limited), and originally Amalgamated Banks of South Africa, is a South African-based financial services group, offering personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and invest ...

African Bank Limited African Bank Limited, is a retail bank in South Africa, that offers financial products and services. The Bank is licensed as a "locally controlled bank" by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). Headquartered in Midrand, South Africa, the bank ...

* Bidvest Bank Limited * Capitec Bank Limited *

Discovery Limited Discovery Limited is a South Africa-based financial services group that is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) with its headquarters in Sandton. Overview Discovery Limited engages in long and short-term insurance, asset managem ...

* First National Bank * FirstRand Bank - A subsidiary of First Rand Limited * Grindrod Bank Limited * Imperial Bank South Africa * Investec Bank Limited * Mercantile Bank Limited * Nedbank Limited * Sasfin Bank Limited * Standard Bank of South Africa * Ubank Limited * TymeBank

Co-operative banks

* Ditsobotla Primary Savings and Credit Co-operative Bank * OSK Koöperatiewe Bank Beperk

Foreign-controlled banks

Al Baraka Banking Group Al Baraka Group B.S.C. ("ABG" / the “Group”) is licensed as an Investment Business Firm – Category 1 (Islamic Principles) by the Central Bank of Bahrain and is listed on Bahrain Bourse. It is a leading international Islamic financial group ...

* Habib Overseas Bank Limited * Habib Bank AG Zurich * Access Bank South Africa

Branches of foreign banks

Bank of Baroda Bank of Baroda (BOB or BoB) is an Indian public sector bank headquartered in Vadodara, Gujarat. It is the second largest public sector bank in India after State Bank of India, with 132 million customers, a total business of US$218 billion, ...

Bank of China The Bank of China (BOC; ) is a Chinese majority state-owned commercial bank headquartered in Beijing and the fourth largest bank in the world. The Bank of China was founded in 1912 by the Republican government as China's central bank, repl ...

Bank of Taiwan The Bank of Taiwan (BOT, , see below) is a commercial bank headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It is owned by the government of Taiwan. History The Bank of Taiwan was established as Taiwan's central bank in 1899, during Japanese rule. ...

* BNP Paribas * Calyon Corporate and Investment Bank * China Construction Bank Corporation * Citibank N.A. * Deutsche Bank AG * JPMorgan Chase Bank *

Société Générale Société Générale S.A. (), colloquially known in English as SocGen (), is a French-based multinational financial services company founded in 1864, registered in downtown Paris and headquartered nearby in La Défense. Société Générale ...

* Standard Chartered Bank * State Bank of India *

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (), commonly known as HSBC (), was the parent entity of the multinational HSBC banking group until 1991, and is now its Hong Kong-based Asia-Pacific subsidiary. The largest bank in Hong K ...

(HSBC) * Colorado Bank

Foreign Bank Representatives

* AfrAsia Bank Limited *

Banco Africano de Investimentos Banco Angolano de Investimentos (formerly ''Banco Africano de Investimentos''), short ''BAI'', was founded in 1996 as the first private bank in Angola. The BAI is a full-service bank operating in Angola with a nationwide network of (mid-2012) 89 br ...

* Banco BIC * Banco BPI SA * Banco Espirito Santo e Comercial de Lisboa * Banco Santander Totta S.A. * Bank Leumi Le-Israel BM *

Bank of America The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The bank ...

* Bank of Cyprus Group *

Bank of India Bank of India (BOI) is an Indian public sector bank headquartered in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. Founded in 1906, it has been government-owned since nationalisation in 1969. BoI is a founder member of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Inter ...

* Barclays Bank Plc * Barclays Private Clients International Limited * Commerzbank AG Johannesburg * Credit Suisse AG * Ecobank * Export-Import Bank of India * Fairbairn Private Bank (Isle of Man) Limited *

Fairbairn Private Bank (Jersey) Limited Fairbairn is a surname of Scottish origin which means "a handsome child." Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Fairbairn (disambiguation), several people * Bill Fairbairn (born 1947), Canadian ice hockey player * Bruce Fairbairn (194 ...

* First Bank of Nigeria * First City Monument Bank Plc * Hellenic Bank Public Company Limited * HSBC Bank International Limited * ICICI Bank Limited * Industrial and Commercial Bank of China * KfW Ipex-Bank GmbH * Lloyds TSB Offshore Limited * Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited * Mukuru *

Millennium BCP Portuguese Commercial Bank ( pt, Banco Comercial Português, BCP) is a Portuguese bank that was founded in 1985 and is the largest private bank in the country. BCP is a member of the Euronext 100 stock index and its current chief executive officer ...

* National Bank of Egypt * NATIXIS * Royal Bank of Scotland International Limited *

* Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation *

The Bank of New York Mellon The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, commonly known as BNY Mellon, is an American investment banking services holding company headquartered in New York City. BNY Mellon was formed from the merger of The Bank of New York and the Mellon Finan ...

* The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Limited * The Mizuho Bank Limited * The Export-Import Bank of China * The Royal Bank of Scotland N.V. *

UBS AG UBS Group AG is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Co-headquartered in the cities of Zürich and Basel, it maintains a presence in all major financial centres as the largest Swis ...

* Unicredit Bank AG * Union Bank of Nigeria Plc *

Wells Fargo Bank Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with corporate headquarters in San Francisco, San Francisco, California; operational headquarters in Manhattan; and managerial offices throughout the United St ...

* Zenith Bank Plc

Mutual banks

* GBS Mutual Bank *

VBS Mutual Bank VBS Mutual Bank was a South African mutual bank. In 2018 it was declared insolvent and bankrupt and placed under curatorship, with South African citizens and taxpayers defrauded out of roughly R2 billion. It was formed as Venda Building Soc ...

* Finbond Mutual Bank * Bank Zero

State-owned banks

Development Bank of Southern Africa The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is a development finance institution wholly owned by the Government of South Africa. The bank intends to "accelerate sustainable socio-economic development in the Southern African Development Communi ...

Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa Land and Development Bank of South Africa (LADBSA) is a government-owned development bank in the Republic of South Africa. The bank was established as a development finance institution in 1912 by the Government of South Africa. The main objective ...

Postbank Postbank or Post bank may refer to: Postal savings systems (alphabetical by country) * Bulgarian Postbank, a Bulgarian retail bank * Chunghwa Post, a Taiwanese postal service that provides savings account services * Deutsche Postbank, a German ret ...

References

External links

Website of Reserve Bank of South Africa

{{Economy of South Africa *LIst

Banks A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Becaus ...