Absa Capital is a leading South African investment bank, a division of Absa Bank Ltd and is affiliated to Barclays Capital. It provides financing, risk management and advisory solutions in a wide range of currencies and structures. Absa Capital believes in building close relationships with clients - issuers and investors - who require specialised expertise and advice.

Sector specialist investment bankers and dedicated sales teams identify, understand and manage client financing and risk management needs, while product specialists ensure clients receive the optimum solution that a global investment bank, with deep South African roots, can offer.

Absa Capital’s approach is supported by products and services (which match the increasingly sophisticated demands of the market), access to world-class technology and product expertise as well as an enviable balance sheet through Absa Bank Ltd and Barclays PLC.

With its distinctive client centric business model, Absa Capital provides large corporates, governments, hedge funds, asset managers and institutional clients with solutions to their financing and risk management needs.

Inspired by a relentless pursuit of excellence and a constant desire to improve everything it does, Absa Capital offers unparalleled expertise in the following areas:

          Primary Markets

          Sales and Trading

          Research

          Equity Investments and Investor Series

          Investment Banking

Through the Absa Bank Ltd and Barclays PLC network, Absa Capital are also able to offer our African client base access to world class investment banking expertise

Rand Merchant Bank is the investment banking arm of FirstRand, one of South

Africa’s largest, listed financial services groups, and is active in fixed income,

currency and commodities trading, debt capital markets, private equity, structured,

corporate and resources finance.

With a presence in the UK, the US, Australia and across Africa, RMB has

considerable underwriting capacity due to its ability to trade off the $100bn FirstRand

Group balance sheet.

Seeing unprecedented growth since its formation, RMB has developed a reputation

for combining innovation and entrepreneurship and has pioneered the introduction of

many new financial instruments to the local and African markets, in support of its

philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas.

Nedbank Capital, the investment banking arm of the Nedbank Group, manages the structuring, lending, underwriting and trading businesses. This highly rated business provides seamless specialist advice, debt and equity raisings and execution, as well as trading capabilities in all the major South African business sectors. Principal clients include the top 200 domestic corporates, parastatals, leading financial institutions, non-South African multinational corporates, clients undertaking major infrastructure and mining projects in Africa as well as emerging BEE consortiums. In addition, the business has developed specialised expertise in the following sectors: Energy, Resources, Infrastructure, BEE and Industrials with significant participation across the African continent.

Standard Bank Group is a global bank with African roots. It is South Africa's largest bank, distinguished by its extensive operations in 17 African countries. Outside the African continent, Standard Bank Group operations span to 21 countries, with an emerging market focus. Our customers benefit from our knowledge and expertise in emerging markets, coupled with our global outlook.

The Group has played a central role in the development of the Southern African economy for more than 140 years. It has done this by constantly aligning its presence in the market place with the evolving needs of the region's economies, and delivering relevant banking and financial services.

Our three main pillars of business are Personal and Business Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Investment Management and Life Insurance. Across these areas, our staff aspires to provide our customers with bespoke banking solutions.