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BANKING

when informal SMEs are included.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/
topic/smefinance

Acting responsibly

We have been heartened as a banking
institution by the responsible
behaviour of many of our customers
who have continued to service their
debt as their situation allows, which Noble Magazine
is a very positive story in these
uncertain times. Vimal Kumar
Absa Group Limited
Our customers see us as a bank that Chief Executive: Retail & Salutes
is responsible and willing to assist; Business Banking, Digital and
that offers help when they are truly Customer Experience (Absa
in need. Yet they have adjusted Regional Operations)
their thinking and behaviour to Frontline
the existing environment and are Vimal is the Chief Executive of Retail
responsibly only calling on us when and Business Banking; Digital and
they really need us. Customer Experience (RBB, Digital
&CX) for Absa Regional Operations, at Workers for
Absa has a balance sheet in excess Absa Group Limited overseeing RBB
of almost R1 trillion and is well- franchises across nine markets: Zambia,
positioned to withstand financial Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda,
storms, and as a significant bank Mozambique, Tanzania, Mauritius and resilience in
on the continent, we play a big part the Seychelles.
in ensuring stability to financial
systems, as well as being able to offer Vimal joined the Group as Head
of Lending in 2011 based in Dubai,
clients and customers a reassuring providing strategic leadership the fight
sense of stability and confidence. achieving profitable growth in the
Consumer Lending and Credit Card
But more than what we represent as businesses. Additionally, he was
a continental banking institution, instrumental in the expansion into new against
Absa is also Africa, and the essence segments and markets for the business
of caring for others underpins
everything we do. Our commitment Vimal has over 26 years of experience
to helping save lives and contributing in Business Banking, Credit Cards, Covid-19
meaningfully to the fight against Consumer Loans, Retail Liabilities
this coronavirus pandemic has seen and Wealth Management and has
us make substantial donations to worked with leading banks including
national governments and various Standard Chartered, ANZ Bank,
Covid-19 relief efforts. ABN AMRO in Asia, Middle East and
Africa.
We believe in getting things done,
and in helping people find a way He has served as an Advisor on
to get things done. And in these the CEMEA board for VISA, the
extraordinary times, we also International Advisory Board of
understand what it means to be UnionPay International and member
African: that our common humanity of the APMEA Chip Sub Committee of
and our compassion towards one MasterCard International. He speaks
another in the spirit of ubuntu, is on Consumer Banking and Payment
what will ultimately carry us through for global organisations such as the
and be the panacea in this fight Lafferty Group, Fleming Group and
against this pandemic. European Financial Management &
Marketing (EFMA).

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