Barclays profits jump 49% in 2016

Renniette Van Der Merwe
Renniette Van Der Merwe

Barclays Bank of Botswana made a pretax profit of P494.5 million in the year ended December 31, 2016 representing an increase of 49% from the previous year.

According to the bank’s recently announced financial results, the profit rise was driven by sustained revenue growth in the retail and business banking as well as the corporate and investment banking. These two segments grew by 11% and 30% respectively.

“The bank has continued to make progress in growing the key business segments in the various sectors of the economy,” managing director (MD), Reinette van der Merwe said.

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BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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