South African Banking Industry Updates
South African Banks Benchmarking
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Report FY22 - August 2022
This document summarises the half year performance of the December year end reporters, ahead of our full report on the June 2022 results later in September. All three reporting banks achieved significant growth in earnings during H1’22, supported by rising interest rates, increased economic activity and stable expected credit loss charges.
EY South African Banks Benchmarking Database
In an environment where uncertainty has become the new normal, South African banks are delivering strong results and a continued ambition to be at the forefront of strategic cost transformation and digital innovation. The SA Banks Benchmarking Database allows users to analyse and benchmark the performance of 7 leading South African banks across various financial KPIs, including costs, revenue, asset quality and capital.
South Africa Peer Bank Analysis FY21 – May 2022
Our FY22 summarised the South African Bank’s financial performance in 2021 and the improvements and challenges faced by the Banks. The report focuses on the ECL impacts and how the Bank’s compare in terms of management overlays. Whilst transactional activity have returned to the “new normal” there are still a number of emerging headwinds in the future. The EY report provided perspective of the outlook and the impact of the uncertainty on credit risk. The report also focuses on the latest guidance and trends with the increased focus on sustainable finance.
FY 21 Report
This year's report speaks to some of the challenges currently faced by South African banks since Covid-19 pandemic emerged. The continued uncertainty associated with the variants and how government’s respond has severe consequences for banks' forecasting estimates, both in short-term uncertainty and volatility (which is forecast to persist in the medium term), and in the long-term. Hence, the need for institutions to invest in high-frequency big data platforms which enables the acceleration of their technology spend as part of their next and beyond post COVID-19 initiatives. EY looks at how banks can best deal with these challenges.
FY 20 Report
We have compared the results for 12 months ended (ME) Dec-20 (Jan’20 - Dec’20), which is FY20 for four South African bank namely FirstRand Limited (FirstRand), Absa Group Limited (Absa), Nedbank Group Limited (Nedbank) and Standard Bank Group Limited (Standard Bank) and includes 2H20 and 1H21 for FirstRand. Transformation is key to the banking environment growing and banks have an opportunity to design new products and streams of revenue to align to customer needs. However, the increasing regulatory requirements and impact on the balance sheet should be borne in mind as part of these transformations.
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IBOR Transition Readiness Survey
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