Row rect Shape Decorative svg added to bottom AWARDS Global Finance Innovators Award 2022 Absa | Corporate and Investment Banking > Insights and Events > Global Finance Innovators 2022 Award SHARE We are proud to have been recognised as the most innovative bank in Africa at the annual Global Finance Innovators Awards 2022 for the second consecutive year. Our Pan-African Cash Management Payments and Billers Product capability, Trade Management Online platform and Real-time Clearing API innovations enable us to achieve this accolade. Our in-depth understanding of the African continent, its regulatory framework, transactional landscape, payment and settlement infrastructure has enabled us to tailor cash management solutions to optimise clients' business operations. Our Transactional Banking Cash Management value propositions are supported by secure and bespoke online and integrated Host and Online Banking Channels. The Billers and Float Management solutions that we offer, provide simple, secure and cost-effective collections and float purchase capabilities, which give clients full control of their receivables and cashflow. Our API technology enables our clients to embed payments directly into their processes. This enables our clients to improve the beneficiary's experience. The payments are fully automated, with no manual intervention of any kind, which keeps costs down and reduces payment processing errors. The real-time credit to the beneficiary builds trust for our clients. Our award-winning Trade Management Online platform is a secure digital innovation that offers our Corporate and Business Banking clients 24/7 access to our comprehensive range of Trade Finance solutions. The contacts people for these products are: Thabo Makoko, Head of Pan Africa Cash Management, Transactional Banking Bohani Hlungwane, Head of Trade and Working Capital, Pan Africa https://www.cib.absa.africa/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/file_example_MP3_700KB.mp3 Related Articles RISK MANAGEMENT How Finance Can Help Build More Integrated African Supply Chains If one were to speak to African suppliers who trade across borders, many would say that doing business within the continent can feel riskier than exporting beyond it. Especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), information on counterparties is not always easy to obtain, regional currencies can be volatile and difficult to hedge, forward markets offer little depth, and access to affordable finance is often limited at precisely the moment it is needed most. Read more RISK MANAGEMENT What Bidvest’s Eurobond Tells Us About the Maturation of SA’s Debt Capital Market The international high-yield bond market functions as one of the largest and most technically evolved sources of corporate funding in the global financial system. Read more RISK MANAGEMENT Africa’s Capital Markets Are Moving Again. Here’s How. Kenyan beverages giant East African Breweries recently refinanced an existing KES 11 billion corporate bond through a medium-term note priced at 11.8%, marking the first issuance under its newly approved KES 20 billion programme. Read more