Financial institutions and markets safeguard savings, provide the financing required for a growing private sector, and make an important and growing direct 7  contribution to employment and economic growth”. It is in this  context that the presence of Stanbic Bank and its parent bank, Standard Bank Group, in banking, insurance and other forms of financial services in Botswana becomes critically important.
Distinguished Guests, banks are, by definition, risk traders and, invariably, should be compensated for taking such risks.