Changes as Barclays rebrands to Absa

Barclays on Monday advised its customers to be alert against fraudsters as it completed its legal name change to Absa Bank Kenya.

The bank formally rebranded into the warm red Absa colours Monday, bidding farewell to the blue eagle emblem that has defined it for about 104 years.

The name change comes almost three years after Britain’s Barclays sold most of its controlling stake in Absa, South Africa’s third-largest lender, ending more than a century of the British bank’s involvement in Africa to focus on its home market and the United States.

Barclays Officially Starts Trading as Absa

Barclays Bank of Kenya has legally and officially begun trading as Absa Bank Kenya PLC. The change will also see the lender’s stock trade as Absa at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) after receiving all the relevant regulatory approvals.

This is happening as the lender nears the end of its transition and rebranding process. In a statement sent out to stockbrokers, Central Depository and Settlement Corporation (CDSC) instructed brokers to fast-track settlement of Thursday’s trade, often known as trade acceleration.

Experts monitor the state of Locust Invasion

“It was assumed that the locust would be here for a short while. However, the rate at which they are breeding is alarming. The change in climate patterns has also aggravated the situation. "

 

The chemical aerial spray that is being administered is not effective.  Prof. John Nderitu, UoN’s Proffesor of Agriculture recommended  an integrated Pest Management that includes biological, mechanical and chemical control. The University researchers are in the field collecting samples of the locust for laboratory analysis.

 

Celebrating 40 years of Collaboration and groundbreakng research

This UM/UoN Collaboration began in 1980, when Dr. Herbert Nzanze, head of the department of medical microbiology at the University of Nairobi, invited Dr. Allan Ronald, a University of Manitoba research pioneer in the field of infectious diseases (now a distinguished professor emeritus), to Nairobi to study sexually transmitted chancroid infections.

The University of Nairobi and University of Manitoba 40th anniversary of a research.

This UM/UoN Collaboration began in 1980, when Dr. Herbert Nzanze, head of the department of medical microbiology at the University of Nairobi, invited Dr. Allan Ronald, a University of Manitoba research pioneer in the field of infectious diseases (now a distinguished professor emeritus), to Nairobi to study sexually transmitted chancroid infections.