Blue Bankers are getting ready to show their support to the Writers of Hope initiative. The Writers of Hope initiative which was launched in February 2017, aids various schools by collecting and donating much needed stationary to them. It is the brainchild of Hugs 4 Christ and the Bankers Association of Namibia (BAN). “At Standard…
The immense interest in cryptocurrencies was evident on Thursday, 15 February 2018, when over 400 people attended an information session on Bitcoin and its supporting blockchain technology hosted by Bank Windhoek. Cryptocurrency expert Gavin Marshall from Blockchain Academy in South Africa, enthralled the audience with the origin and workings of Bitcoin and emphasised that its…
The fourth FNB Rock n Run will take place this Saturday, 24 February 2018 at the United Sports Grounds in Windhoek. FNB Namibia is the main sponsor of this great family fun event and this year N$10 of each ticket paid for by an FNB Debit or Credit card, will go towards the FNB Happiness…
The money, according to Nunuhes will be used to cover costs of her wardrobe and her participation in a boot camp ahead of the main event on 03 March 2018. Acknowledging the donation, Nunuhes said she will do her best to be a good Ambassador for the region and possibly bring the crown back home…
Bank Windhoek is proud to announce that commencing Monday, 19 February 2018, all its branches countrywide will start buying and selling Chinese yuan (CNY) notes. Yuan notes will be traded in addition to the current range of foreign currency notes which are exchanged at 0% commission. Bank Windhoek will accept denominations of 10, 20, 50…
Less than six months after the third launch of Standard Bank’s Buy-a-Brick initiative, in partnership with the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN), most of the commissioned houses are reaching completion. The Bank’s flagship initiative, which was initially launched in October 2015 with the aim of helping in alleviating the housing shortage in the country…
Government will fulfil financial and material promises made to the late former Prime Minister and opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Sunday. Addressing mourners at Tsvangirai’s home where he had gone to pay his condolences, President Mnangagwa said he would see to it that pledges he made to…
Following 11 years of wrongful imprisonment after suffering an obstetric emergency, the Salvadoran Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety commuted a Salvadoran woman’s sentence and released her today. In their decision, the court stated that there was insufficient scientific evidence to determine that she took any voluntary actions…
Standard Bank in partnership with the National Housing Enterprise (NHE), this week held a ground-breaking ceremony to begin construction on Gold Paralympian Ananias Shikongo’s house. Having won three medals in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro to become the third Namibian to do so, as such Standard Bank decided to reward Shikongo for…