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Standard Bank’s Brendan Jacobs charts a new agribusiness direction

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Standard Bank’s Brendan Jacobs has recently been appointed as the institution's Head, Agribusiness, Business and Commercial Banking South Africa. This is a role that promises to leverage his earlier experience as the Head of Client Coverage in the Free State and Northern Cape provinces in propelling the bank's agricultural sector to new heights. He sat down with the OFM Business Hour to discuss the development and get into the state of agribusiness banking in South Africa currently.
8 May 2024 8AM English South Africa Business · Daily News

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