hoisting the standard

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For 150 years, Standard Bank has been a highly visible and reassuring presence in the commercial life of South Africa. In recent decades, the Standard has shed its former colonial and political constraints and ventured into emerging markets around the world, and especially in Africa. Within a relatively short time, it has become Africa's largest bank by earnings and assets. This book, commissioned to mark the Bank's 150th anniversary, focuses primarily on the events of the past five decades. In words and illustrations, it brings the Standard Bank's story up to date, describes its various operations around the world and reflects its substantial contribution to the economic and cultural life of its country of origin.