First National Bank (FNB; Afrikaans: Eerste Nasionale Bank (ENB)) is one of South Africa's "big five" banks. It is a division of FirstRand, a large financial services conglomerate, which trades on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE), under the symbol: FSR. FNB is also listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange under the symbol FNBB and is a constituent of the BSE Domestic Company Index. FNB is one of the three major divisions of the FirstRand Group, and the others being Rand Merchant Bank and Wesbank.

Absa Group Limited (ABGL; formerly Barclays Africa Group Limited), and originally Amalgamated Banks of South Africa, is a South African-based financial services group, offering personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, as well as bank assurance. ABGL is the majority shareholder of 11 banks located in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (two entities), Uganda and Zambia. The group maintains representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria.

Bank of Africa Group (BOA), also known as Bank of Africa, is a multinational pan-African banking conglomerate, with banking operations in eighteen African countries, and a representative office in Paris, France. It is a subsidiary of the Moroccan group BMCE (Moroccan Bank of Foreign Commerce) and its head office is in Dakar, capital of Senegal.The maiden bank of the BOA Group, BOA Mali, was established in late 1982, in Bamako, Mali, by local businesspeople.

The Central Bank of West African States (French: Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, BCEAO) is a central bank serving the eight west African countries which share the common West African CFA franc currency and comprise the West African Economic and Monetary Union.Its predecessor, the Institut d’Emission de l’Afrique Occidentale Française et du Togo ("note-issuing institute of French West Africa and Togo"), was created in 1955 and became BCEAO in 1959.