{"id":589390,"date":"2026-08-19T10:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589390\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:50:11","slug":"absa-raises-kenya-unit-stake-to-72-through-tender-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589390\/","title":{"rendered":"Absa raises Kenya unit stake to 72% through tender offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https___archive-images.prod_.global.a201836.reutersmedia.net_2020_04_09_LYNXNPEG380JO-OZABS-820x537..jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-651492\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/>Traders monitor their screens at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) as Absa Bank Kenya PLC (ABK) starts trading, formerly as Barclays in Nairobi, Kenya February 19, 2020. REUTERS\/Njeri Mwangi<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JOHANNESBURG, Aug 19 (Reuters)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0South Africa\u2019s Absa Group\u00a0said on Wednesday it had acquired about 3.5% of its Kenya unit through a tender offer, lifting its stake to roughly 72%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders monitor their screens at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) as Absa Bank Kenya PLC (ABK) starts trading,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,35684,85,46],"class_list":["post-589390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-east-africa","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}