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Nedbank Group has received a regulatory waiver in Kenya that allows it to proceed with its plan to acquire about 66% of NCBA Group without launching a full takeover.<\/p>\n
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority granted the exemption on Feb. 19, 2026. The waiver relieves Nedbank from rules that would have required it to make a mandatory offer for 100% of NCBA once certain ownership thresholds were crossed.<\/p>\n
The South African lender first announced the proposed transaction on Jan. 21. Under the current…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nedbank Group has received a regulatory waiver in Kenya that allows it to proceed with its plan to acquire about 66% of NCBA Group without launching a full takeover. Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority granted the exemption on Feb. 19, 2026. The waiver relieves Nedbank from rules that would have required it to make a mandatory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":225912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4688,430,6097,41870,11091,257,6720,6306,10429,254,9744,7792],"class_list":["post-225911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-ncba","tag-nedbank","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-pursue","tag-secures","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stake","tag-waiver"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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