{"id":242503,"date":"2026-08-28T20:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-fbc-defies-headwinds-with-strong-half-year-performance\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:32:41","slug":"zimbabwe-fbc-defies-headwinds-with-strong-half-year-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-fbc-defies-headwinds-with-strong-half-year-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: FBC Defies Headwinds With Strong Half-Year Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Zimbabwean financial services group FBC Holdings has reported a 23.8% increase in profit before tax to ZWG468.62m for the six months to June, despite a significant fall in profit after tax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The group&#8217;s unaudited condensed consolidated financial results show that total income increased by 17.2% to ZWG2.15bn, up from ZWG1.83bn during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">FBC Holdings chairman Herbert Nkala said the group&#8217;s performance was supported by growth across its main revenue streams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608280598.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean financial services group FBC Holdings has reported a 23.8% increase in profit before tax to ZWG468.62m for the six months to June, despite a significant fall in profit after tax. The group&#8217;s unaudited condensed consolidated financial results show that total income increased by 17.2% to ZWG2.15bn, up from ZWG1.83bn during the same period last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8319,27424,16486,24954,257,8553,254,6948,4686,421],"class_list":["post-242503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defies","tag-fbc","tag-halfyear","tag-headwinds","tag-news","tag-performance","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strong","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242503","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}