Standard Bank Blantyre

Standard Bank Blantyre is a branch of Standard Bank Malawi at the People's Trading Centre on Glyn Jones Road in central Blantyre, Malawi. It is run by Standard Bank PLC, the commercial bank formerly known as the Commercial Bank of Malawi. Standard Bank's online locator lists its outlets by name, branch code and post-office box rather than by street address, and does not name one at the People's Trading Centre. In and around Blantyre it lists Blantyre Branch (code 1002), Ginnery Corner Branch, Chichiri Service Centre and CBC, with a further branch in Limbe. The same page gives branch operating hours of 08:00 to 15:00 on weekdays and 09:00 to 11:30 on Saturdays; branches are closed on Sundays. Standard Bank PLC was registered as a commercial bank on 15 March 1969. Its founding shareholders were the Malawi Development Corporation, Press Holdings Limited and Banco Pinto Sotto Mayor, and its first branch opened in Limbe on 11 April 1970. Its shares have been listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange since 1998, and South Africa's Standard Bank Group took a controlling stake in 2001. The bank is licensed by the Reserve Bank of Malawi and has its head office on Africa Unity Avenue in Lilongwe. Glyn Jones Road is one of the streets of Blantyre's original commercial centre. The city grew from a Church of Scotland mission founded in 1876, takes its name from David Livingstone's birthplace in Scotland, and is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce and its second-largest city, with about 800,000 residents at the 2018 census. The bank's central lines are 247 for personal banking, 242 for business banking and 248 for corporate and investment banking, or +265 885 920 001 from abroad; its locator gives Blantyre Branch's number as +265 1 820 222. As street addresses are not published, confirming by phone which branch serves this address before travelling is advisable.

People's Trading Centre, Glyn Jones Road, Blantyre, Malawi
Blantyre

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