When Maria Ramos' job as head of Absa was up for grabs, current CEO Daniel Mminele couldn't resist taking up the challenge.
Then a deputy governor of the South African Reserve Bank, who had been out of the commercial banking loop for two decades, Mminele thought making a comeback by leading an organisation that was busy reinventing itself was the kind of challenge he was up to.
Ambitions to be a Pan-African bank