FirstRand Ltd., Africa’s biggest bank by market value, said it’s tightening lending criteria to guard against rising bad debt levels resulting from South Africa’s economic slowdown.
“There’s a credit cycle emerging and we expect bad debts to start ticking up so we’re being proactive,”
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