(Reporting by Promit Mukherjee; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
JOHANNESBURG, March 2 (Reuters) - South African lender
FirstRand Ltd , one of Africa's biggest banks, on
Thursday reported a 15% rise in interim profit as it continued
to benefit from a high interest rate environment and boost in
economic activity as COVID-19 waned.
Its headline earnings per share, a profit measure widely
used in South Africa, was at 322.7 South African cents for the
half year that ended Dec. 31, up from 281.4 cents posted in the
same period a year ago.
It declared a dividend of 189 cents per share.
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