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Absa to pay higher dividend despite drop in earnings

South African bank Absa said on Monday its full-year headline earnings dipped by one per cent in 2018, when taking into account 3.2 billion rand (Sh22.2 billion or $221.77 million) in costs related to its separation from British lender Barclays.

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