Standard Bank, which also trades as Stanbic Bank, forms part of one of Africa’s leading financial services groups, the Standard Bank Group Limited, a South African company with more than 50,000 employees worldwide. A longtime supporter of education, health and development on the continent, the bank added malaria to its portfolio of social investments in 2010, joining corporate partners and United Against Malaria to end a disease that costs Africa an estimated USD 12 billion in lost gross domestic product every year.