--- title: Absa appoints M-Pesa boss to lead personal and private... description: Absa Group appointed Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, former M-Pesa Africa MD, as CEO of its personal and private banking division starting April 1st. Lopokoiyit spent over... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/absa-appoints-m-pesa-boss-to-lead-personal-and-private-banking-mbjrltwi1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Absa appoints M-Pesa boss to lead personal and private banking | daily.dev og:description: Absa Group appointed Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, former M-Pesa Africa MD, as CEO of its personal and private banking division starting April 1st. Lopokoiyit spent over... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/absa-appoints-m-pesa-boss-to-lead-personal-and-private-banking-mbjrltwi1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MbJrLtWi1.png og:image:alt: Absa appoints M-Pesa boss to lead personal and private banking og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Absa appoints M-Pesa boss to lead personal and private banking **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Absa Group appointed Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, former M-Pesa Africa MD, as CEO of its personal and private banking division starting April 1st. Lopokoiyit spent over 12 years at Safaricom scaling M-Pesa to 56 million customers and 5 million businesses across Africa. The bank also announced several other executive changes including new appointments for chief governance officer, chief internal audit officer, and chief compliance officer as part of its pan-African strategy restructuring. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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