Financial Sector Charter


The South African Financial Sector Charter is a transformation charter in terms of the Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Act.
The Charter came into effect in January 2004 as a result of the Financial Sector Summit hosted by the National Economic Development and Labour Council, the multilateral social dialogue forum on social, economic and labour policy. The Nedlac partners – government, business, labour and community constituencies – negotiated the Financial Sector Summit Agreements on transforming the financial sector and signed the Summit declaration on 20 August 2002.

Charter Objectives

The objectives of the Charter are to:
In pursuit of these objectives, the Charter commits financial institutions in the sector to transforming in the areas of: