Absa Group and Absa Bank: Availability of the Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2023 ABSA GROUP LIMITED (Incorporated with limited liability in South Africa under registration number 1986/003934/06) Bond Issuer Code: ABGI ("Absa Group") ABSA BANK LIMITED (Incorporated with limited liability in South Africa under registration number 1986/004794/06) Hybrid Issuer Code: ABSH Bond Issuer Code: BIABS Structured Product Issuer Code: ABSP ETN Issuer Code: ABSN1 ("Absa Bank") ABSA GROUP LIMITED AND ABSA BANK LIMITED: AVAILABILITY OF THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023 In terms of section 6.17 of the Debt Listings Requirements of the JSE Limited, Investors are advised that the Absa Group and Absa Bank annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023 are available for viewing and downloading at https://www.absa.africa/absaafrica/investor-relations/financial-results and on the JSE cloudlink https://senspdf.jse.co.za/documents/2024/jse/issb/abgi/AFS-FYE23.pdf Investors are further advised that the financial statements for Absa Group and Absa Bank include certain restatements of their previously published audited group and company annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2022. For comprehensive details regarding the restatements, kindly refer to the notes 1.21 for Absa Group and the notes 1.213 for Absa Bank, respectively, as set out in the annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023. Johannesburg 02 April 2024 Debt Sponsor Absa Corporate and Investment Bank, a division of Absa Bank Limited Date: 02-04-2024 07:05:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.