Had Jacko Maree retired four years ago, his high standing in South Africa's financial annals would already have been assured. As the youthful chief executive officer of Standard Bank Group, he saved that venerable institution from a hostile takeover at-tempt in 1999 and led it back to its accustomed status as the biggest, best-run, most profitable bank in the country. That's when the media and everybody else started calling him by his first name. Then in 2002, as chairman of the Banking Council, the South African financial industry's main lobbying group, Maree confronted a bigger task than any corporate turnaround. He had to persuade his fellow bankers and investors to devise, within a year, an industrywide charter that would ensure bank ownership stakes, business loans and more access to financial services for the country's overwhelmingly black majority.
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机译：如果杰科·马里（Jacko Maree）于四年前退休，那么他在南非金融史上的高名声已经可以得到保证。作为标准银行集团（Standard Bank Group）的年轻首席执行官，他从1999年的恶意收购中挽救了这家历史悠久的机构，并将其带回了它成为该国最大，经营最好，最赚钱的银行的惯常地位。那时媒体和其他所有人开始用他的名字称呼他。然后在2002年，作为南非金融业主要游说集团银行委员会主席，马瑞面临的任务比任何公司的转型都要大。他必须说服他的银行家和投资者在一年之内制定一份全行业宪章，以确保该国绝大多数黑人拥有银行业股份，商业贷款以及更多获得金融服务的机会。
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