Tom Minney

Range of mountains in beautiful sunlight for launch of Absa African Financial Markets Index (AFMI) report.
Climate

Clear progress for Africa’s financial markets

Jeff Gable, Chief Economist, and Anthony Kirui, Head of Global Markets Ex.SA, at Absa CIB explain why recent strong progress in Africa’s financial market development ...

Press conference in a busy room, announces the launch of the Ethiopian Securities Exchange on the new securities trading floor.
Uncategorized

Newly licensed Ethiopian Securities Exchange unveils trading floor

The Ethiopian Securities Exchange has today (Friday 13 December) announced that it will officially launch in mid-January 2025. CEO Tilahun Esmael Kassahun and top colleagues ...

Capital raise for the Ethiopian Securities Exchange, ATS, ETP
Ethiopia

Money market trading underway on Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX)

As excitement builds ahead of the launch of the Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX), banks are already actively trading on its online Interbank Money Market trading ...

Leaders of business line up for listing ceremony of housing group Haldane McCall on the Nigerian Exchange Limited.
Capital raising

Nigeria’s new listing tops trading volumes as shares soar

Housing and hospitality group Haldane McCall plc sees its listing on the Main Board of the Nigerian Exchange Limited as the route to raise future ...

Composite image of woman customer ns staff member from website advertising Boxer Grocery chain share offer, IPO and listing.
Capital raising

Grocer’s $440m is Africa’s biggest IPO of 2024

UPDATE 25 November: The Boxer initial public offer (IPO) raised ZAR 8.5 billion ($471 million) for South Africa’s Pick n Pay. It sold a 34.4% ...

View of Nairobi cityscape. Nairobi Securities Exchange to offer options derivatives trading.
Exchange news

Options derivatives trading coming to Nairobi Securities Exchange

A big step forward for Kenya’s derivatives market NEXT, a part of the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), as it moves to introduce options derivatives trading. ...

Group of people in Ghanaian clothes ring bell at stock exchange. Ghana Stock Exchange launches OTC market for trading equities, rural and community banks may raise capital
Capital raising

Ghana’s OTC market aims to help smaller companies raise “patient capital”

The Ghana Stock Exchange has launched an official regulated over-the-counter (OTC) market where shareholders can trade in equities and other securities that are not listed ...

Headquarters of Ethio Telecom as it prepares to launch first IPO of the Ethiopian Securities Exchange
Capital raising

Ethio Telecom IPO – Updated with details

UPDATED WITH DETAILS OF SHARE OFFER The state-owned giant Ethio Telecom launched its offer of 10% of its shares to the Ethiopian public from 17 ...

Cartoon image to advertise Altvest financial company is listing ordinary shares and 3 other classes on the JSE AltX through an IPO
Capital raising

IPO Watch – Altvest listing on JSE’s AltX to close 1 Oct

Disclaimer: This website and this article are for news and information purposes only. Nothing included here is an investment advertisement or financial promotion nor does ...

Photos of people enjoying the AFSIC Investing in Africa 2022 conference.
Capital raising

Africa’s biggest investment meet

There are only three weeks until the biggest African conference starts in London. Book before 30 September to save up to £840 ($1,119) per person. ...

Flyer for AFSIC, biggest African investment conference and event.
Capital raising

Interview with AFSIC CEO Rupert McCammon

With under three weeks to go to the 11th AFSIC – investing in Africa conference on 7-9 October, in London, here is an interview with ...

Tilahun Kassahun of Ethiopian Securities Exchange signs trading system agreement with Muhammad Haris Naseer if InfoTech. Technology, capital markets.
Ethiopia

InfoTech trading system for ESX Ethiopian stock exchange

The Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) has signed two pivotal technology agreements with Infotech Private Limited. The agreements cover the design, supply, and installation of an ...

Bonds

Burkina Faso lists $217m of sovereign bonds

The Government of Burkina Faso successfully listed two sovereign bonds on the regional stock exchange Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) yesterday (10 September), raising ...

View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the first corporate bond has been used for capital raising for microfinance.
Bonds

Corporate bond boosts Sierra Leone capital market

Sierra Leone’s nascent capital market saw the successful issue of a first corporate bond. Local microfinance institution LAPO (Lift Above Poverty Organisation) SL raised SLE ...

Business and capital markets leaders in Rwanda watch Mahwi Grain Millers chairperson ring the bell for listing the corporate bond for trading on the Rwanda Stock Exchange after raising capital.
Bonds

Mahwi Grain Millers lists corporate bond in Rwanda today

Industrial company Mahwi Grain Millers Plc has today (2 September 2024) listed its first corporate bond on the Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE). The first RWF ...

Live share trading order routing in Africa with live trading screen
Exchange news

Uganda joins African exchanges link

The Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) has become the tenth African securities exchange to join the African Exchanges Linkage Project (AELP). The linkage platform enables stockbrokers ...

blurry figures in front of blockchain graphic. ASX Australian Stock Exchange blockchain capital markets infrastructure fail
Exchange news

Australia’s failed blockchain project for capital markets infrastructure

A world-leading bid effort to use blockchain technology to upgrade key capital markets infrastructure ended when ASX Ltd (the Australian Stock Exchange) paused the project ...

Nairobi City scenery, home of some of Africa's private equity fund exits
Private equity

Funds Friday: How do African private equity funds exit?

For private equity and venture capital investors into African businesses, getting out of the investment with a good return is one of the key challenges. ...

Mosi Oa Tunya waterfall, liquidity in Africa's bond capital markets
Bonds

New bond index may cut Africa debt costs

A ground-breaking effort to improve cost of credit for African borrowers, including governments, got a boost with the recent launch of the iBoxx LSF USD ...

Rainbow Chicken celebrates listing shares for trading on JSE stock exchange.
Capital raising

Rainbow Chicken flies on JSE

Rainbow Chicken, one of South Africa’s biggest poultry producers, has listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as part of the unbundling of a conglomerate, The ...