Duet and Vasari invest private equity in Ethiopia’s Dashen Brewery
London-based alternative asset manager Duet Group and Vasari, a company with a record of growing businesses, announced recently in a press release that they had ...
London-based alternative asset manager Duet Group and Vasari, a company with a record of growing businesses, announced recently in a press release that they had ...
Mega-mergers and competition continues among the world’s biggest exchanges, despite the move by European regulators to ban Deutsche Börse (DB) and NYSE Euronext (NYX) from ...
Tanzanians are to be able to invest in the gems that bear their country’s name, tanzanite. Richland Resources Ltd, listed on the London Stock Exchange’s ...
South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan said the continent needs to take advantage of having a market of 1bn people and some of the ...
PLUS Markets, a British-regulated investment exchange for trading the shares of small companies, has put itself up for sale on 3 Feb.
The JSE Ltd, South Africa’s securities exchange, is hoping to attract more listings from the rest of Africa in 2012 and to expand its range ...
The number of investors from other East African countries opening trading accounts at Kenya’s Nairobi Stock Exchange is still very small, but has grown more ...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, on 20 Dec agreed to invest CAD1,250,000 in nickel and copper exploration through ...
FTSE has launched a FTSE-ASEA index with the African Securities Exchanges Association, which will help to unlock Africa an investment for larger portfolio investors. The ...
The Securities Commission of Zimbabwe (www.seczim.co.zw) has declined to grant the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (www.zse.co.zw – under maintenance), an operating licence, according to local media, ...
Africa is using much less than its share of global financing available for carbon reduction projects, but the process to apply is complicated and a ...
"Africa reminds me of China back in 1999. If you missed China then, don't do that (miss Africa) now," is how Plamen Monovski, chief investment ...
Share prices on the Tunisian Stock Exchange have been moving ahead all November, starting with a positive reaction to the meeting between Rachid Ghannouchi, leader ...
Aureos Africa Health Fund invested $2.5 million in a Kenyan hospital and health insurance company, the Avenue Group, which offers affordable healthcare cover, integrated ...
2012 could be an active year for African bonds and particularly eurobonds, judging by the 5.5 times oversubscription for the Namibia's debut $500 million, 10-year ...
The Namibian government issued a debut US$500 million, 10-year Eurobond on 27 October and got a price of 5.75%, taking advantage of a lull in ...
Securities Africa held its annual Charity Trading Day on 9 November. The broker-dealer teamed up with Child Welfare SA and 100% of all revenue ...
The International Finance Corporation plans to invest up to $700 million in new African telecommunications projects in this year and the next, says Reuters.
Reuters newsagency has put together stories on issuers' and investors' difficulties with African stock markets. These include lack of liquidity and sinking currencies. It ...
East African venture capital firm InReturn Capital has entered a partnership with Hurlingham Eye Care Services group (HECS). InReturn Capital is an impact investing company ...