The African Venture Capital Association and Cambridge Associates are to work together to provide extensive, independent aggregate African private equity and venture capital benchmark data ...
U.S. development finance institution, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), is to invest up to $285 million in financing to private equity funds. These in ...
Developing Africa’s securities exchanges is critical for the continent’s development, with capital markets standing between huge demand for capital for growth and huge demand to ...
Mark Mobius, veteran emerging markets investor and head of Templeton Emerging Markets, is bullish about the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), although it is the worst-performing ...
The UK’s regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has issued a warning about unregulated “sustainable, ethical and alternative” investments. It says: “We are seeing an ...
Private equity managers (GPs) have exited some $1.2bn of investments this year, spurred by new interest and good deal values, according to data from Preqin. ...
Government leaders, regulators and decision-makers across Africa recognize the success of private equity in growing companies, creating jobs and developing infrastructure. They are actively considering ...
Caravan Capital Management, an investment fund based in the USA, aims to invest up to $90 million in African equity frontier markets. The fund has ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria is considering setting up an Investor Protection Trust Fund. This comes after news that no-one has claimed from a ...
Pan-African fund manager Finch International Advisors received top honours as its Africa Opportunities Fund was named Africa ex-South Africa Fund of the Year
The African Development Bank is playing its role in Africa with skill and is getting more backing from its principal shareholders because of its successes ...
The securities exchanges of the “BRICS” emerging market bloc have announced a joint initiative to expose investors to the dynamic economies of the bloc members, ...
Another step forward for Africa-based investor relations (IR) specialist Rob Stangroom. He announced that Zimbabwe-based stockbroker Lynton Edwards Securities is using data direct from corporate ...
The Initial Public Offering (IPO) of 58,841,750 shares at TSh 475 (US$ 28 cents) each in Tanzania’s Precision Air Services is set to start on ...
Media report that Renaissance Capital (RenCap), a unit of Russian investment bank Renaissance Group, is drawing closer to a takeover of one of Zimbabwe's largest ...
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority has drafted proposals on corporate governance and is waiting for approval so they can be gazetted and become law.
Ethiopia has raised Birr 7 billion ($408 million) of debt to finance the $4.8 bn Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River, and ...
FT Tilt highlights a swift move by state-backed Chinese company Minmetals Resources (MMR) to acquire upstream mining assets, offering $1.25bn for Toronto-listed Anvil Mining. It ...
Mark Voss of fund manager Silk Invest foresees a turning point for the Egyptian market in a recent note. He also notes growth in Tunisia, ...
Competitive African bank leaders are seizing opportunities of new technology to reach 250m unbanked families. Conference on emerging markets technology innovation and banking coming up ...