East Africa securities training for thousands
The International Finance Corporation and East Africa’s Securities Industry Training Institute (SITI), based at the Uganda Securities Exchange have signed an agreement to broaden training ...
The International Finance Corporation and East Africa’s Securities Industry Training Institute (SITI), based at the Uganda Securities Exchange have signed an agreement to broaden training ...
Citigroup expects to see strong demand for Nigeria's $500 million debut Eurobond despite volatility in global capital markets. It plans roadshow this week.
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority has cut the cost of trading bonds from 0.04% per cent (KSh400 for every KSh1 million transacted) to 0.035% (KSh350 for ...
The eurobond recently issued by PTA Bank attracted bids for $650 million compared to a target of $300 million, according to a report in Kenya’s ...
Two economists talk to Business Digest about prospects for the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, which they say are better for 2011 as the economy is expected ...
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange snapped up its first new listing since 2007 on 29 November when Padenga Holdings Limited was admitted as the 77th ...
NYSE Euronext Inc. has seen a threefold increase in the trading of African stocks on its exchanges over the past 5 years and twice as ...
Templeton fund manager Mark Mobius picks China and Nigeria as tips over the next 12 months, according to an interview with Reuters. Mobius oversees more ...
Markets are reacting quickly to the news that Laurent Gbagbo was sworn in as president of Cote d’Ivoire on Saturday (4 Dec). The World Bank ...
According to a top economist of the World Bank, a total of $55 billion of private capital is estimated to be flowing into Africa this ...
Telecoms giant Safaricom Ltd., a mobile phone company that is the biggest listing by market capitalization on the Nairobi Stock Exchange, is selling KSh 4.49 ...
PTA Bank, a multilateral financial institution based in Nairobi, successfully launched a US$300 million Eurobond in November. According to a press release from Standard Bank, ...
Many financial institutions are gearing up their staffing as they start to roll out their African operations. These include banks, stockbrokers and others. African Capital ...
Impact investment is a new asset class, according to a report titled Impact Investments: An Emerging Asset Class and released on 29 November. The report ...
The recruitment of a Director-General and Executive Directors for the Nigerian Stock Exchange will be completed by first week of December, according to news reports ...
The Nigerian Senate’s Capital Market Committee summoned the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Arunma Oteh and the Interim Administrator of the ...
There is an opportunity in providing banking services to a “Missing Middle”, by focusing on financial services for lower- and middle-income groups in Africa, both ...
Liberia has reached a deal with 2 “vulture funds” who had taken it to court to repay debts incurred more than 30 years ago. According ...
Gold miner IAMGOLD Corporation, listed in Toronto, New York and Botswana, was awarded for Corporate Social Responsibility at a dinner after Canada's biggset corporate social ...
The Rwandan Government said today (22 November) that it aims to raise RwFr 22.1 billion (US$37.3 million) from the sale of its 30% stake in ...