Nigeria and Zambia joining African rush into bonds
Africa needs to spend $93 billion a year on power, transport and water projects over the next decade to lift growth in the world’s poorest ...
Africa needs to spend $93 billion a year on power, transport and water projects over the next decade to lift growth in the world’s poorest ...
“It has become clear that perceptions are changing. The African continent is now being seen as presenting opportunities,” says Sunil Benimadhu, newly appointed President of ...
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission has commissioned a forensic audit into affairs of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The SEC released a statement on 6 October ...
Rwanda's Capital Markets Advisory Council has launched a 2 weeks’ pre-offer campaign across the country to sensitize people ready for the initial public offer of ...
Renaissance Capital (www.rencap.com/eng), the Russian emerging-markets bank with operations in Africa, plans to expand next year into Egypt and at least 3 other African countries, ...
Ecobank, a leading Pan-African banking group, has launched Ecobank Capital, its new capital markets and investment banking arm.
The 2010 Africa investor Investment and Business Leader Awards will take place in Washington DC tomorrow (8 October), as part of the Africa activities planned ...
Top Zimbabwean Government women leaders on 30 September launched a US$1 million Zimbabwe Women Investment Fund, aimed at mobilising resources to enhance women's participation in ...
The Global Impact Investing Network yesterday (4 October) released the second version of the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS 2.0). This is a standard ...
One of Africa’s biggest and most active stock exchanges is Morocco’s Casablanca Stock Exchange, set up as a joint stock company with a Supervisory Board ...
High on the agenda of Rwanda’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Economy is the bill to regulate the capital market, which has been in Parliament for ...
The wave of mega acquisitions which has gained momentum in South Africa this year could only be the start of a takeover tsunami, as large ...
Kenya's Central Depository and Settlement Corporation continues to expand outside the borders of Kenya, buoyed from its 2008 triumph with the region’s biggest initial public ...
Other Africa investor Index Series Awards 2010 announced on 20 September included listed companies, socially responsible companies, most innovative capital markets regulator, best stockbroker, best ...
The Ghana Stock Exchange has announced that it was awarded the prize as “Most Innovative African Stock Exchange for 2010” at the Africa investor annual ...
Kenyan venture capital company East Africa Capital Partners Ltd is to begin raising its second fund next year, with a target size of USD250 million, ...
South Africa is proposing amendments to the Income Tax Act to level the playing field between Islamic banks and conventional banking, although no date has ...
Kenya's Government aims to float a KSh10 billion (USD124 million) university bond early in 2011 to help higher learning institutions raise funds to admit more ...
South Africa is ranked 1st out of 139 countries for its regulation of securities exchanges, according to the latest World Economic Forum Competiveness Report 2010-2011. ...
Cash has flowed into African equity funds in 51 of the past 52 weeks, according to a report on newsagency Reuters, citing Washington-based EPFR Global, ...