Robin Hood tax on financial transactions proposed for fight against AIDS
Activists are calling for a tax of 0.005% on all financial transactions worldwide, to raise some $33 billion dollars per year for development and particularly ...
Activists are calling for a tax of 0.005% on all financial transactions worldwide, to raise some $33 billion dollars per year for development and particularly ...
"Currently our capitalisation is just above US$3 billion and is falling, but if we attract big companies to list, especially in the mining and banking ...
Africa regional funds attracted $484 million inflows in the first half of 2010, says EPFR Global, and total investment fund allocation to Africa was a ...
Leading African private equity house Citadel Capital has this week announced 2 cement deals. Citadel was recently named “African Business of the Year” at a ...
From when trading started at 10am last Sunday, 11 July, NASDAQ Dubai is routing listed equities trades through the trading platform of Dubai Financial Market. ...
A UK-based investment and advisory firm concentrating on African venture capital managers has announced its first investment. Jacana Venture Partnership on 29 June announced that ...
Private equity firm Citadel Capital, with $8.3 billion in investments, has won the title of “African Business of the Year” at a gala awards ceremony ...
Preparations continue in Rwanda for the listing of BRALIRWA. It will be the first Initial Public Offer on the Rwanda Over-The-Counter stock market
Kenya’s Government has successfully issued a 25-year bond, which sets a marker for the capital market, points the way for other African markets to follow, ...
The Uganda Securities Exchange is aiming to finish immobilizing the shares listed for trading on 28 June, according to a statement issued by the bourse, ...
South Africa’s full service securities exchange, the JSE Ltd, on 17 May recorded 205,748 trades valued at more than R20 billion (US$2.6 billion). This coincided ...
Tunisian car retailer Ennakl Automobiles, official distributor of Volkswagen, Seat, Audi and Porsche and part of the Group Princesse El Materi Holding, headed by Mohamed ...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) is keeping open its offer, made earlier this year, to waive listing fees for downstream oil majors, major telecommunications companies ...
South Africa’s first, specialised, private equity clean technology fund, Evolution One Fund, has reached its final closing after raising R700 million (US$92 million) from local ...
Finance compatible with Islamic investment principles is taking further root in Kenya. There has been take up of sukuk portions of infrastructure bonds launched by ...
Liquidity is up, while the number of days for settlement and cases of fraud are down in bond trading as fixed-income traders and investors flock ...
Adlevo Capital Managers (www.adlevocapital.com) announced on 10 June that it has completed the first closing of Adlevo Capital Africa LLC fund with capital commitments of ...
A top line-up of speakers from the financial community launched the Africa Sustainable Investment Forum (AfricaSIF- http://www.africasif.org) on 9 June at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. ...
Rwanda’s Capital Markets Advisory Council expects 4 more Kenyan cross-listings this year on the Rwanda Over The Counter market, which is run by CMAC, bringing ...
South Africa’s JSE stock exchange is requiring listed companies to integrate their sustainability reports with their annual reports, with effect from this month. According to ...