Tom Minney

Exchange news

JSE to offer “Dark Pool” for very large trades

South Africa’s JSE Ltd this week announced that it was close to creating Africa’s first “dark pool” for trading large orders. These are structures that ...

Other Countries

Angola cuts back on May $4 bln bond

Angola has cut back its plans to raise as much as $4 billion in a sale of bonds without credit ratings, according to a report ...

Other news

Q Resources digs into African mining

Q Resources Plc hopes to raise US$50 million-$100 mln through share sales in order to fund mining acquisitions in Africa, according to reports

Exchange news

“Regulation stops SA from being centre for Africa’s mining finance”

South Africa could be the centre of mining finance for Africa, according to Mick Davis, CEO of international mining company Xstrata, as reported in the ...

Exchange news

AltX companies struggle to attract investors

Companies on Johannesburg’s Alternative Stock Exchange (AltX), a division of the JSE Ltd (www.jse.co.za), continue to struggle to attract sufficient mainstream attention. However, at a ...

Exchange news

Kenya aims for 25-year Treasury bond

Kenya’s Government says it will float the first 25-year bond since the 1960s, as part an initiative to help financial institutions offer long-term debt products ...

Exchange news

Nigerian Stock Exchange – who will be the next CEO?

Nigerian media has been writing about the succession of acclaimed Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, set to withdraw as Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the ...

Capital raising

Rwanda makes $130 mln from privatisations

The sale of 56 enterprises has made at least Rwf 75 billion (US$131 million) for the Government of Rwanda, according to a report in the ...

Exchange news

African securities markets – shock move to integrated trading pool

Fears of the potential impact of IT disruption on African capital markets, combined with a long-running initiative to pool fragmented markets for more liquidity, led ...

Funds

Angola’s first private equity fund raises $28 mln

Angola’s first private equity fund has raised US$28 million in capital in its first closing, in an important step forward for the country’s capital markets. ...

Ethiopia

Bond market coming to Ethiopia, and experts review T-Bills

Ethiopia may soon have corporate bonds, paving the way to a bond market, according to a press conference last week by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. ...

Funds

Private equity firm joins responsible investing

Private equity fund manager Aureos Capital (www.aureos.com) has signed up for a UN-backed globally recognized initiative to promote responsible investment. Aureos specializes in investing into ...

Exchange news

Angolan Stock Exchange “in next 12 months”

All the frameworks are in place for an Angolan stock exchange, and a first listing and official launch could be expected in the current year, ...

Exchange news

Mauritius introduces new instruments and lists funds as traders get active

Sunil Benimadhu, Chief Executive Officer of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius: The Mauritius market lost 50% in, as investors worried about the fallout of the ...

Exchange news

COSSE’s hub and spoke model

Sunil Benimadhu, Chief Executive Officer of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius: We have had lots of discussion on how to link different markets. Lots of ...

Exchange news

Angolan stock market within 12 months

Eduardo Vieira, President of Angolan stockbroker Novacao Corretora de Valores As the former minister has said, we strongly anticipate that there will be a stock ...

Exchange news

Kenya’s bond trading developing fast

Andre DeSimone, Kestrel Capital stockbroker, Nairobi The Nairobi capital market has seen a lot of volatility and many local institutions pulled out. At one point, ...

Kenya

Kenya’s mobile money system is “world’s most successful”

Kenya’s biggest mobile telecommunications company says it will continue to lead the market through its revolutionary mobile payment system M-PESA - already the world’s most ...

Other news

Commodities, internal markets and governance will drive Africa’s growth, say experts

Experts launching the 5th Annual Africa Investment Securities Africa said they could see more growth coming in the 2nd biggest continent.

Exchange news

LIVE FROM SECURITIES AFRICA/CITIGROUP CONFERENCE

We are blogging LIVE from the 5th Annual African Investment Conference, organized by stockbroker Securities Africa and Citigroup. This brings to London a lot of ...

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