Conservation tourism pioneer Wilderness Safaris is aiming for a primary listing on the Botswana Stock Exchange (www.bse.co.bw) and a simultaneous secondary listing on the Johannesburg ...
Imara Holdings Ltd, an investment banking and asset management group with operations in 10 countries mostly in southern Africa, aims to expand in Zimbabwe, according ...
Ethiopian Commodity Exchange hosted a meeting to form a body for African commodities exchanges and launches speciality trading system, currently trading speciality high-quality coffees.
Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited recently announced $47.5million investment for a minority stake in Seven Energy, a leading Nigerian gas exploration and development company, according ...
The Aureos Africa Fund is busy with its mission – it says it is the largest fund ever to focus on investing in small to ...
According to Zimbabwe’s Herald newspaper (www.herald.co.zw), it is only months before the introduction of a hub-and-spoke interconnectivity model for SADC stock exchanges as “the first ...
The Uganda Securities Exchange (www.use.or.ug) was set to open the Securities Central Depositary at on 18 February, according to local news.
A Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development (www.fininnov.org) is to be held in Paris on March 4-5, 2010. It is dedicated to innovative financial ...
The Kenyan Government’s Privatisation Commission is taking the next step towards selling a portion of Consolidated Bank of Kenya Ltd by appointing PricewaterhouseCoopers as transaction ...
Telecoms have attracted some of Africa’s biggest and most lucrative equity deals and the 14 Feb sale of $10.7 billion of telecom assets further indicates ...
The regional governors of the African Development Bank (www.afdb.org) have unanimously backed a bank proposal to increase the general capital. According to a communiqué issued ...
African Capital Markets News recently visited Johannesburg and has an EXCLUSIVE email interview with Geoff Musekiwa of the JSE on 2010 prospects for Africa’s securities ...
Financial information company McGregor BFA is offering investors new products, Realtime, which will stream data from South Africa’s JSE Limited securities exchange at lower ...
The closure today (5 February at 5pm local time) of the share offer of Uganda’s National Insurance Corporation Limited (www.nic.co.ug) is likely to result in ...
A new CEO started work at the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (www.dse.co.tz) and share prices surged in the following days, although market participants denied ...
The Commonwealth Business Council has a top lineup for its Africa Investment Forum, due to be held from 8-10 February in Accra, Ghana in conjunction ...
The Rwandan capital markets are set for growth in 2010, including plans for a first local initial public offer (IPO) and developing the Rwandan stock ...
The World Bank continues to step up its investments into Africa, and in February expects first close on a $500 million sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, ...
International stockbroker Exotix (www.exotix.co.uk) is bullish on African equities and on growth prospects. According to the latest report “Top 30 Companies: sub-Saharan Africa excluding South ...
There is more trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange after transaction costs were reduced, effective 10 January