Africa’s securities exchanges to debate how to counter the crisis
The African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) is set to discuss "Global Crisis: Opportunities for African Capital Markets” within 2 weeks. The 13th ASEA conference will ...
The African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) is set to discuss "Global Crisis: Opportunities for African Capital Markets” within 2 weeks. The 13th ASEA conference will ...
Aureos Capital at the start of November launched its $400m sub-Saharan private equity fund focusing on small- to mid-market companies. The Aureos Africa Fund was ...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange is seeking some US$33 million in capital for its fifth software upgrade and also to help finance the Sierra Leone stock ...
KenGen's KSh25 billion (US$336 million) bond launched the Automated Trading System (ATS) of the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE – www.nse.co.ke) on 9 November.
This is not strictly an African story, but Islamic finance is a very important for much of Africa.. The International Finance Corporation (IFC – www.ifc.org), ...
From 9 November, Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission is to call stockbrokers and other market participants before its Administrative Proceedings Committee (APC). This is part ...
Extracts from the keynote speech by US stockbroker Jonathan Auerbach at a joint conference between his company, Auerbach-Grayson & Company, Nedgroup Securities and Nedbank Capital ...
Africa will have a large role in US$750m Actis Infrastructure 2 fund, which closed on 6 October. The pan-emerging markets fund focuses on power generation ...
The International Finance Corporation (www.ifc.org), a member of the World Bank Group, is investing $100 million into bringing the benefits of better telecommunications to many ...
Three excellent sites offer fine material and services on promoting investor relations, and feature an enticing line-up of online published annual reports of listed companies ...
The Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) has readvertised its request for IT vendors to express their interest in providing a Broker Back Office (BBO) system to ...
A bill to regulate the capital markets and collective investment schemes was tabled in the Rwandan Parliament last week.
South Africa’s securities exchange, the JSE Ltd (www.jse.co.za), is offering trading in gold, platinum and sweet crude oil futures contracts on its commodities derivatives ...
Absa Capital, the investment banking arm of Absa Group, plans to work in a range of African debt markets, particularly in countries where Barclays Bank ...
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority is giving limited refunds to people who lost money with stockbroker Nyagah Securities which collapsed in 2008 and it has set ...
New bond issues are springing across Africa, including Kenya’s Kengen issue for more power generation which closed on 29 September, and bank issues in Nigeria ...
The African Development Bank on 30 September reported orders for over US$1.5 billion for its recent $1 bln benchmark global bond issue in the international ...
The Global Impact Investing Network was launched on 25 September. It is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building infrastructure, activities, education, and research to enable ...
Traders on the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange will be able to use their stocks to access bank finance, according to a scheme launched with the International ...
A leading Kenyan stockbroker says local investment company TransCentury already trades "Over The Counter" and plans to list its shares for trading on a stock ...