Bond issues for PTA Bank and Nigeria’s UBA Bank
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 ...
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 ...
The African Development Bank Group (www.afdb.org) is urging the G-20 Summit to increase its resources, to help Africa recover. Meanwhile IFR Markets news service says ...
Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) announced on 22 September it has committed $25 million to Wananchi Group Holdings
The brightest and best of Africa’s capital markets were highlighted in New York on 21 September at an awards dinner.
The winners of the Africa investor Index Series Awards
Private equity and venture capital opportunities in Africa, billed “the world’s fastest-growing continent”, are on the agenda of the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) 8th ...
US$8 billion was invested in developing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Africa in 2008, according to the Secretary-General of International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
Trading soared 31% in number of deals on the JSE Ltd (South Africa's Johannesburg Stock Exchange) and the merger with teh Bond Exchange of South ...
Regulators and players in the Nigerian capital markets hope recent actions against five banks will restore confidence in the market, but it looks as if ...
Cash-rich Chinese banks continue taking ground in Africa, with the announcement on 11 September that South Africa's Standard Bank has a US$1 billion loan facility ...
The Uganda Securities Exchange (www.use.or.ug) is set to introduce electronic trading before the end of 2009 and an East African common stock market to be ...
Impact investing represents big shift for Africa, as highlighted at this week's Social Capital 09 conference in San Francisco.
The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has received regulatory approval from the Capital Markets Authority for a corporate bond with a nominal value (face value) ...
Absa Capital wants to dual list its NewGold Gold Bullion Debentures Exchange Traded Fund on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE).
The Securities Commission of Zimbabwe, which regulates the stock market, has drafted a statutory instrument outlining general rules for stakeholders in the stock market, reports ...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank group, committed investments in the following African countries last year: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, ...