Innovation and trading boom on Africa’s biggest exchange
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 ...
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, ...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced that it committed to $1.8 billion worth of new investments across 30 countries in Africa in the fiscal year ...
Aureos Africa Fund has increased funds under management to US$318 million
Tanzania seems to be warming to the idea of linking the East African stock exchanges, in what could eventually be the development of a major ...
The JSE Ltd has three more countries in its first year programme, building links with leading issuers, regulators, brokers and African exchanges.
The listing bell rang at the Namibian Stock Exchange (www.nsx.com.na) on 4 August for the listing of West Australian Metals Limited (“WAM”) on the NSX’s ...
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority is putting new regulations into law by the end of August, including tighter controls on stockbrokers and investment banks. According to ...
A Regional Capital Markets Conference for Africa is to be held next month under the theme: “Towards effective regulation and development of an efficient capital ...
Emerging Capital Partners announced it has bought controlling stakes in Shoresal and Almes - both North African construction companies - for a total USD $26.2 ...
With South Africa’s recession expected to hit profits, specialist investment banking group Investec said on 28 July it would place up to 22 million new ...
The process of demutualizing the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has begun, according to Chief Executive Emmanuel Munyukwi, quoted in The Herald local newspaper. By selling shares ...
Bonds are becoming increasingly active in Kenya, and the bond market at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) is proving a good place to raise medium- ...