Exchange news

Exchange news

First global company lists on Stock Exchange of Mauritius

The first offshore company was approved to be listed for trading on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius. Evisa Investments Ltd, which has invested in Kenyan ...

Exchange news

Strategy – NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Borse turn to technology and new targets

Mega-mergers and competition continues among the world’s biggest exchanges, despite the move by European regulators to ban Deutsche Börse (DB) and NYSE Euronext (NYX) from ...

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Tanzanite miner Richland heads for Dar-es-Salaam bourse listing

Tanzanians are to be able to invest in the gems that bear their country’s name, tanzanite. Richland Resources Ltd, listed on the London Stock Exchange’s ...

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Africa calls for regional integration and financial infrastructure

South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan said the continent needs to take advantage of having a market of 1bn people and some of the ...

Exchange news

British small-cap stockex PLUS-SX up for sale

PLUS Markets, a British-regulated investment exchange for trading the shares of small companies, has put itself up for sale on 3 Feb.

Capital raising

JSE seeks more African equity listings in 2012, targets telecoms, mining and financials

The JSE Ltd, South Africa’s securities exchange, is hoping to attract more listings from the rest of Africa in 2012 and to expand its range ...

Capital raising

East African investors opening accounts at Nairobi Stock Exchange

The number of investors from other East African countries opening trading accounts at Kenya’s Nairobi Stock Exchange is still very small, but has grown more ...

Exchange news

FTSE Group working on Pan-Africa index with African Securities Exchanges Association

FTSE has launched a FTSE-ASEA index with the African Securities Exchanges Association, which will help to unlock Africa an investment for larger portfolio investors. The ...

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Zimbabwe Securities Commission refuses licence for ZSE bourse

The Securities Commission of Zimbabwe (www.seczim.co.zw) has declined to grant the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (www.zse.co.zw – under maintenance), an operating licence, according to local media, ...

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Tunisia Stock Exchange positive on economic prospects

Share prices on the Tunisian Stock Exchange have been moving ahead all November, starting with a positive reaction to the meeting between Rachid Ghannouchi, leader ...

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Securities Africa – thanks for supporting charity trading day

Securities Africa held its annual Charity Trading Day on 9 November. The broker-dealer teamed up with Child Welfare SA and 100% of all revenue ...

Exchange news

Is lack of liquidity driving African issuers to list on London Stock Exchange and others?

Reuters newsagency has put together stories on issuers' and investors' difficulties with African stock markets. These include lack of liquidity and sinking currencies. It ...

Exchange news

African Stock Exchanges Association conference tackles key issues

Developing Africa’s securities exchanges is critical for the continent’s development, with capital markets standing between huge demand for capital for growth and huge demand to ...

Capital raising

Mobius remains bullish on Nairobi Securities Exchange, says FT

Mark Mobius, veteran emerging markets investor and head of Templeton Emerging Markets, is bullish about the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), although it is the worst-performing ...

Exchange news

UK’s regulator FSA warns on unregistered “ethical” tree investment schemes

The UK’s regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has issued a warning about unregulated “sustainable, ethical and alternative” investments. It says: “We are seeing an ...

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Private equity exits total $1.2bn

Private equity managers (GPs) have exited some $1.2bn of investments this year, spurred by new interest and good deal values, according to data from Preqin. ...

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Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to set up Investor Protection Fund

The Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria is considering setting up an Investor Protection Trust Fund. This comes after news that no-one has claimed from a ...

Capital raising

Bigger role for African Development Bank, considering move back to Cote d’Ivoire

The African Development Bank is playing its role in Africa with skill and is getting more backing from its principal shareholders because of its successes ...

Exchange news

BRICS stock exchanges form alliance

The securities exchanges of the “BRICS” emerging market bloc have announced a joint initiative to expose investors to the dynamic economies of the bloc members, ...

Exchange news

Broker supplies clients with faster African investor relations (IR) data

Another step forward for Africa-based investor relations (IR) specialist Rob Stangroom. He announced that Zimbabwe-based stockbroker Lynton Edwards Securities is using data direct from corporate ...

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