Exchange news

Exchange news

Crocodile company swims onto Zimbabwe Stock Exchange

The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange snapped up its first new listing since 2007 on 29 November when Padenga Holdings Limited was admitted as the 77th ...

Exchange news

NYSE Euronext backs growth in African stock exchanges

NYSE Euronext Inc. has seen a threefold increase in the trading of African stocks on its exchanges over the past 5 years and twice as ...

Capital raising

Templeton’s Mobius tells Reuters he picks Nigeria

Templeton fund manager Mark Mobius picks China and Nigeria as tips over the next 12 months, according to an interview with Reuters. Mobius oversees more ...

Cote d’Ivoire

Institutions react to Cote d’Ivoire crisis

Markets are reacting quickly to the news that Laurent Gbagbo was sworn in as president of Cote d’Ivoire on Saturday (4 Dec). The World Bank ...

Exchange news

More career opportunities in Africa’s capital markets

Many financial institutions are gearing up their staffing as they start to roll out their African operations. These include banks, stockbrokers and others. African Capital ...

Exchange news

New leaders for Nigerian SE to be announced soon

The recruitment of a Director-General and Executive Directors for the Nigerian Stock Exchange will be completed by first week of December, according to news reports ...

Exchange news

Heads of Nigeria’s SEC and Stock Exchange summoned to Senate Committee

The Nigerian Senate’s Capital Market Committee summoned the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Arunma Oteh and the Interim Administrator of the ...

Capital raising

BRALIRWA, first Rwandan IPO, launches tomorrow

The Rwandan Government said today (22 November) that it aims to raise RwFr 22.1 billion (US$37.3 million) from the sale of its 30% stake in ...

Exchange news

Africa’s securities markets aim to get busy

Africa’s capital markets have set themselves a tough programme of action, following the executive committee and annual general meetings of the African Stock Exchanges Association ...

Exchange news

Africa’s securities exchanges need stronger role to back growth

African securities exchanges need to play a stronger role in harnessing Africa’s growth opportunities. This was the view of Sunil Benimadhu, President of the African ...

Exchange news

South Africa’s STT also to promote exchange solutions at ASEA

The battle of the African trading systems hots up as South Africa’s Securities and Trading Technology company also promotes its systems at the African Stock ...

Exchange news

Nation Media Group in Rwanda cross listing, new market tax incentives

Kenya’s Nation Media Group has cross-listed its shares at the Rwanda Over-The -Counter (ROTC) market on 2 November

Exchange news

New chairman for Uganda Securities Exchange

Charles Mbiire, the chairman of MTN and Invesco Uganda, has been appointed the new chairman of the governing council of the Uganda Securities Exchange.

Exchange news

Work to start on demutualizing Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange

Demutualization of Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange is to be driven by a National Demutualization Committee (NDC), under the guidance of the Capital Markets ...

Exchange news

Dangote Cement listing boosts Nigerian SE

The Nigerian Stock Exchange saw its capitalization boosted by the Naira 2.1 trillion ($14 billion) listing of Dangote Cement on 26 October.

Exchange news

London tech crash could be topic in corridors at ASEA

The London Stock Exchange trading outage on 2 November and the subsequent delay of its migration of the LSE's main trading to MllenniumIT's platform is ...

Capital raising

Lontoh Coal considers Hong Kong IPO reportedly “to avoid Zimbabwe sanctions”

Lontoh Coal ,a South African unlisted mining company with projects in Zimbabwe, wants to do its next public offer in Hong Kong, according to a ...

Exchange news

Linking African securities markets – the future has arrived

Technology is the driver of securities exchanges around the world – currently there are big battles for supremacy in a range of markets and disclosure ...

Exchange news

New multi-asset exchange opens in Mauritius

A new multi-asset exchange The Global Board of Trade Ltd. started trading operations in Mauritius on 18 October. It is owned by Financial Technologies an ...

Exchange news

Reuters covers new Global Board of Trade exchange

Thomson Reuters, a leading source of trading information is providing real-time prices and data from the Global Board of Trade (GBOT), a multi-asset class exchange ...

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