Investors back $ billions of African bonds
Interest in African sovereign debt has been climbing again in recent months. Angola plans to issue a $1 billion - $2 billion benchmark bond., Kenya, ...
Interest in African sovereign debt has been climbing again in recent months. Angola plans to issue a $1 billion - $2 billion benchmark bond., Kenya, ...
Standard Chartered Bank in Kenya (www.standardchartered.com/ke/en/) is to issue KSh 2.5 billion ($30.2 million) in new shares in order to buy the custody business of ...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) management has hit back at claims that its trading system is obsolete and urged the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Volatility and increased uncertainty in global markets last week meant extra demands for huge trading volumes on world markets. South Africa’s JSE Ltd. handled the ...
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has new rules, according to local press. The new rules, signed by Director General Ms Arunma Oteh, became effective ...
Inside the Somali pirates stock exchange, where their voyages are financed (and missing pirates mourned). An interesting story by Reuters.
South Africa’s JSE Ltd this week announced that it was close to creating Africa’s first “dark pool” for trading large orders. These are structures that ...
South Africa could be the centre of mining finance for Africa, according to Mick Davis, CEO of international mining company Xstrata, as reported in the ...
Companies on Johannesburg’s Alternative Stock Exchange (AltX), a division of the JSE Ltd (www.jse.co.za), continue to struggle to attract sufficient mainstream attention. However, at a ...
Kenya’s Government says it will float the first 25-year bond since the 1960s, as part an initiative to help financial institutions offer long-term debt products ...
Nigerian media has been writing about the succession of acclaimed Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, set to withdraw as Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the ...
Fears of the potential impact of IT disruption on African capital markets, combined with a long-running initiative to pool fragmented markets for more liquidity, led ...
Ethiopia may soon have corporate bonds, paving the way to a bond market, according to a press conference last week by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. ...
All the frameworks are in place for an Angolan stock exchange, and a first listing and official launch could be expected in the current year, ...
Sunil Benimadhu, Chief Executive Officer of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius: The Mauritius market lost 50% in, as investors worried about the fallout of the ...
Sunil Benimadhu, Chief Executive Officer of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius: We have had lots of discussion on how to link different markets. Lots of ...
Eduardo Vieira, President of Angolan stockbroker Novacao Corretora de Valores As the former minister has said, we strongly anticipate that there will be a stock ...
Andre DeSimone, Kestrel Capital stockbroker, Nairobi The Nairobi capital market has seen a lot of volatility and many local institutions pulled out. At one point, ...
We are blogging LIVE from the 5th Annual African Investment Conference, organized by stockbroker Securities Africa and Citigroup. This brings to London a lot of ...
The Nairobi Stock Exchange (www.nse.co.ke) has set mid-2010 as the target to launch a commodities exchange. It will be a joint effort by the National ...