Exchange news

Exchange news

African securities markets – shock move to integrated trading pool

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

Bond market coming to Ethiopia, and experts review T-Bills

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. ...

Exchange news

Angolan Stock Exchange “in next 12 months”

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, ...

Exchange news

Mauritius introduces new instruments and lists funds as traders get active

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 ...

Exchange news

COSSE’s hub and spoke model

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 ...

Exchange news

Angolan stock market within 12 months

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 ...

Exchange news

Kenya’s bond trading developing fast

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, ...

Exchange news

LIVE FROM SECURITIES AFRICA/CITIGROUP CONFERENCE

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 ...

Ethiopia

NSE to launch commodity exchange “by June”

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 ...

Capital raising

Results of Uganda’s NIC privatisation share offer

Uganda's National Insurance Corporation (www.nic.co.ug), was oversubscribed after Uganda Shilling (UGX) 9.5 billion (US$4.6 million came in applications when Government offered its remaining 40% stake ...

Exchange news

Botswana finished $722 mln bonds issuance

The Government of Botswana has ended its P5 billion (US$722 million) bond issuance programme with an oversubscribed auction by the Bank of Botswana last Friday, ...

Exchange news

Nairobi SE members approve demutualization

The members and directors of the Nairobi Stock Exchange (www.nse.co.ke) have approved the demutualization of the Nairobi Stock Exchange, subject to enactment of requisite ...

Exchange news

Wilderness Safaris public offer aims for BSE and JSE Africa Board

Conservation tourism pioneer Wilderness Safaris is aiming for a primary listing on the Botswana Stock Exchange (www.bse.co.bw) and a simultaneous secondary listing on the Johannesburg ...

Exchange news

Imara Holdings on expansion path

Imara Holdings Ltd, an investment banking and asset management group with operations in 10 countries mostly in southern Africa, aims to expand in Zimbabwe, according ...

Ethiopia

Meeting to form body for African commodities exchanges and ECX launches speciality trading system

Ethiopian Commodity Exchange hosted a meeting to form a body for African commodities exchanges and launches speciality trading system, currently trading speciality high-quality coffees.

Exchange news

SADC stock exchanges move towards links

According to Zimbabwe’s Herald newspaper (www.herald.co.zw), it is only months before the introduction of a hub-and-spoke interconnectivity model for SADC stock exchanges as “the first ...

Exchange news

Uganda central securities depository went “live”

The Uganda Securities Exchange (www.use.or.ug) was set to open the Securities Central Depositary at on 18 February, according to local news.

Exchange news

JSE’s Africa Board: Future gateway to Africa’s capital markets?

African Capital Markets News recently visited Johannesburg and has an EXCLUSIVE email interview with Geoff Musekiwa of the JSE on 2010 prospects for Africa’s securities ...

Exchange news

Cost cut on real-time JSE data

Financial information company McGregor BFA is offering investors new products, Realtime, which will stream data from South Africa’s JSE Limited securities exchange at lower ...

Exchange news

Uganda insurance listing closes 5 February

The closure today (5 February at 5pm local time) of the share offer of Uganda’s National Insurance Corporation Limited (www.nic.co.ug) is likely to result in ...

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