Exchange news

Exchange news

London Stock Exchange – blue blood in the City after shoot out

The Mexican standoff at the London Stock Exchange saw everyone getting hit, after CEO Xavier Rolet quit suddenly, cutting short a Dec 2018 transition. A ...

Capital raising

Innovative African IPO and listing successes show strong demand

A round-up of recent African IPOs and other listings, many over-subscribed, shows demand and innovation - Namibia scored its first SPAC and Mauritius listed ...

Capital raising

African IPO pipeline includes $3bn Vivo Energy

Investors have been snapping up Africa-focused IPOs of shares; future listings include a reported offer by Vivo Energy and AfriTin, Cytonn Investments and Hystead.

Exchange news

More hires at leading Africa and frontier investment bank Exotix Capital

Leading emerging and frontier markets investment bank and stockbroker Exotix Capital continues to add senior hires in key African markets, adding to the strengthening of ...

Capital raising

UK regulator accused of dropping standards to woo $2 trillion listing

Investor institutions are protesting moves by UK capital-markets regulator, Financial Conduct Authority, to alter listing standards to accommodate a potential $2 trillion listing of Aramco ...

Exchange news

Runaway gains continue as Zimbabwe Stock Exchange soars

Zimbabwe Stock exchange continues to soar, with gains of 9.3% yesterday (14 September) in its industrials index which closed at 379.95, up by 163% this ...

Ethiopia

Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) CEO resigns

The CEO of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX), Ermias Eshetu, has tendered his resignation, according to a news report. He will stay until a successor ...

Ethiopia

Do African commodities exchanges achieve the desired results?

The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) has received at least $29m in donor funding since 2008 but is it achieving its aims of transforming agriculture for ...

Exchange news

Strate’s CEO Monica Singer steps down to focus on blockchain

Monica Singer, former CEO of South African CSD Strate, left at the end of August 2017 after nearly 20 years. She will concentrate full time ...

Capital raising

Vodacom Tanzania’s $213m IPO results due 7 August

Vodacom Tanzania's extended $213 million IPO closed 28 July and results are to be announced 7 August, with the listing on the Dar es Salaam ...

Exchange news

Nigerian Stock Exchange’s new Nasdaq market surveillance

The Nigerian Stock Exchange has gone live with a new market-surveillance IT platform powered by SMARTS, a solution supplied by Nasdaq.

Exchange news

South Africa’s securities exchange war goes to court

Court is the next battleground in a war between securities exchanges in South Africa. New exchange 4AX launched a High Court application to set aside ...

Exchange news

Namibian SX and Bank of Namibia poised to launch paperless

The Namibian Stock Exchange and the central Bank of Namibia are working together to create a central securities depository (CSD) for equities, bonds and bills ...

Capital raising

Vodacom Tanzania wrapping up $213m IPO on Dar es Salaam bourse

Some 40,000 Tanzanians subscribed for the TZS476 billion ($213 million) initial public offer (IPO) of Vodacom Tanzania Ltd.

Events

Latest on developments in African capital markets

The 6th Building African Financial Markets (BAFM) seminar had many top presentations on theme: “Global Best Practices to Enhance the African Capital Markets” with more ...

Exchange news

Progress of real-estate investment trusts (REITs) in financing Africa

“There are only 32 REITs (real-estate investment trusts) in Africa with South Africa being the largest REIT market having 27 REITs and Nigeria second with ...

Events

Top speakers for BAFM capacity-building seminar 18-19 May

Leaders and movers of African capital markets are heading to Casablanca for the 6th Building African Financial Markets (BAFM) capacity-building seminar on 18-19 May, organized ...

Exchange news

JSE listed ETF offers 15 African exchanges ex-South Africa

A new AMI Big50 Ex-SA ETF offers investors access to an index covering 50 African companies outside South Africa. It is run by Cloud Atlas ...

Events

World Exchange Congress 2017: First step – get domestic capital markets right

Key points from panel "Alternative exchanges and connecting the African markets: What do you need to know?” at the World Exchange Congress 2017 in ...

Capital raising

IPO for I&M Bank Rwanda extended to 10 March

The extended deadline for the initial public offer (IPO) of I&M bank Rwanda is 10 March. The Government of Rwanda is selling its 19.8% stake ...

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