East Africa securities training for thousands
The International Finance Corporation and East Africa’s Securities Industry Training Institute (SITI), based at the Uganda Securities Exchange have signed an agreement to broaden training ...
The International Finance Corporation and East Africa’s Securities Industry Training Institute (SITI), based at the Uganda Securities Exchange have signed an agreement to broaden training ...
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority has cut the cost of trading bonds from 0.04% per cent (KSh400 for every KSh1 million transacted) to 0.035% (KSh350 for ...
Telecoms giant Safaricom Ltd., a mobile phone company that is the biggest listing by market capitalization on the Nairobi Stock Exchange, is selling KSh 4.49 ...
PTA Bank, a multilateral financial institution based in Nairobi, successfully launched a US$300 million Eurobond in November. According to a press release from Standard Bank, ...
Kenya’s Nation Media Group has cross-listed its shares at the Rwanda Over-The -Counter (ROTC) market on 2 November
Africa needs to spend $93 billion a year on power, transport and water projects over the next decade to lift growth in the world’s poorest ...
Kenya's Central Depository and Settlement Corporation continues to expand outside the borders of Kenya, buoyed from its 2008 triumph with the region’s biggest initial public ...
Kenyan venture capital company East Africa Capital Partners Ltd is to begin raising its second fund next year, with a target size of USD250 million, ...
Kenya's Government aims to float a KSh10 billion (USD124 million) university bond early in 2011 to help higher learning institutions raise funds to admit more ...
Stakeholders in the Kenyan capital market are still waiting for changes to the Capital Markets Act to allow demutualization of the Nairobi Stock Exchange. According ...
A UK-based investment and advisory firm concentrating on African venture capital managers has announced its first investment. Jacana Venture Partnership on 29 June announced that ...
Kenya’s Government has successfully issued a 25-year bond, which sets a marker for the capital market, points the way for other African markets to follow, ...
Finance compatible with Islamic investment principles is taking further root in Kenya. There has been take up of sukuk portions of infrastructure bonds launched by ...
Liquidity is up, while the number of days for settlement and cases of fraud are down in bond trading as fixed-income traders and investors flock ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Kenya’s biggest mobile telecommunications company says it will continue to lead the market through its revolutionary mobile payment system M-PESA - already the world’s most ...
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 ...