Top performances for USD investors at Africa’s stock exchanges
Malawi came out as Africa’s top-performing exchange to USD-based investors over 2013 with a strong 62.4% return. Eight out of 13 African exchanges beat the ...
Malawi came out as Africa’s top-performing exchange to USD-based investors over 2013 with a strong 62.4% return. Eight out of 13 African exchanges beat the ...
A leading African private equity house Development Partners International (DPI) has reached the first close of its second pan-African African Development Partners II (ADP II) ...
Nigerian stockbrokers are to build their expertise under a working relationship between the New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) and the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers ...
The total value of mergers and acquisitions deals in Africa by foreign investors was $183 billion over the ten years 2003-2012, up threefold on the ...
African countries (apart from South Africa) are set to place $7 billion of debt this year, buoyed by low interest rates and a huge global ...
Entrepreneurs running small and medium-enterprises (SMEs) in West and East Africa stand to benefit from a new $75m private equity fund. The announcement follows the ...
The International Finance Corporation plans to issue a $50 million (NGN 8 billion) local-currency "Naija" bond in Nigeria to support the domestic capital markets and ...
Africa's 24 stock markets should learn to work together better if they are to seize high levels of investor interest, said Nicky Newton-King, CEO of ...
New giants are arising in African investments – the domestic pension funds. Several countries have funds worth billions of US dollars and in many they ...
The 86 emerging markets members of the world’s securities markets regulator, International Organization of Securities Commissions form 80% of IOSCO membership and are increasingly important ...
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission hopes to boost liquidity on the Nigerian Stock Exchange by getting previously privatized enterprises to list their shares and is ...
Volumes are growing in Nigeria's bond market, boosted by inclusion in JP Morgan Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets (GBI-EM) from 1 October as Africa’s second entrant. ...
Leading African private equity group Actis has won the title for “Best Developer in Africa” in the 8th annual global Euromoney Real Estate Survey run ...
Pan-African stockbroker and financial services firm Securities Africa has acquired a Nigerian stockbroker, Skye Stockbrokers Limited. This week it announced a name change to Securities ...
World investors and debt-rating agencies should rethink criteria for evaluating political and other risk. “Risk is up for developed markets (DM) and down for Emerging ...
Today the Nigerian Stock Exchange is to launch its market-making programme. This will be a hybrid process, with market makers offering 2-way (buy-sell) price quotes ...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange says it will have the fastest trading system in Africa when it upgrades its trading to NASDAQ OMX Group’s X-Stream platform, ...
Reuters newsagency has put together stories on issuers' and investors' difficulties with African stock markets. These include lack of liquidity and sinking currencies. It ...
Private equity managers (GPs) have exited some $1.2bn of investments this year, spurred by new interest and good deal values, according to data from Preqin. ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria is considering setting up an Investor Protection Trust Fund. This comes after news that no-one has claimed from a ...