African Development Bank and Commerzbank sign for $100m trade finance
The African Development Bank has signed a USD 100 million agreement with Germany-based Commerzbank AG in which the banks will share the default risk on ...
The African Development Bank has signed a USD 100 million agreement with Germany-based Commerzbank AG in which the banks will share the default risk on ...
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 ...
“Unity has no meaning unless it is the ability of the coal miner in Botswana to power a plant in Angola or the farmer in ...
The first Eurobond issued by Rwanda, due to mature in May 2023, raised $400 million at 6.875% and the money will go to start generating ...
A major shift is coming in which investors, individual and institutional, will commit at least a portion of their investable assets to social impact and ...
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published on 4 March a report on liquidity risk management for collective investment schemes (CIS)
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 ...
This week the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has joined the rush into providing boards for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with the launch on 22 ...
Kenya is stepping up corporate governance and the Capital Markets Authority has appointed a 9-member Capital Markets Corporate Governance Committee.
Fortunes improved for investors in companies on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) market, according to a report by Deloitte examining listings and ...
A West Africa private equity fund, Fonds Cauris Croissance II, says it will invest 4 billion FCFA (XOF, equivalent to $8 million) in Azalaï Hotels ...
Sunil Benimadhu, CEO of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius and re-elected President of the African Stock Exchanges Association (ASEA) told the opening session of the ...
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 Initial Public Offer by power company Umeme closed on 7 November and results are expected before the listing on 30 November. Before the close, ...
The business environment is rising higher on the agenda of African governments and more progress is being made, but there are still major issues. Doing ...
According to news reports, the Board of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange is close to negotiating an exit package with CEO Emmanuel Munyukwi, who was suspended ...
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 ...
South Africa’s JSE Ltd continues to expand its commodity derivatives range, adding silver and platinum “quanto futures” and it is helping South Africa's grain ...
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. ...
The World Bank has cut its growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa. Earlier in the year it forecast 5.2% growth overall for SSA economies in 2012, ...