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Funds

Oppenheimer family and Temasek SWF launch African private equity fund

South Africa's E. Oppenheimer family and Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek Holdings have set up a $300 million private equity fund called Tana Africa Capital to ...

Exchange news

JSE boosts net profit by 22% for first half

South Africa’s JSE Ltd reported a 22% increase in net profit after tax to R253.8 million for the 6 months to June, driven by a ...

Exchange news

Rencap appoints Yvonne Ike as new CEO West Africa

Leading emerging markets investment bank Renaissance Capital has appointed Yvonne Ike as its Chief Executive Officer, West Africa. She will be based in Lagos.

Capital raising

Berbera Port-China deal – change in the Horn?

Somaliland media sources and other rumours have suggested (12 Aug) that a deal on Somaliland’s Berbera port is imminent with China and Ethiopia.

Capital raising

Ethiopia to sell 18 more state-owned enterprises

Ethiopia’s Privatization and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA) has privatised 287 enterprises since 1995, and plans to sell 18 companies in direct sales and 5 ...

Exchange news

Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission educates, partners Nollywood film

Nigerian regulator, the Securities & Exchange Commission, is travelling the country to build education and awareness. SEC Director General Arunma Oteh, SEC Commissioners and senior ...

Exchange news

Nigerian Stock Exchange suspends 27 shares, including 3 banks

The Nigerian Stock Exchange has placed 24 companies on full suspension for failing to submit their financial statements for the year ended 31 December, 2010 ...

Capital raising

Private equity and lenders hop aboard $287m Kenya-Uganda railway

The International Finance Corporation and 6 leading international finance institutions provided $164 million in financing to Rift Valley Railways International to rehabilitate the Kenya-Uganda railway ...

Capital raising

Tullow Oil listing to double value of shares on Ghana Stock Exchange

Tullow Oil plc is to start trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange on 27 July after allocating 3,531,546 ordinary shares of 10p each in a ...

Capital raising

British American Investment launches Kenya IPO

British American Investment Company (Kenya) Ltd launched its initial public offer (IPO) this week. It aims to raise KES 5.58 billion (US$62.2 million) for ...

Capital raising

Kenya’s Transcentury private equity firm to list on Nairobi SE

Kenyan private equity firm TransCentury is to list through introduction at the Nairobi Stock Exchange on 14 July at a price of KES50 (USD0.58) a ...

Exchange news

Stock Exchange of Mauritius aims to be global centre for listing funds

The dynamic Stock Exchange of Mauritius is pushing ahead with building itself as a secure base for international funding transactions and an African alternative to ...

Funds

Helios closed giant $900 mn African private equity fund

Pan-African private equity firm Helios Investment Partners announced that it had raised $900 million for its second Africa-focused private equity fund, and the fund was ...

Egypt

International lenders back Egypt debt, domestic yields climb

Egypt is chasing its short-term domestic market to fund ballooning Government deficits, but seems to be preparing for a new Eurobond issue to replace $1 ...

Egypt

Egypt travel ban lifted on PE firm Citadel Capital chairman

Leading African private equity firm Citadel Capital said that Egypt's public prosecutor has lifted a travel ban imposed in April on its chairman Ahmed Heikal, ...

Capital raising

Does China push out private equity in Africa?

Interesting article in today's FT Tilt on whether China's model of cheap loans backing Chinese construction squeezes out private equity. The author suggests there could ...

Nigeria

Rest in peace, Tayo Aderinokun

Commiserations on the passing of Tayo Aderinokun, CEO and MD of Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust Bank plc, who died from cancer in Paddington hospital, London on ...

Kenya

Indian telco to leave E African market – cites slow Govt approvals

Indian steel-to-outsourcing conglomerate Essar has cancelled deals to buy telecoms operators in Uganda and Congo and is to sell its Kenyan operations, under the Yu ...

Egypt

Revolution at Egyptian Exchange – innovations to boost liquidity

The Egyptian Exchange is to introduce new products and trading innovations, including remote orders placed abroad, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), intraday trades and short selling. Mohamed ...

Funds

New directions for giant CDC: targets poor with $3.1 bn

Giant UK development finance institution the CDC Group has announced a new business plan. Changes include direct investing rather than via funds, and focusing only ...