Nigeria and Zambia joining African rush into bonds
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 ...
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 ...
Rwanda's Capital Markets Advisory Council has launched a 2 weeks’ pre-offer campaign across the country to sensitize people ready for the initial public offer of ...
Renaissance Capital (www.rencap.com/eng), the Russian emerging-markets bank with operations in Africa, plans to expand next year into Egypt and at least 3 other African countries, ...
Ecobank, a leading Pan-African banking group, has launched Ecobank Capital, its new capital markets and investment banking arm.
The 2010 Africa investor Investment and Business Leader Awards will take place in Washington DC tomorrow (8 October), as part of the Africa activities planned ...
Top Zimbabwean Government women leaders on 30 September launched a US$1 million Zimbabwe Women Investment Fund, aimed at mobilising resources to enhance women's participation in ...
The wave of mega acquisitions which has gained momentum in South Africa this year could only be the start of a takeover tsunami, as large ...
South Africa is proposing amendments to the Income Tax Act to level the playing field between Islamic banks and conventional banking, although no date has ...
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 ...
Cash has flowed into African equity funds in 51 of the past 52 weeks, according to a report on newsagency Reuters, citing Washington-based EPFR Global, ...
The International Finance Corporation is investing $21 million to guarantee coffee crops. The facility would be to support the Ethiopian Coffee Initiative run by ...
Africa investor is holding its annual Index Series conference at the New York Stock Exchange on 17 September. The aim is to bring African CEOs ...
South Africa’s Standard Bank will provide $100 million as credit to up to 750,000 farmers in 4 African countries in the next 3 years, according ...
The Central Bank of Swaziland on 27 August sold the first longer-term Government bonds to raise money for development projects. It plans further sales this ...
British development finance institution, CDC (www.cdcgroup.com) has committed US$50 million to the GEF Africa Sustainable Forestry Fund (GASFF), the first private equity fund to focus ...
According to a recent study, $25–$30 billion in new investment will be needed in health-care assets, including hospitals, clinics, and distribution warehouses over the coming ...
Agenda to mobilize the responsible development of private sector health care in sub-Saharan Africa: 1. Develop and enforce quality standards. Initial efforts at enhanced regulation ...
The African Development Bank is aiming to commit up to $10 billion a year to infrastructure in Africa, according to a story on Reuters. Alex ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has moved in hard on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on 4 August, ordering the Director-General to leave her post and ...
The African Development Bank has joined investors into the New Africa Mining Fund II equity fund investing in mining projects throughout Africa, especially Southern Africa. ...