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Stock Exchanges weekly news – 7 September 2026

1. Dangote refinery IPO priced, opens 14 September Africa’s biggest initial public offering (IPO) is to launch on 14 September and close on 13 October. ...

Bonds

Africa’s giant infrastructure finance dominates banking awards

Finance that unleashes giant infrastructure projects was highlighted at the 2026 African Banker Awards, showing the size and scale of current projects as Africa builds ...

Climate

Absa AFMI index shows reform helps in hard times

Two out of three African countries have not improved or slipped backwards in their ratings among the 29 countries scored in the 2025 edition of ...

Exchange news

African exchanges give soaraway returns to USD investors

Global investors have enjoyed top-notch returns by investing on many of the African stock exchanges over the first six months of 2025. Returns for investors ...

Capital raising

Grocer’s $440m is Africa’s biggest IPO of 2024

UPDATE 25 November: The Boxer initial public offer (IPO) raised ZAR 8.5 billion ($471 million) for South Africa’s Pick n Pay. It sold a 34.4% ...

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IPO Watch – Altvest listing on JSE’s AltX to close 1 Oct

Disclaimer: This website and this article are for news and information purposes only. Nothing included here is an investment advertisement or financial promotion nor does ...

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Rainbow Chicken flies on JSE

Rainbow Chicken, one of South Africa’s biggest poultry producers, has listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as part of the unbundling of a conglomerate, The ...

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Cannabis SPAC lists on JSE AltX

An investment company with a focus on cannabis and biotechnology is a new listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) growth and innovation board. Cilo ...

Cote d’Ivoire

West Africa’s BRVM on the road 7-8 May

The BRVM Investment Days roadshow is back in Johannesburg for two days from tomorrow (7-8 May). The highly successful West African regional exchange is organizing ...

Egypt

How good are Africa’s financial markets?

Africa’s financial markets continue to progress and have demonstrated growing financial resilience in 2023, despite a challenging environment. Below we interview Jeff Gable, Absa Group’s ...

Cote d’Ivoire

African exchanges link AELP demonstrates share trades

The cross-border trading platform linking seven of Africa’s leading securities exchanges was launched yesterday 7 December in Abidjan. The link gives access to over 1,000 ...

Cote d’Ivoire

African Exchanges Link platform goes live today

A cross-border order-routing platform linking seven leading African securities exchanges has gone live today, 18 November. The African Exchanges Linkage Project (AELP) technology allows 33 ...

Other news

Africa’s transition to renewable energy – the inside story

Some 600m Africans need urgent access to electricity, and resources to finance this are scarce. This fuels the debate on whether Africa – where some ...

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$150m conservation bond to boost rhino romances

Rhino romances in South Africa’s parks could provide a 9% boost to international bond holders’ returns in a first-of-its-kind conservation bond ...

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Opening Coca Cola’s $8.1bn IPO plan

Coca-Cola could aim for €7bn ($8.1bn) when it lists its African bottling operations with an initial public offering (IPO) of shares before listing on Euronext ...

Exchange news

Mauritius exchange new trading system goes live in Q1 2022

The Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) aims to go live with a new Automated Trading System (ATS) by March 2022 after selecting South Africa’s Securities ...

Funds

Sanlam and Absa to merge as ZAR 1trn fund manager

Absa Bank and Sanlam, both headquartered in South Africa, have announced plans to merge their investment management businesses. The merger could finalize in the first ...

Egypt

AELP Link order platform to boost trading between African exchanges

The African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) has signed a contract on 30 July to procure an order-routing system to link stockbrokers on seven of Africa’s ...

Exchange news

A2X exchange scores dual listing #17

Tharisa plc became the 17th company to list on South Africa’s A2X exchange in February. Kevin Brady, CEO of A2X, said in a press release: ...