South Africa

Cartoon image to advertise Altvest financial company is listing ordinary shares and 3 other classes on the JSE AltX through an IPO
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IPO Watch – Altvest listing on JSE’s AltX to close 1 Oct

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Rainbow Chicken celebrates listing shares for trading on JSE stock exchange.
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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 ...

Cilo Cybin cannabis investment SPAC lists on Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
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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 ...

news of african financial markets, capital markets development
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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 ...

Live share trading order routing in Africa with live trading screen
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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 ...

Africa's renewable energy transition to net zero
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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 ...

black rhino in conservation bond investment
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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 ...

Coca Cola supports small business owners across Africa
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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 ...

Stock Exchange of Mauritius automated trading system
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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: ...

Egypt

Africa’s eurobond outlook 2019

A good overview of Africa’s  $92bn eurobond market, with a summary of 2018 and 5 key themes for 2019, written by Gregory Smith, Director and ...

Other news

Consensys ramps up blockchain rollout in African financial markets with new appointment

Leading blockchain innovator Consensys continues to ramp up its role in shaping the future of financial services and capital markets in Africa with the recruitment ...

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Recent Africa share listings news

Roundup of recent African share listing news including Old Mutual's move back to Johannesburg, Grit Real Estate Income Group and ASA International microfinance debut on ...

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How big are African pension funds?

Traditional assets under management in 12 African countries were $634bn in 2014, set to reach $1.1trn in 2020 (PwC). South Africa's $124bn GEPF is the ...

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Innovative African IPO and listing successes show strong demand

A round-up of recent African IPOs and other listings, many over-subscribed, shows demand and innovation - Namibia scored its first SPAC and Mauritius listed ...

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African IPO pipeline includes $3bn Vivo Energy

Investors have been snapping up Africa-focused IPOs of shares; future listings include a reported offer by Vivo Energy and AfriTin, Cytonn Investments and Hystead.