12/04/2020
Its current CEO Nnamdi Okonkwo, who has occupied his role since 2014, will be handing over the reins to Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, who will join a short but illustrious list of women at the top of African banks.
12/03/2020
For Standard Bank Group Ltd., the continent’s largest bank, the rollout of vaccines could take time and the risk of “pandemic fatigue” may cause safety lapses during the holidays.
12/03/2020
Annual credit expansion slowed to 13.7% in October, the lowest since January 2019.
12/02/2020
Such flexibility will not be afforded to consumer and SME loans and these segments will drive higher impaired loans over the longer term.
12/02/2020
Open source enables organizations to innovate faster and offers a level of flexibility and agility that would have been difficult to achieve if they were solely reliant on proprietary software
11/27/2020
How the Super-rich Will Be Spending Their Money as Wealth Trends Fluctuate
A recent report by New World Wealth anticipates a move away from commercial airlines and towards private jets.
11/27/2020
Although impairments may remain high for some time, bank returns may begin to stabilise and improve amidst increasing activity, improved efficiency and an impairment peak.
11/27/2020
South Africa downgrades leave banks losing war of attrition
South African banks, especially Capitec, are now too expensive, Hollingworth argues in analysis published on Smart Karma.
11/27/2020
No government can ignore the environment anymore. Instead, all their major decisions – from taxes to subsidies and more – will now have to have a global green economy at their heart.
11/26/2020
A new Oxfam report reveals the huge income, race, class, education, gender and unemployment inequities black women face in this country.
11/26/2020
This was attributed to the lower-than-projected inflows from FDIs and portfolio investments.
11/25/2020
During the lockdown, Flutterwave helped launch Ubbercash and just yesterday, they announced the launch of their payment protection promise, a new policy that protects customers when shopping online and dealing with merchants on its payment platform.
11/24/2020
Improved consumer and business confidence, and strong liquidity flows have helped to deliver a faster than expected recovery.
11/23/2020
Home-grown entrepreneurs’ confidence contrasts with caution of overseas investors
11/20/2020
The pandemic has disproportionately impacted women and girls living in fragile contexts with ripple effects on education, livelihoods and nutrition, among others.
11/19/2020
This is what Covid-19 and the inability or unwillingness of banks to respond appropriately has caused Nigerians.
11/18/2020
For Nigeria, it stated that the pace of recovery of the banking sector would be affected by slow growth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product, depreciation of the local currency and volatile oil prices.
11/18/2020
Director, John Félicité provides an overview of the key discussions from Invest Africa's flagship annual event, The Africa Debate.
11/18/2020
This development, according to analysts, could slow down recovery of the economy.
11/17/2020
A second Covid-19 wave in South Africa would probably result in less severe containment rules as the government pushes ahead with plans to boost the economy.