01/27/2020
Investors were keen on the five-year tranche due to the dearth of short-term bond offers in recent months, with the government raising Sh44.5 billion on this tranche and Sh19.3 billion on the 10-year.
01/27/2020
The practice has come to be known as “catch and release” in common parlance.”
01/27/2020
If this is not the case, the legislation criminalises the promotion of investments in these unapproved or unregulated investment vehicles.
01/27/2020
Lawyers for a Portuguese computer hacker said on Monday he was responsible for revealing the dealings of Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, a corruption scandal with fallout across Europe and Africa.
01/27/2020
This is in direct contravention of Namibian policy objectives aimed at capping foreign ownership in key business sectors.
01/23/2020
The appreciation in the rand appears to be mostly driven by external factors, specifically the pull back of the U.S. dollar as well as a bit of risk-off trade falling.
01/22/2020
They discussed the ongoing progress at Al Salam Bank-Seychelles, a joint venture between ASBB and the Seychelles Pension Fund, and its contribution to the development of the domestic financial services industry in the Seychelles.
01/22/2020
The monthly Compliance Reports are one of the monitoring tools instituted to monitor the level of compliance with the PRA 2014 and other identified lapses.
01/22/2020
A lot more can be done if the right frameworks are in place in the public-private partnership model,’ declares Old Mutual’s Ian Williamson.
01/22/2020
This will give people more voice in the contracts and commitments made by their governments, a critical basis for implementing the rule of law.
01/22/2020
The two countries can now fix exchange rates at the beginning of transactions to prevent currency fluctuations.
01/22/2020
Oliver Alawuba, the Chief Executive Officer, UBA Africa said: “Africa stands to benefit substantially from intra-Africa trade, which is facilitated by the easy flow of capital within the continent.
01/22/2020
According to Bloomberg the report, the measure was among a raft of regulations aimed at forcing banks to boost credit, mainly to farmers, small-and-medium-size businesses and consumers.
01/21/2020
The latest entrant Access Bank of Nigeria revealed in a conference call to investors and analysts that it had to settle on buying loss-making Transnational Bank due to the bureaucracy involved in getting a greenfield licence.
01/21/2020
African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina announced a new $80 million Bank-DFID infrastructure financing partnership .
01/20/2020
The 8th Assembly noted that the contingencies, professional fees, underwriting and consultancy fees inclusive of the 17 per cent interest rate which was to the tune of over N10 billion were too much.
01/20/2020
The agreement covers operations cumulatively valued at $37.2 million and includes a corporate loan to support an East African agribusiness firm’s domestic and regional expansion and two lines of credit targeting SME borrowers.
01/20/2020
The reports further showed that the EAPCC board of directors took home a staggering Sh47 million even as the company continued to suffer cash flow problems which saw it default on a Sh263 million KCB Group loan.
01/20/2020
Dos Santos denied the allegations as “politically motivated.”
01/19/2020
The Department for International Trade and the Department for International Development hosted Start-up Night Africa in partnership with the Lionesses of Africa