Managers of Wealth Africa

Mohamed El Kettani: “We want to contribute to the modernisation of capital markets in Cameroon”

Attijariwafa Bank, to make a modest contribution to the modernisation of capital markets in Cameroon

Kenya signs $800 million syndicated loans to plug widening budget deficit

President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces re-election in August, has raised Kenya’s borrowing since taking power in April 2013.

Barclays Africa Debt Sale Misses Target as Banks Issue More

That compares with 2.15 billion rand of private placements at a spread of 400 basis points during the second half of last year

Time to shift focus from savings and loans

The need to now shift the focus to the capital market and investment banking.

Raising Funds for Non-bank Financial Institutions in Africa

In South Africa, the deepest and broadest market in Africa, NBFIs have been largely focused on borrowing from the domestic market.

CBK signals end to licensing freeze with nod for Dubai bank

The moratorium stopped the issuing of new permits, excluding mergers, takeovers and acquisitions.

Intra-Africa trade to boost economic growth: South African bank

Standard Bank also believes the continent should fight the negative perception which some potential investors have on Africa just like for other emerging markets.

Another solid year’s performance from Nedbank Corporate & Investment Banking’s Property Finance

Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking delivered another year of strong performance

Revenue tumbles at SA’s six big banks

Banks struggled in countries where a low oil price had caused significant economic distress as well as where regulators had capped interest rates on loans

Standard Bank ‘ready to fight forex claims’

The investigation by the Competition Commission, which sought to prosecute 18 global and local banks for collusion among their currency traders to fix prices on rand to dollar trades

Standard Chartered Bank Ghana pre-tax profit up 279%

The effects of the above drivers resulted in increase of pre-tax profit by 279 per cent to GH¢346 million from GH¢91 million recorded in 2015

BoN takes control of SME Bank assets…launches investigation into potentially dubious investments

It had become alarmed at what it deemed possibly questionable investments in South Africa amounting to between N$181 million and N$196 million.

BMCE Capital Opens New Index for West African Economy and Monetary Union

The West African Economic and Monetary Union Bond Index is designed to calculate the performance of sovereign bonds on the UEMOA bond market.

Barclays Africa, Barclays Plc agree terms of separation

The separation of the London based Barclays PLC from BAGL was first announced in March last year

FNBB profit up 9%

The growth in NII was spurred by the resultant increase in transactional volumes.

A Small Part of Standard Chartered Is Giving the Bank Big Problems

The soured deals were a major reason why annual profit fell short of analysts’ estimates.

Barclays reports surprise capital boost as legal costs loom

While Barclays profits were lower than expected

Coronation Merchant Bank to boost long term funding, despite recession

We have started with strong corporate governance and our risk appetite is very conservative.

An infrastructure deficit is making life in African cities more expensive than it should be

The difficulty is that most of Africa’s worst problems are most evident and visceral in its cities.

Zambia Hails European Bank's Plans to Open Office

The coming of the European bank will improve the country's credit-rating bench mark.