09/15/2015
EIB to visit Zim before year end
Van Damme said EIB will make credit agreements with local banks on a business to business basis.
Investment Banking
09/13/2015
Fidelity Bank adjudged most socially responsible Bank
Fidelity’s commitment to promoting sustainable socio-economic development in Ghana.
09/11/2015
JP Morgan judgment hurts Nigerian assets, pressures banks’ capital
Analysts see over N4trn of passive funds outflow
09/11/2015
Aveng-Collins’ R1.14 billion property deal backed by Nedbank
Corporate Finance at NCIB acted as investment bank and corporate advisor to Aveng
09/06/2015
World Bank approves $80 million for job growth in Tanzania
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved a development policy credit of $80 million towards improving Tanzania's private sector.
09/02/2015
African Development Bank chief to focus on powering Africa
Africa has to industrialise
09/02/2015
New AfDB Chief, Adesina, to Focus on Powering Africa
Buhari calls for new approach to Africa’s economic challenges
09/01/2015
Fidelity Bank gets best workplace award
The lender emerged not only among the top 12 most preferred places to work in Nigeria, but only bank that made the list.
08/27/2015
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe seeks help from West as growth slows across Africa
The 91-year-old President can’t afford his traditional disdain for the West any more.
08/27/2015
European Investment Bank to open Mozambique office in 2016
The EIB has applied more than 18 billion euros in the last 50 years in more than 1,300 projects in 92 countries and regional groups in Africa
08/27/2015
Standard Bank Malawi Wins Global Investor/ISF Awards
It is the first time that Malawi has featured in the Global Investor/ISF sub custodian survey
08/27/2015
Access Bank plans to raise new funds
Foreign investors only contributed N290 million while domestic investors accounted for N40.7 billion.
08/24/2015
Arqaam to host the second GCC and Africa Investors Conference
Arqaam Capital, the specialist emerging markets investment bank, today announced that it is hosting its second GCC and Africa Investors Conference on 14 and 15 September 2015 at the St. Regis Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi.
08/19/2015
Access Bank Misses Share Sale Target as Nigeria Investors Exit
The Lagos-based bank offered 7.63 billion shares at 6.90 naira to existing shareholders in March at a ratio of one for three.
08/19/2015
AfDB bails out Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s bid to join the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) has received a major boost after the African Development Bank (AfDB) chipped in with $4 million of the money required to get registration, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said.
08/17/2015
Standard to invest gains in Africa units
It will rather be focusing on firming up its African operations, specifically its forays into Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire.
08/17/2015
Standard Bank’s finance chief on way out
The disposal of its loss-making London unit was excluded from headline earnings.
08/17/2015
Barclays Bank plays catch-up, eyes small business lending
Equity Bank and Kenya Commercial Bank Group, Kenya’s biggest lenders by depositors and assets respectively, recorded double-digit profit growth for the period
08/17/2015
Standard Bank profit higher on asset sales
Standard Bank’s sale of a majority stake in its London-based global markets business to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in February boosted headline earnings by 27 percent to R10.5 billion for the six months to June, enabling it to focus
08/13/2015
PriceWaterhouseCoopers named SA's Business of the Year at 12th Annual Standard Bank Top Women Awards
Announced on 6 August 2015 at Emperors Palace at the annual Standard Bank Top Women Awards