10/04/2016
LakeStreet Tech Investor Roadshow headed to Cape Town
The event seeks to identify scalable and disruptive technology startups from South Africa, and connect investors with these companies
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10/03/2016
Gulf investments in Africa beginning to spread far and wide
Investors are becoming increasingly cognisantthat market volatility, partly owing to limited liquidity, requires a longer-term investment approach.
09/30/2016
SAIBPP convention targets wealth redistribution
The SAIBPP Awards dinner will wrap up the two-day programme where industryprofessionals, will once again honour property industry leaders
09/29/2016
Ex-Accenture SA boss behind new tech fund
Grotech wants to demonstrate to its investors that it can find and invest in Silicon Valley-type companies in South Africa
09/29/2016
The Bank of China opens subsidiary in Mauritius
Bank of China is the most internationalized and diversified bank in China.
09/29/2016
How Buhari’s Minister, StanbicIBTC aided MTN’s $13.9b capital flight + Documents
The nation has experienced mismanagement and corruption that characterized the oil boom era.
09/29/2016
Morocco, ‘Popular Destination’ for Investments in Africa: South African Bank
RBM noted that investment opportunities are still available in Africa.
09/27/2016
CSD consortium focuses on fintech for emerging markets
We were spending the same amount of money to investigate the same solution.
09/26/2016
US fund opens Nairobi office in hunt for mega deals
The Americans had expressed interest in the Sh2 trillion project last year during President Obama’s visit for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).
09/26/2016
EGM launches naira trading platform for global markets
“It gives more value to the naira because more people will have to look for it to trade global markets.”
09/26/2016
Carlyle to buy South Africa's promotional products supplier
Carlyle said it expects the transaction to close in 2016, subject to regulatory approvals and gave no further financial details.
09/23/2016
Life insurance under pressure
The direct insurer had a 43% increase in earnings and RMI’s portion was R1.66bn, about half of the parent’s normalised earnings.
09/23/2016
World Pension Summit will Present Solutions to Africa’s Challenges – PenCom DG
The DG, PenCom said the summit which is well-packaged to attract professionals around the world, is aimed at exchanging expertise between all pension professionals in Africa
09/22/2016
Morocco's Credit Agricole gets government approval for Islamic bank
The two partners will inject 200 million dirhams of capital into the offshoot before doubling it to 400 million later.
09/20/2016
Qatar’s Aventicum CM to open its AQS MENA Fund to wider international investor base
Aventicum says its investment strategy seeks to capitalise on the inherent value in MENA markets to deliver long-term value creation across multiple market cycles.
09/19/2016
Marriot Int’l takes off in Nigeria with Renaissance Hotel
The hotel also boasts of eight conference rooms of different capacities ranging from 10 to 500 comfortable seats.
09/19/2016
Africa investment heats up as pension funds stay local
U.S. and European pension funds have been allocating to Africa private equity for the last few years, but this also has grown.
09/19/2016
South African wine reaches all time high at auction
This was in spite of a slightly lower volume on offer of 4% from the 2015 auction.
09/18/2016
AfDB launches three-year $1b Global benchmark
The mandate for a new $1 billion “no-grow” three-year benchmark was announced in London last Tuesday
09/16/2016
Zimbabwe to issue $75 million in bond notes
The notes will first be introduced with $1 and $5 denominations.