11/12/2018
Participants from DFIs, institutional investors, sovereign wealth, equity and private sector CEOs from across the continent congregated in Johannesburg, South Africa to attend the first ever transaction-based Forum on the continent.
11/09/2018
It was discovered that the commission gave a directive to the PFAs to commence the payment to the retirees, using the funds in the Pension Protection Levy, which it imposed on the operators.
11/09/2018
“The bank is on course to breaking-even in 2019,” chief executive Raminder Bir Singh said in a statement.
11/09/2018
Dr Adesina said the AfDB, through AIF and its partners, would accelerate private sector investments in Africa through a combination of project preparedness and development, policy environment, project bankability and investment promotion.
11/09/2018
Bank has already increased tech spend by around 40% this year
11/08/2018
He stated that the bank was desirous of passing ethics on to the youth
11/08/2018
In light of these factors, Smith said that investors were understandably looking at international options, such as efficient overseas property investments, to help build and safeguard their wealth.
11/08/2018
This initiative, the first of its kind and being promoted by the Bank, was signed on the first day of the Bank’s inaugural Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg.
11/08/2018
We have yet to see what key measures the new government will take on foreign policy
11/07/2018
The Bank estimates the continent needs between US$130 billion and US$170 billion a year to fund its critical development needs.
11/07/2018
This drive for new investment opportunities on the continent is also being fuelled by global factors like Brexit and the trade wars
11/06/2018
This has coincided with changes in top executive posts in some of the country’s lenders.
11/06/2018
However, for Chinese financiers, developers and multilateral development financial institutions, this will offer further opportunities to make money from the continent.
11/06/2018
For decades, risk, or at least the perception of it, has been a major impediment to Africa's efforts to attract foreign investment
11/06/2018
Sankar noted that returns are favourable and that CPI has averaged 5.7% since the implementation of inflation targeting.
11/06/2018
The Government of South Africa, the African Development Bank and several multi-lateral development partners are hosting the Forum expected to become a key springboard for investment and an annual event.
11/06/2018
It does not matter the manner in which some of these women have acquired their wealth, as some have worked for it while others have inherited it.
11/05/2018
We can only presume that Leo Mugabe made several million us dollars, at least, from the deal.
11/05/2018
The shilling last Thursday clawed back some lost ground closing at 102.05 to the dollar to stand at a nine-month low.
11/04/2018
Bamidele Famoofo presents the scorecard