06/29/2018
In contrast, Africa is uniting under the banner of the African Continental Free Trade Area, which will become the world’s largest trade area.
06/29/2018
Trust in senior leadership, especially leaders that listen, those who set a good ethical example, and who deliver the values of the business, emerged as the top three most important factors in choosing an employer in Africa.
06/29/2018
It’s because they were well regulated.
06/28/2018
Offshore trusts are regularly set up in jurisdictions with low-taxation regimes
06/28/2018
The destruction of the LBC is among the most significant changes brought about by the restructuring
06/28/2018
Islamic finance assets, he noted, are projected to grow by nearly 72 percent to exceed US$3.7trillion by 2022
06/27/2018
the central bank is planning to develop Islamic finance in order to improve financial inclusion, while Somalia’s central bank, re-established in 2009, has since given licences to six Islamic Banks and two takaful companies.
06/27/2018
The primary drivers of our assessment of the banks' standalone credit profiles are their robust loss-absorbing buffers, above our global average for similarly rated peers, and their resilient local currency liquidity buffers.
06/26/2018
“This declining three-year trend may cost Capitec’s its reputation as a disruptor, and is likely due to Capitec’s customers punishing the bank for the platform’s frequent unavailability."
06/26/2018
According to Mercer’s 24th annual Cost of Living Survey, factors like instability of housing markets, low inflation, and fluctuating prices for goods and services are impacting the cost of doing business in various cities around the world.
06/25/2018
These include false invoicing of exports or imports and aggressive tax avoidance measures like registering their companies in offshore tax havens.
06/25/2018
Magda Wiercyka, Magnus Heystek and Jean-Pierre Verster discuss the current state of play, SA’s future outlook and what investors can do to safeguard wealth.
06/25/2018
” The issuance comprised of two series of 180 and 270-days."
06/25/2018
The number of contributors have also grown by 390,000 as it increased from 7.50 million in March 2017 to 7.8 million in December, 2017 and then to 7.90 million as at February 2018.
06/25/2018
The law caps commercial interest rates at four percentage points above the Central Bank of Kenya’s (CBK) benchmark rate
06/25/2018
The research showed that government and parastatals featured prominently in categories and that having high brand awareness does not necessarily make a potential employer attractive to job seekers.
06/25/2018
Coris Bank Senegal has also been selected as the official partner of the Pilot Project of ITFC new West Africa SME Development Program.
06/22/2018
Out of the five largest publicly listed banks in Egypt, four were among the top 5 most efficient banks with an average cost to income ratio of 25.3 percent in 2017.
06/22/2018
Sybrin focuses on enabling business’s digital journey
06/22/2018
The Africa equity specialist talked about the changing narrative around the continent