08/23/2018
Getting value from sovereign wealth funds
Sovereign wealth funds have to fulfil certain national objectives, which depend on the country in question
Comment, Analysis & Research
08/20/2018
How much a funeral costs in South Africa
The rise of simple and quick insurance solutions
08/20/2018
DA to EFF: 'We will fight hostile takeover of SA Reserve Bank'
The EFF indicated that it wants the legislation to make provision for the SARB to have more capacity to provide prudential oversight over existing banks.
08/20/2018
UniBank Shareholders Berates Bank Of Ghana
The BoG on August 1, 2018, announced the revocation of universal banking licences of five banks and subsequently created the Consolidated Bank to take over selected assets and liabilities of the five institutions.
08/16/2018
How Technology Can Make South Africa A More Equal Country
Beyond this racial economic divide, young South Africans have been hit hard by current economic conditions, as more than one out of every three young South Africans were not in employment, education, or training in the first quarter of 2018.
08/16/2018
Nedbank: The quiet man of SA banking
CEO Mike Brown says there have been green shoots, notably in an increased market share in vehicle finance
08/16/2018
South Africa's Standard Bank H1 profit up 5 percent
Standard Bank has fared relatively better thanks to its extensive operations elsewhere on the continent
08/16/2018
Ghana's finance minister makes fresh statements on collapsed indigenous banks in the country
According to him, the amount being used to save the banking sector could easily have gone into direct government policies like maternal health care or free Senior High School which would have been of direct benefit to the populace.
08/15/2018
South Africa’s Ramaphosa proposes new sovereign wealth fund: party officials
South Africa does not have significant energy deposits but has a large, albeit struggling, mining industry.
08/14/2018
S. African ruling party denies making plan to rescue troubled bank
A meeting had been held between the ANC's Top Six officials and the party's Limpopo leadership to discuss possible ways to save the troubled bank, the report said.
08/13/2018
African Regulators Taking ‘Wait-and-See’ Approach on Cryptocurrency: Ecobank Report
The other 15 countries lay somewhere in the middle, largely declining to regulate them directly, stating that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fall under a legal gray area and warning investors against investing in them.
08/13/2018
How green is Africa’s future in reality?
Africa remains a continent subject to resource demands and even more so for a suite of new technologies
08/12/2018
China’s growing footprint in Africa
China’s President Xi Jinping appears to have made Africa one of the top priorities of his foreign policy.
08/12/2018
Governments Around The World Must Rethink Their Structure In The Face of Disruption
Rising Citizen Expectations, Rapid Technological Change, and Increasing Complexity Are Putting Major Pressure on Government—and Making the Traditional Hierarchical Public-Sector Structure Dangerously Outdated
08/10/2018
Impact investing – not just a feel-good story by Jacolene Otto
In essence, impact investing is powered by investors wanting to effect positive and sustainable change in developing societies and their environment.
08/10/2018
Nigeria: Islamic Finance In Nigeria: An Overview Of The Rules Governing The Listing Of Sukuk On The Nigerian
The question arises as to how Islamic finance institutions expect to make profit from non-interest bearing financing.
08/09/2018
Mauritius – an evolving FinTech hub by Graham Patrick and Miro Metodiev
In recent years, Mauritius has gained a growing global reputation as the preferred gateway for investment into (and out of) Africa.
08/09/2018
HSBC: Earth is running out of the resources to sustain life
A group of analysts at HSBC said in a note that cited research from the Global Footprint Network (GFN) that the world spent its entire natural resource budget for the year by August 1
08/08/2018
Mike Schussler warns SA about impact of confiscation
Schussler said businessmen and investors, including foreign investors, did not know what was meant by it and South Africa was putting up another barrier to investors when it should be bringing down these barriers.
08/07/2018
Nigeria lags in retail banking as only 2% can access credit facilities
Experts also advise that Nigeria adapts new global trends in credit scoring and to embrace the mandatory IFRS 9 reporting system in order to grow its retail banking market to be on par with other nations.