04/03/2016
Although he is still based in London, three years ago Hersov cleared his slate to create Invest Africa and now spends his waking moments encouraging and assisting hundreds of foreign investors to move into Africa.
04/03/2016
Debt deal highlights the hazards for investors looking for yield in some of the world’s riskiest markets
04/02/2016
They live their lives far from the roving eyes of the public to make themselves relatively unknown.
04/01/2016
Alexandre Ricard’s smile didn’t waver as he entered a tavern in the South African township of Soweto and saw one of Pernod Ricard’s most popular whiskies shelved behind steel grates capped with iron shards.
04/01/2016
As a result, our basket of stocks, which is small in aggregate, tends to avoid direct commodity exposure and the exporters.
03/31/2016
Mauritius was ranked ahead of South Africa with a per capita wealth of 10,300 dollars, Namibia (10,200 dollars), Botswana (8,400 dollars) and Algeria (6,200 dollars).
03/31/2016
The number of people selling their homes in South Africa in order to emigrate, increased steadily in 2015, data published by FNB shows.
03/30/2016
An IMF-World Bank programme launched in 1996 has to date approved $76 billion (68 billion euros) in external debt relief for 36 of the world's heavily indebted poor nations, of which 30 are in Africa.
03/29/2016
Next week marks the culmination of one of the most challenging projects that our financial regulators have yet taken on: the official relaunch of African Bank as an independent, standalone entity.
03/29/2016
Governmental organizations will continue to maintain and promote a private cloud deployment due to regulatory requirements and a conscious decision to protect confidentiality and integrity of classified information.
03/28/2016
The sector has risen from a few hundred million dollars at the turn of the century to more than $4bn at the end of 2015.
03/23/2016
Wegagen Bank President Araya G. Egziabher looks at this dynamic sector and discusses how private banks will be catalysts in attracting foreign investment.
03/23/2016
The development financing role of multilateral development banks in emerging and developing countries is becoming more prominent and should be bolstered by the New Development Bank BRICS which officially opened its doors recently.
03/22/2016
Fidelity Commercial Bank has received Sh1.9 billion from Duet Private Equity for regional expansion and to shore up the bank’s core capital.
03/20/2016
Aiming to "survey the scientific underpinnings of measuring and understanding subjective well-being," the report, now in its fourth edition, uses six components to rank 157 countries by happiness levels.
03/18/2016
In the recent report Robo-Advisors: The Hype, the Reality and the Future, published on February 29th by Gartner, Chuck Thomas notes the difference between digitization and digitalization applied to Wealth Management services. Our vision on what the future
03/17/2016
Kenyans are paying more to access banking services, a new survey shows.
03/17/2016
This means that banks have become more willing to lend to businesses in October 2015 as compared to June 2015.
03/17/2016
North African countries such as Algeria, Egypt and Morocco all rank high on the list despite recent instability
03/16/2016
With the economy threatened with recession and inflation above the 3 percent to 6 percent target, economists and traders are divided on Thursday’s interest rate move.