Managers of Wealth Africa

SA's long road to smart cities

Bureaucracy, a lack of public-private union and a skills deficiency are holding back SA from realising smart city objectives

Leisure property growth takes a knock

Although it courts the interest of ultra-high net worth individuals.

US$120 bn trade finance gap holding back African growth

Trade finance has a direct impact on employment and Madhavan

LACK of access to affordable trade finance is holding back the economic and employment potential of African countrie

"Imagine the number of jobs that would be created if small and medium enterprises in Africa could do the cross-border transactions that would have been supported by the unmet gap in demand for trade finance.

Investment firms backing retail developments in East Africa

East Africa’s shopping landscape is slowly changing with the construction of multi-million dollar centres in prominent cities.

Moody warns to downgrade S. Africa's rating to junk level

Rising consumer inflation and a probable increase in U.S. policy rates could lead the South African Reserve Bank to hike domestic rates by yearend

Check out the cities on the continent where you find super millionaires

With an emerging class of millionaires coming out of African cities such as Victoria Island, Dar Es Salaam, and Accra, there is little need for luxury living to be a strictly a foreign lifestyle.

Banks all set to woo more customers to digital banking

We are far from being able to put digital migration at the bottom of the priority list.

Iran, S. Africa to boost bilateral cooperation ties

During the meeting, the two sides exchanged points of view on a number of regional and international issues and discussed ways to bolster bilateral relations

Pension funds in Kenya reap big from equities

The average equity return for all schemes over the year to March 2015 was 23.7 per cent

Banking salaries in South Africa

South African banking CEOs – some of the highest earners in the country – are taking home between 40 and 80 times more than their average employees

Ethiopia’s long-serving minister brings recipe of success to AfDB

For much of the past two decades, Sufian Ahmed’s attention has been focused on rebuilding Ethiopia’s economy after years of war and famine, eventually helping turn it into one of the fastest-growing in Africa

WINE: Great wines come from imbibing lessons of the past

The annual old wine tasting — the curtain-raiser to the Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show — was held in Paarl a few days ago

'Businesses in emerging markets must digitise or die'

Research by SAP partner Ernst & Young suggests that five percent of the revenue of any company today is lost as a result of fraud

Super-premium beer market to grow 30% this year and 35% in 2016

According to Standard Bank Group, the market could make up as much as 18m litres by 2017 to give it a 2.1% share of the total premium and lite market - from just 0.3% in 2011.

More regional money flowing into inward M&As, says EY

Inbound deal value increases five-fold; family businesses are shifting their interest away from emerging market entries

UK contributes $9.3 million to IMF statistics in Africa and the Middle East

The International Monetary Fund and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development have launched a new project

Kenya's KCB group says sees more growth from diversified services

Kenya Commercial Bank Group expects growth in services like insurance, Islamic banking and mobile money transfer services to further boost its income, after posting a 12 percent rise in first quarter pretax profit

African Banker Awards Nominees Announced

Nominees for the 2015 African Banker Awards have been announced

The biggest companies in South Africa

Only four SA companies made it into the top 500

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