11/11/2013
World Bank Group launches New Country Partnership Strategy for South Africa
The World Bank Group today launched a new Country Partnership Strategy for South Africa that will guide the Group’s proposed support to the country over the next three years, until 2017.
11/10/2013
AFTER 10 years in the industry, on of the country's most respected value investors, RE:CM, has been repositioning itself for growth. Business Times sat down with the CEO, Jan van Niekerk, appointed in April, to discuss his role.
11/10/2013
Nigerian banks have been discovered to have the highest cost base amongst their peers.
11/09/2013
Emerging from the wilderness and in a desperate attempt to be embraced by the international community
11/09/2013
Women are the backbone of most African economies and policy makers are starting to consider the unique role they play in society.
11/08/2013
African Development Bank Group - The President of the African Development Bank Group, Donald Kaberuka, has been named the 2013 African of the Year,
11/07/2013
President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party claimed a resounding victory in the polls
11/06/2013
A fifth of the largest global banks coud be broken up or bought within the next few years
11/06/2013
Porsche Middle East and Africa FZE, a subsidiary of Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has announced plans to expand its presence across the region, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
11/05/2013
The global economic crisis has had a profound impact on people’s well-being, reaching far beyond the loss of jobs and income, and affecting citizens’ satisfaction with their lives and their trust in governments, according to a new OECD report.
11/04/2013
In the first part of my retrospection of the collapse of the American investment bank, Lehman Brothers, in September 2008 and the ensuing financial crisis in the North-Atlantic countries, I focused on the crisis countries.
11/04/2013
The difficult operating environment in Nigeria's banking industry has reflected in the books of the banks, according to the nine months report on the financial returns of ten banks released for the third quarter of the year.
10/29/2013
The top spots for making friends, getting rich and raising kids
Thailand leads the way when it comes to quality of life and a good social scene, while Switzerland is top for making money and Germany for raising children
10/28/2013
The Bank of Ghana has inaugurated an association of Chartered bankers
The Bank of Ghana has inaugurated an association of Chartered bankers.
10/28/2013
Ghana emerged number one destination in ease of doing business among countries in the ECOWAS region
10/27/2013
Emerging market equities have been suffering from investors’ ‘sell-off’ mindset for several months.
10/27/2013
A statement issued by the bank on Saturday said the monies will allow the Fund to provide access to finance and capacity building to an underserved market of outward-looking small and medium enterprises and mid-market African firms
10/23/2013
An ugly and somewhat unsavoury expression of obscure origins, in the software business, “eating your own dog food” means using software you have developed yourself.
10/23/2013
A report by one of the world’s biggest four auditors KPMG, has revealed that five Angolan banks including the country’s apex bank – Central Bank of Angola – account for an estimated 78 percent of the total asset of the local bankin
10/20/2013
Marc Faber, The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, shares his views on how inflation has impacted global wealth.