09/09/2013
Cass Business School’s Dubai Centre, part of City University London, this week hosted the annual meeting of high profile South African banking executives at the Dubai International Finance Centre
09/09/2013
The dollar remains the major trade currency in Africa, but a shift to other currencies such as the Chinese renminbi and Brazilian real is likely as regional groups and central banks push for more local currency transaction settlements.
09/09/2013
While South Africa remains the most attractive corporate investment destination in Africa.
09/08/2013
Africa is fast becoming an attractive place to do business – even more so as the vast informal trade sector on the continent means that measured growth over the past decade is likely to have been understated.
09/05/2013
O'Neill, a former chairman at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, rose to fame after proclaiming in 2001 that Brazil, Russia, India and China were emerging investment magnets that would drive global markets for a decade.
09/05/2013
The Old Mutual retirement monitor for 2013 is a useful dipstick to see how well the public is prepared for retirement.
09/04/2013
The NDP is a policy framework aimed at reducing the high unemployment rate and addressing poverty in SA.
09/04/2013
Only the world’s richest countries will be represented at the G20 summit this week in St. Petersburg, Russia, but the gathering could still have profound implications for some of the poorest nations on earth.
08/26/2013
National Bank of Abu Dhabi has been named the safest bank in the Middle East by Global Finance, a leading finance publication, which ranked the Abu Dhabi-based lender 35th safest in the world.
08/26/2013
A new crop of African entrepreneurs are emerging who have ambitions beyond the continent.
08/23/2013
Situated in sub-Saharan Africa, Botswana sits landlocked with Namibia to its north and west, a 1,850-kilometre border with South Africa due south and Zimbabwe to the east.
08/21/2013
The competitors of tomorrow will not be large scale banks, they will concentrate on the single aspects of retail bankin
08/18/2013
Kenya is already a growing gateway for foreign investment into east Africa and now aims to become an international banking and financial hub.
08/14/2013
CEOs and other senior executives are increasingly engaged as their companies step up efforts to build digital enterprises.
08/13/2013
Africa’s youngest billionaire, Ashish Thakkar, said in Abuja that Nigeria remained a land of opportunities for investors despite negative stories about it.
08/12/2013
It also was responsible for the inability of West African states to create a regional bank
08/12/2013
While global growth expectations have risen very rapidly, the good news is that cash levels remain high
08/11/2013
Emerging market shares have underperformed the global average in each of the past three years
08/07/2013
One of the main reasons it has been difficult for them to co-operate is simply that they aren't much alike.
08/07/2013
South Africa’s tepid growth rate places it among Africa’s 10 slowest-growing economies this year, in the company of laggards such as Sudan, Equatorial Guinea and Madagascar, a key report shows.