04/22/2021
New report highlights COVID-19 impact on African trade finance
These massive capital outflows strained African banks, many of which recorded sharp drops in their net foreign assets.
Comment, Analysis & Research
04/21/2021
Cash-strapped Africa overwhelmed by COVID vaccine challenge
The problems faced by Ghana, one of sub-Saharan Africa's more economically developed nations, illustrate how a continent with experience in battling deadly infectious diseases has found itself ill-prepared to inoculate people against this pandemic.
04/21/2021
Report: Africa Recorded $5bn Capital Flight in Q1 2020
The President of the Afreximbank, Professor Benedict Oramah, attributed the capital flight to the tightening of global financial conditions.
04/16/2021
How innovation is pushing Nigeria’s financial inclusion drive [Opinion]
If the traditional banks could achieve this alone, we will have a rather insignificant exclusion percentage by now.
04/15/2021
Is Africa heading for a crisis?
The G20’s debt service suspension initiative missed a trick when it excluded Chinese and private creditors.
04/14/2021
CFOs in Global Survey Reveal Pandemic Has Fundamentally Altered How They Hire and Manage Their Workforce
Sixty-five percent of Asia-Pacific respondents indicated that they expect to exceed goals and expectations for 2021, compared to 46% for UK and 47% for North America
04/13/2021
7% growth in global reinsurance capital, with signs of underlying combined ratio improvement: Willis Re
Willis Re’s Reinsurance Market Report tracks the capital and profitability of the global reinsurance industry.
04/09/2021
South African and Kenyan banks may beat Nigeria to post-Covid recovery
African banks that have raised their loan-loss provisions to reflect the impact of Covid-19 may be best placed for a quick recovery once the worst of the pandemic is over, analysts say.
04/08/2021
Highest paid Nigerian bank MD/CEOs of 2020
Bank MD/CEOs in Nigeria earned a combined N1.5 trillion in salaries in 2020.
04/07/2021
Richest Black Women in the World 2021
Despite these barriers to wealth, these women have gone on to achieve enormous wealth.
04/05/2021
Financial emigration the cleanest route out of South Africa: tax expert
The exchange control process created an additional set of administrative challenges with financial institutions
03/31/2021
Strengthening resilience is the key to success in 2021, says PwC's Global Crisis Survey
According to survey respondents, for 2021, the outlook is positive: In PwC's 24th Annual Global CEO Survey, published earlier this month, a record-high 76 percent of CEOs believe global economic growth will improve in 2021.
03/28/2021
More South Africans are moving to the UK for work
The findings indicate a broad reshaping of the UK workforce that could have implications for the potential of an economic recovery.
03/25/2021
COVID-19 shakes up the emerging consumer landscape while the vaccine news boosts optimism
Almost a fifth of them reported income declines of over 20%.
03/22/2021
Key African Central Banks Aren’t Rushing to Raise Interest Rates
However, the risks to the recovery of most economies in the region after the worst slump in half a century last year, remain elevated.
03/22/2021
2021 predictions: realising the value of payments transformation
A 2019 survey by Aite Group found that only 18% of banks were moving from a transaction-based revenue model to a data-based approach.
03/22/2021
What 23,000 South African investors can teach us about behavioural bias
“Volatility refers to those times when the market is very uncertain and the value of investments tend to go up and down,”
03/22/2021
More South Africans are leaving for Canada
Despite the global pandemic, the government of Canada is on track to meet this target, he said.
03/22/2021
Survival of the Fittest, a business perspective – COVID-19
Sonya Mohadeb, Director at C&S Secretarial, explains how good corporate governance, compliance and financial status will ensure your survival as a business whilst sailing through the COVID-19 storm.
03/19/2021
Why NPLs Will Increase For Nigerian, EMEA Banks In 2021
“We view the risk of asset quality deterioration as most significant in Nigeria and also material in Turkey, Georgia, Hungary, South Africa, the UAE and Qatar.