06/19/2015
A credit boom in sub-Saharan Africa that has fuelled an expansion in infrastructure projects across the region is fading out as higher borrowing costs threaten a pipeline of new deals.
06/19/2015
Opportunities to invest in Africa and the role that International Finance Centres can play in facilitating growth in the continent will form the focus of an event to be held by Jersey Finance in London next week.
06/18/2015
The Bank of Namibia just put out a great explainer on monetary policy.
06/18/2015
Stanbic IBTC would be among the first banks to publish such a list after the regulator ordered lenders in April to crack down on non-performing loans to forestall a repeat of a 2009 industry bailout that cost the government $4 billion.
06/17/2015
My Approach Njoroge has been nominated as the ninth governor of the Central Bank of Kenya.
06/15/2015
Banks being investigated for currency collusion remain tight-lipped about the effect of the probe and whether they knowingly allowed the practice in the first place
06/15/2015
Leap Africa, Lafarge Africa and Sterling Bank have tasked start-ups, micro, small and medium enterprises to mitigate and skilfully manage risks to maximise profits and sustain growth.
06/12/2015
Kenya’s government increased minimum capital requirements for the East African nation’s banks by fivefold to promote competition
06/12/2015
It’s back to the good old U.S. dollar for the troubled African nation
06/08/2015
The Association of Kenya Insurers (AKI), grouping 44 insurance companies, pledged to increase the value of the pensions industry from 7.8 billion U.S. dollars
06/08/2015
Because of the sensitivity of money and its central role in any economy, financial business is heavily regulated in every country
06/05/2015
Rwanda’s competitiveness and ease-of-doing-business rankings had risen as a result
06/04/2015
Speaking yesterday at a session on financial inclusion, Okonjo Iweala strongly believed that deepening financial inclusion lies on tackling the regulatory arbitrage
06/03/2015
South Africa’s antitrust regulator last month announced the probe into some of the world’s biggest banks
06/02/2015
Although this is seen as a very arduous task, the exchange has made significant progress in the journey towards realizing that ambition.
06/01/2015
The recent recognition of nine corporate organisations at the Corporate Affairs Commission’s Corporate Citizens Award will engender healthy competition among registered companies in Nigeria
05/29/2015
Supervision practices are in the spotlight at the regulator, after the fall of African Bank.
05/27/2015
Some shareholders on Monday said the huge levies paid by commercial banks to the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria had stifled the banks’ ability to lend.
05/27/2015
African Bank failed amid record losses and a lack of funding
05/27/2015
An investigation by South Africa’s anti-trust regulator into alleged foreign currency manipulation involving the rand may stem from a whistle blower or “a confession”