07/06/2017
Standard Bank’s Kenny Fihla
Parastatals are crucial to SA’s development and will continue to receive backing as long as they are solid and well run.
Investment Banking
07/03/2017
Mega project financing in Africa still a major challenge
A shortage of available people who possess needed technical skills.
07/03/2017
Intra-Africa trade receives financial boost
The MoU provides for collaboration between Afreximbank and Dangote Industries in respect to proposed funding of transactions.
07/03/2017
West Africa’s Green Investment platform launched
The meeting was aimed at promoting private sector finance and investment opportunities in the energy sector in the West Africa region.
07/03/2017
The biggest loser in the first half was… Goldman Sachs
Analysis of investment banking revenues in Emea makes for uncomfortable reading for the residents of Peterborough Court
06/29/2017
Standard bank launched Africa China Banking centre
He said their primary communication platform will be WeChat because Chinese people are quite addicted to it.
06/28/2017
Moroccan Bank Expresses Interest in Bank of Kigali
We do not have a time line, they have only expressed interest.
06/27/2017
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Is No. 1 on Institutional Investor's EMEA Research Team Ranking of the Region's Best-Sell Side Analysts
Nine firms tie for 14th place - five of which are new to the Leader board this year.
06/27/2017
Capitec ranked as the best bank in the world
The group stressed that it does not only look at financials and ratios.
06/27/2017
AfDB Calls On Credit Providers to Increase Lending to Meet Demand By African Msmes
The entrepreneurial culture is vibrant with about 80% of Africans viewing entrepreneurship as a good career opportunity.
06/26/2017
Afreximbank raises $750m in euro note for Nigeria, other borrowers
In the end, 39 per cent of the allocation went to continental Europe, 28 per cent to the United Kingdom, 19 per cent to Asia, and 7 per cent each to the Middle East and Africa and the United States offshore.
06/17/2017
Standard Bank predicts uptick in economic growth in latest African Markets Revealed report
Standard Bank doubts that a resurgence of commodity prices will prove to be a palliative for commodity-producing countries on the continent.
06/15/2017
IFC in talks to attract new infrastructure investment in Burkina Faso
Talks aimed at attracting investors to support a range of potential infrastructure projects in Burkina Faso have been held between the country’s government and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC).
06/15/2017
Government appoints Fidelity and Standard Chartered Bank as lead Managers
The ESLA SPV is expected to issue bond(s) to the tune of about GH¢10 billion, being the total estimated legacy debt within the energy sector.
06/14/2017
StanChart shores up lending to Southern African DFIs
The facility will be utilised for onlending to support investment in key infrastructure and development projects on the continent.
06/12/2017
Afreximbank signs deal with Development Bank of Belarus to boost Africa-Belarus trade ties
They are needed to boost mutual trade between our countries.
06/08/2017
Absa won’t become a state bank
Absa becomes SA-controlled business for first time since 2004, but Barclays Plc and PIC will remain long-term investors
06/07/2017
Let’s push electronic payment agenda higher
What is required is a holistic and joint effort of all stakeholders to shift behaviours towards electronic payment options.
06/05/2017
Afreximbank seals $1.2b dual currency deals
Targets more regional trade, financing
06/02/2017
AfDB seeks to strengthen Indo-African relations
“I want Africa, already a place brimming with opportunity, to win its own place in the world’s workshops and marketplaces — to become a global industrial powerhouse,” Adesina said.