11/18/2021
Fonsis is an interesting sovereign wealth fund, operating a fund-of-funds model to help the country’s SME development while generating an industry around the management of private capital.
11/17/2021
The financing will support Absa's commitment to increase the accessibility of trade finance, with around 80 percent of financing expected to go to low income and fragile countries.
11/17/2021
In mainland Tanzania, growth in the second quarter of 2021 was 4.3%, compared to 4.0% in the second quarter of 2020.
11/16/2021
The Fund’s Head Office will be based in Kigali and domiciled in the Kigali International Financial Centre (KIFC), which offers a safe
11/14/2021
An investigation into the project already taking shape shows that the new institution – which will have a footprint on local and regional markets – will involve serious financial engineering and megabucks.
11/12/2021
“The October PMI™ survey data indicated a strengthening of business conditions across the Mozambican economy,” the bank’s analysis reads.
11/09/2021
The fintech, which refers to itself as a banking-as-a-service platform, says it uses AI to power financial services
11/09/2021
Africa is a large and underexploited market.
11/08/2021
This is misleading and a great disservice to the retirees. The investment environment is dynamic, highly unpredictable, except the skills acquired over time in funds management.
11/08/2021
JSE-led virtual conference sees keen interest in Eskom’s unbundling and SA’s fifth bid window for independent power producers
11/08/2021
Expatiating, the Muslim Finance Coach observed that in the even Nigeria has reaped bountifully from the benefits of Islamic finance.
11/05/2021
We view higher inflation as persisting into Q1 2022.
11/04/2021
COO Jan Oberholzer says Eskom needs R11bn a year for maintenance, but only R6bn is available
11/04/2021
Blue Quadrant Capital Management’s Worldwide Flexible Prescient Fund has returned 125% this year, the most of any South African fund of at least R100 million
11/03/2021
While the exact details of the partnership have been kept under wraps, Uncommon.org has said that securing Nedbank’s sponsorship is a major milestone ‘in our non-profit’s path to sustainability.’
11/02/2021
Commodity exporters such as Tanzania have been slightly resilient during the pandemic due to export price increases in commodities, particularly gold.
11/02/2021
Mahamar noted that active collaboration between the public and private sectors across Africa was critical to shared prosperity.
11/02/2021
South Africa has an advantage if it can move fast to lock-in progress on the energy transition, Old Mutual Alternative Investments CEO Paul Boynton has said.
10/29/2021
“At the same time political pressures led to the imposition of regulatory restrictions on interest rate increases, imposition of fees and other actions that would ordinarily be available to defend liquidity and capital, if not profitability,”
10/29/2021
Covid is one reason, but South Africans are also becoming aware of the potential hazards of poor estate planning in passing on wealth to the next generation.