11/10/2020
The emergency lending, which is regarded as the direct creation of cash by the CBK, is ideally meant to be restricted to a maximum of five per cent of the most recently audited revenues and repaid by the end of the fiscal year.
11/10/2020
The ratio of impairment charges to pre-impairment operating profit rose to 62.9% for our sample of major banks in aggregate, from 29.9% in 2019.
11/10/2020
How should fund managers be incorporating ESG considerations into their portfolios?
11/10/2020
He stresses that investing in African countries carries risks, but these were too often exaggerated.
11/10/2020
Africa’s biggest CO2 emitter and one of the world’s top-ten coal producers had pledged to reduce emissions by more than one third by this year under the Copenhagen Accord by retiring numerous coal plants and intensifying renewable energy inves
11/09/2020
Financial emigration should not be confused with emigration and it is important to understand the difference at the outset.
11/09/2020
Digital match-making forums also allow African exporters to participate in the activities of the import-led trade show without having to be there physically.
11/09/2020
Fund managers’ exposure to investment vehicles in the real sector was extremely low due to the high level of risk involved, according to Yusuf.
11/09/2020
Development Partners International (DPI), a pan-African private equity firm with USD1.7 billion in assets under management, has elected three new professionals to its Partnership.
11/06/2020
Resurgent South Africa joins Saudi Arabia on road to economic reform
Saudi Arabia seen as potential investor in Pretoria’s $100 billion investment recovery plan
11/06/2020
KCB upbeat National Bank to yield billions by December
So this year we expect NBK will cross Sh1 billion in profits which is a very strong contribution,” Mr Oigara told the Business Daily.
11/06/2020
Making a case for offshore investing
A diversified portfolio contains a mix of distinct asset types in an attempt at limiting exposure to any single asset or country/region.
11/06/2020
NASIRA fund backs Sasfin
South Africa was already suffering from high unemployment and power cuts, and now the corona lockdown hit the economy even harder than many analysts were expecting.
11/06/2020
The figure of loans on life policies has also gone up in the last three months and I think this is expected as a way of making ends meet.
11/06/2020
Jersey Finance has launched a new report exploring the emerging trends for fund domiciliation and capital raising, particularly as a route for private equity impact investing into the wider African continent.
11/06/2020
Raichura urged pension funds to play their rightful role in developing the country.
11/06/2020
The platform will facilitate this more easily and efficiently, utilising Globacap’s private placement technology which automates the world’s private capital markets.
11/06/2020
Fintech continues to attract more investment and interest of new disruptive business models, from how we consume financial services to how we invest.
11/05/2020
This is the 2nd renewable energy project supported by ATI’s Regional Liquidity Support Facility (RLSF), designed to cover the late-payment risks of publicly owned power utilities
11/05/2020
Contrary to the dominant discourse, it is actually the case that the 54 African states finance developed countries and not the other way round.