12 Nov
News > Asset Servicing
Standard Bank Group, Africa’s largest financial institution by assets, has launched a Representative Office in Egypt to strengthen trade and investment flows between Egypt, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East, recognising Egypt’s role as a vital gateway in Africa's north-south trade corridor.
29 Oct
News > Asset Servicing
Verdant IMAP has acted as sole financial advisor and arranger to Ctrack Holding on the successful closing of a $23.4m (ZAR 406m) equity raise for Ctrack Holdings.
24 Oct
News > Asset Servicing
Marex has launched EMEA Emerging Markets (EM) Credit desk, offering a hybrid model that combines agency execution with selective principal risk-taking abilities to better serve institutional clients across sovereign and corporate debt.
22 Oct
News > Asset Servicing
ISI Markets, a global market intelligence provider, has launched REDD for Sovereign Debt.
13 Oct
News > Asset Servicing
Africa Merchant Capital Advisory (AMCA) has acted as financial adviser to the Lagata Group on its acquisition of majority stake, and investment into, Miro Forestry Developments, a sustainable forestry and plywood manufacturing business operating across Sierra Leone and Ghana.
2 Oct
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With the Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) industry reaching record highs worldwide, Prescient Fund Services, a global full-suite fund services firm, has released a special ETF Evolution Report, offering an overview of the current state and future potential of the South African ETF market.
1 Oct
News > Asset Servicing
Apex Group, a global financial services provider, has launched WealthTech platform, an AI-powered platform designed to unlock access to private markets for retail investors.
11 Aug
News > Asset Servicing
Afriwise, Africa’s fastest-growing legal-intelligence platform, has acquired LawExplorer, South Africa’s most established provider of regulatory monitoring and analysis tools.
“This is not just an acquisition. It’s a strategic leap forward for how companies in Africa manage regulatory change,” said Steven De Backer, CEO and Founder of Afriwise.
1 Aug
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Charles Russell Speechlys has advised Miro Forestry Developments, a UK headquartered sustainable forestry and plywood manufacturer, operating from locations across West Africa, on its latest fundraising round.
27 May
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EFG Hermes, an EFG Holding company and the leading investment bank in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has announced that its investment banking division has successfully closed the issuance of a senior unsecured short-term note for the Hermes Securities Brokerage Company (HSB), a wholly owned subsidiary of EFG Holding, in an EGP 900m transaction.
24 Apr
News > Asset Servicing
Verdant IMAP has successfully closed a $18m senior secured debt funding for Zeepay Ghana.
10 Feb
News > Asset Servicing
Droit-Afrique, a legal publisher specializing in Francophone Africa, has entered into a strategic licensing and publishing partnership with Afriwise, a provider of digital legal intelligence solutions for Africa.
8 Jan
News > Asset Servicing
Bowmans has welcomed most of the former members of A&O Shearman South Africa (AOS) to its Cape Town and Johannesburg offices.
10 Sep
News > Asset Servicing
Charles Russell Speechlys has advised Mirova, which aims to provide debt support to SMEs that generate and provide clean energy, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, on its $20 million debt funding to ManoCap Energy, a West Africa renewable energy specialist.
