Africa suffers from a severe deficit in infrastructure, Standard Bank Group Chief Executive, Sim Tshabalala, has said.
African governments, investors, and international financial institutions must significantly scale up investment in energy to unlock Africa’s potential as a global low-carbon superpower, according to a new Kofi Annan’s report.
Despite the challenging economic conditions facing the South African small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, the appetite for finance and growth amongst these businesses still seems to be healthy and robust, Nazeem Martin, Managing Director of BUSINESS/PARTNERS, has said.
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has announced that MMI Holdings, a South African based financial services group, will now be included, for the first time since listing in December 2010, in the JSE Top 40 Index.
Kagiso Tiso Holdings Proprietary (KTH) has realised the value of its investment in Emira Property Fund through a significantly oversubscribed accelerated offering of all of KTH’s 29,316,187 participatory interests (PIs) in Emira, representing 5.74% of its PIs in issue.
The investment management industry can use their own data to design, manufacture and market solutions more effectively with a view to generating outcomes that are more aligned to investor expectations, according to Daron Pearce, Global Investment Manager Segment Head for Investment Services at BNY Mellon.
Mergence Investment Managers has recently provided financing to Project Isizwe to accelerate the roll-out of a free WiFi project supported by the Tshwane Municipality, which could set the pattern for social impact bonds in South Africa.
While Sino-African ties have been a boon in many ways for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the region's vulnerabilities to China have also increased, according to S&P;’s report.
Chase Bank Kenya has launched its Kes.10bn medium term multi currency note programme to strengthen its capital base and support its strategic initiatives.
The Tripartite Free Trade Area, a single free trade area across 26 nations in Africa, will promote active trade between South Africa and the rest of the continent, according to Jonathan Horn, MD of Maersk Line Southern Africa.
Nigeria is a unique sweet spot for investors right now, Will Tindall, co-founder of Emerging Crowd, has said.
South Africa’s stock market is acquiring greater depth and breadth as flourishing sectors such as retail, tourism and financial services attract a new wave of investment, according to members of the Group of Boutique Asset Managers (GBAM).
South African institutions are, on average, lacking significant commitment to alternative assets and private equity investments, with many funds having no exposure at all, according to Paul Boynton, CEO of Old Mutual Alternative Investments.
The Kenya capital markets are gearing up for the launch of the derivatives trading at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) scheduled to start at the end of June 2015.
