9 Dec
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Pan Africa Asset Management (PAAM), an investment management arm of the Pan Africa Holdings Group, one of the largest and longest-established financial services groups in Kenya, has received approval by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) to register the Pan Africa Unit Trust Scheme as a collective investment scheme.
5 Dec
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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has successfully completed the second phase of the T+3 project, which will result in the local equities market moving from the current T+5 settlement cycle to a shorter, three day settlement cycle.
5 Dec
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Old Mutual Emerging Markets (OMEM) will be moving its Johannesburg Head Office from its existing property, Mutual Square on Grayston Drive, to a planned new building in the heart of Sandton.
23 Nov
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Castlepines Global Equity, an international equity fund that invests its own and partner equity in major infrastructure assets for secure, long-term yields, will be the leading investor in Tunisia Economic City.
22 Nov
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PIMCO has amended and restated its non-fundamental policy for ten closed-end funds with respect to investments in securities and instruments economically tied to emerging market countries including South Africa.
17 Nov
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EIIB-Rasmala, a London-listed asset management and financing group, has fully acquired Rasmala Egypt Asset Management S.A.E (REAM), increasing its shareholding from 51% to 100%.
14 Nov
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Africa has the opportunity to quadruple living standards by 2040, but to do so it will need to find $11.4trln in extra investment over that period, according to the Capital Economics’s report commissioned by Jersey Finance.
13 Nov
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Governments and companies in Africa are on course to continue the trend of growing debt issuance this year, according to Standard Bank. Standard Bank, Africa’s biggest lender by assets, tracked that companies on the continent have issued $4.35bn of corporate debt this year, while governments have issued $10.6bn.
10 Nov
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STANLIB, and its holding company, Liberty Holdings, have acquired 100% shareholding in Stanbic Investment Management Services (SIMS) Ghana.
22 Oct
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A sharp increase in lending to sub-Saharan African countries could leave many with crippling debts over the next decade, a new report by the Jubilee Debt Campaign has warned.
10 Oct
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In the wake of the recent rebasing of estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) by Ghana and Nigeria, Kenya is now the latest African country to rebase its national accounts data.
9 Oct
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Barclays Africa has expanded its exchange traded fund (ETF) offering in Mauritius with the listing of its eRAFI Overall SA Index ETF (eRAFI Overall SA ETF) on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM).
7 Oct
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African growth may exceed 5% in 2015-16, but Ebola, terrorism and other risks pose concern, according to the World Bank’s Africa Pulse analysis of the issues shaping economic prospects in the region.
30 Sep
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Regulation has impacted how each and every stakeholder in the financial services industry conducts business, most notably how one stakeholder interacts with another.
