Africa

Africa’s Tethered Trade Finance Hub

The African Development Bank after approving a $1 billion export credit support program completed a 45-country survey of 275 banks ...

Africa’s Energetic Pocket Protectors

As Sub-Saharan capital markets continue to correct, slashing year-end MSCI frontier index improvement to single digits, the IIF issued an ...

Africa’s Unhealthy Commodity Command

Sub-Saharan stock markets continued to reel amid Ebola, raw material price and political scares as Nigeria in particular was off ...

South Africa’s Trapped Power Pursuit

South African shares were flat as new finance ministry and central bank heads came on board and indicated harsher fiscal ...

Africa’s Oil Fire Singe

African securities were pounded by a combination of commodity price and global financial market jitters as oil fell toward $80/barrel ...

Ghana’s Grating Imbalance Impertinence

Ghana sold a third long delayed $1 billion Eurobond at an 8.25 percent yield in contrast with Kenya’s and Cote ...

South Africa’s Hobbled Ability Abstention

South African banking shares were slammed despite overall MSCI index advance as unsecured consumer lender Abil was saved by a ...

West Africa’s Ebola Spike Span

West African low-income economies at the origin of the epic Ebola virus outbreak claiming already over 1000 lives with its ...

Africa’s Summit Weary Waver

The US joined Europe, China and Japan in hosting a bilateral government and business leader summit designed to deepen trade, ...

Africa’s Pinched Pension Fund Alternatives

A joint study by the EMPEA private equity trade association and the UK Commonwealth’s Africa finance initiative surveys pension fund ...

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