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MTN Hires Citi, Standard Bank for South African Towers Deal

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) — MTN Group Ltd. appointed Citigroup Inc. and Standard Bank Group Ltd. to advise on a sale and lease back of some of the carrier’s South African telecom towers, according to people familiar with the matter. Africa’s largest mobile-phone company by sales is looking to raise between 5 billion rand ($333 million) and 10 billion rand from the deal, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the…

Ford to Spend $1 Billion in Biggest South Africa Investment

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) — Ford Motor Co. will plow $1.05 billion into a plant in South Africa — its biggest-ever investment in the country — as the carmaker scales back in other regions including Brazil and Europe. The upgrades to the Silverton plant near the capital, Pretoria, will boost the site’s annual capacity by almost a fifth to 200,000 units and create about 1,200 direct jobs, the company said in a statement on…

London Bankers Face Location Limbo as ECB Targets Brexit Moves

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) — Young bankers waiting to learn when or whether they might be relocated to the European Union can take some solace from the fact that oftentimes, their bosses also don’t know their own fate. A senior banker hired to work in London last year was asked just weeks later to pack his bags and move to Europe. Some trading managers at one U.S. bank still don’t know whether they’ll be…

BOE Likely to Embrace Negative Interest Without Using Them

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ACCRA (Capital Markets in Africa) — The Bank of England is preparing to take a significant step into the debate on whether negative interest rates should be used to stimulate the coronavirus-stricken U.K. economy. The central bank this week is due to publish the results of 160 detailed responses to a consultation about how borrowing costs could be pushed below zero for the first time since it was founded in 1694. The controversial policy, already…

Biden to Focus on Trade Enforcement After Years of Trump Tariffs

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NEW YORK (Capital Markets in Africa) — President Joe Biden’s administration is setting up its trade policy to prioritize enforcement of existing commitments by the U.S.’s partners over negotiating more deals to open new export markets. Biden’s likely strategy for supporting American producers focuses on going after violations via dialogue, work with allies and use of dispute-resolution mechanisms in existing trade agreements rather than following the Trump administration’s more blunt unilateral tool of national-security tariffs,…

ESG Risks Top the List of Near-Term Concerns for Bank Executives

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) — Risks related to climate change and social issues will intensify the most in the next two years, finance executives predicted in a survey, and firms will have to find ways to cope. Environmental, social and governance issues topped the list of risk managers’ concerns in a Deloitte poll to be released on Monday, followed by cybersecurity and credit matters. More than half of the 57 firms surveyed were banks…

AMC Leads Gains in Reddit Favorites as Focus Shifts to Silver

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) — AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and some other Redditor favorites extended January’s advance on Monday, while GameStop Corp.’srally paused, as brokerages removed trading restrictions from all but the most volatile stocks. AMC rose 19% to $15.83 in premarket trading, while GameStop erased earlier gains and was little changed at $323 as of 8:10 a.m. in New York. The video-game retailer surged 1,625% last month, propelled by day traders using Reddit…

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