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Ghana Said to Meet Investors Ahead of First Domestic Dollar Bond

ACCRA, Capital Markets in Africa: Ghana is meeting investors as the nation prepares to sell bonds for as much as $100 million in its first issuance of foreign-currency debt to domestic buyers, according to a person familiar with the matter. The country will offer the bonds at a rate of 5 percent to 7 percent, the person said, who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public. The bond will be issued in the…

National Bank Sees 10% of Profit From Global Business by 2020

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LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: National Bank of Canada seeks to generate at least 10 percent of profit from its international business by 2020, while looking to expand its stakes in Africa and Asia lenders into controlling positions, Chief Executive Officer Louis Vachon said. “We are looking to complement our Canadian growth — not substitute, but complement our Canadian growth — with a disciplined international strategy that delivers higher returns,” Vachon, 54, said Friday at the bank’s international…

Politicians in Africa’s Key Economies Aim at Central Banks

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LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: Central banks in Africa’s largest economies are under attack as politicians’ campaign to limit regulators’ jurisdictions and demand changes to policy implementation. In South Africa, senior officials from the ruling African National Congress said the Reserve Bank should help support the rand and that its authority to issue banking licenses must be revoked. President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, East Africa’s most advanced economy, signed a law capping commercial lending rates even as central…

South Africa’s Renewables Market Is the World’s Fastest Growing

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Johannesburg, Capital Markets in Africa: South Africa’s renewable industry is looking good for project financiers. The African country’s green power sector had the highest growth year-on-year globally for asset finance at 300 percent, according to Moody’s Corp. It drew $4.5 billion in 2015, the credit rating company said in a report on Friday. It highlighted a drop in renewable electricity prices, the growth of independent power producers and increased participation of institutional investors as credit positive…

Funding Nigerian oil cash calls from debt key for economy: minister

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LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: Nigeria must get out of paying so-called cash calls to joint ventures with oil and gas companies to stand a chance of pulling its ailing economy out of recession, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said on Friday. The minister said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had spent 110 billion naira ($360 million) on cash calls this month, which dwarfed the country’s 41 billion naira income from oil production over the…

S&P Downgrades Nigeria Further Into Junk as Oil Crisis Worsens

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LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: S&P Global Ratings downgraded Nigeria further into junk territory as Africa’s most populous nation struggles amid low oil prices and severe shortages of foreign-exchange. S&P lowered Nigeria’s rating one level to B, five levels below investment grade and in line with Kyrgyzstan and Angola. The outlook was changed from negative to stable. “Nigeria’s economy has weakened more than we expected owing to a marked contraction in oil production, a restrictive…

IMF says Mozambique president to cooperate on debt audit

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MAPUTO, Capital Markets in Africa: The president of Mozambique on Thursday pledged to work with the International Monetary Fund on the terms of an international audit of its public debt, the IMF said in a statement. President Filipe Nyusi met with IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde in Washington, where Nyusi visted to try to reassure international institutions and investors over a debt scandal involving more than $2 billion in secret loans that came to light…

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