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Private Equity | Synergy Capital invests in Suburban Fiber, Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — Synergy Capital Managers (Synergy) has announced the completion of its investment in Suburban Fiber Company Limited (Suburban), a Next Generation Broadband company focused on delivering home content solutions to retail end customers in Abuja and Lagos. This is the sixth investment from the Synergy Private Equity Fund I (SPEF). Suburban operates an Internet Protocol (IP) Next Generation Network (NGN) which, at its core, takes advantage of the technology…

Egypt Set to Name Ex-Banker as Finance Chief, State Media Says

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CAIRO, Egypt, Capital Markets in Africa — Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is set to appoint former investment banker Amr El-Garhy as finance minister as part of a partial cabinet change on Wednesday, the state-run Al-Akhbar newspaper reported. El-Garhy, a former executive at investment bank EFG-Hermes, will replace Hany Kadry Dimian, the newspaper reported, without saying how it obtained the information. El-Garhy is currently a board member of the Cairo-based investment firm Qalaa Holdings. His possible appointment was also reported…

Egypt Approaches JPMorgan, FGB as Bank Markets Local Debt

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CAIRO, Egypt, Capital Markets in Africa — National Bank of Egypt officials met with banks in the United Arab Emirates, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., as the North Africa nation seeks to attract foreign investors to its local-currency debt market after the biggest one-time devaluation of the pound since 2003 last week. Senior executives, including the bank’s treasurer, also met with First Gulf Bank and other investors to “explain” and market its product for hedging foreign-exchange risk aimed…

Zimbabwe orders foreign firms to Sell Shares to Black by April 1

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Harare, Zimbabwe, Capital Markets in Africa — Zimbabwe will shut down foreign-owned companies on April 1 if they don’t comply with a law that requires them to sell or cede 51 percent of their shares to black Zimbabweans, Indigenization Minister Patrick Zhuwao said. The Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act was passed in 2010 under President Robert Mugabe’s black empowerment drive but implementation has been slow. “Comply by that date or close shop, comply by that date…

Finance | IFC, EIB and Ecobank Partner to Boost SME Finance across Africa

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Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Capital Markets in Africa — International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), parent company of the Ecobank Group and leading pan-African full-service banking group, today signed a landmark risk-sharing agreement that will help fill the gap in financing for small and medium sized enterprises in some of Sub-Saharan Africa’s poorest and most fragile countries. Under the agreement, EIB,…

Nigeria | Lafarge Africa Plc FY2015Earnings: Weak Numbers with Mixed Outlook

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — Lafarge Africa Plc (“Lafarge” or “The Group”) released its FY:2015 result last Thursday, 17th March 2016. The result, which is a consolidated account incorporating its new subsidiary – The United Cement Company of Nigeria Ltd (UNICEM) – showed a 2.5% growth in top-line and PBT (from continuing operations) fell 27.5% Y-o-Y to N267.2bn and N29.3bn respectively. Turnover, excluding UNICEM, was up 3.5% Y-o-Y relative to our forecast of…

Morocco central bank cuts benchmark interest rate to 2.25 percent

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CASABLANCA, Morocco, Capital Markets in Africa — The Moroccan central bank cut its benchmark interest rate on Tuesday for the first time since December 2014 in an attempt to stimulate an economy hurt by weak cereal production and non-agriculture activity. The Bank reduced the key rate by 25 basis points to 2.25 percent, Bank Al-Maghrib said in a statement. The central bank also lowered its growth forecast for this year to 1 percent from 3…

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