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Innovating Financial Services for a Digitally Inclusive Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — The 23rd Edition Connected Banking Summit – Innovation & Excellence Awards 2025 is set to take place on August 13, 2025, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, bringing together key stakeholders from the banking, financial services, and insurance sectors to explore the future of digital banking in Ethiopia. As Ethiopia advances toward its vision of a Digital Ethiopia by 2025, this summit serves as a premier platform to drive dialogue, partnerships, and strategies…

ERP in the experience Economy is about more than just Systems

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By Doug Woolley, Executive for Sales at Altron Digital Business The evolution of Information Technology (IT) from a support function to a business driver is well established. For years now, technology has played a central role in helping organisations scale, improve agility and achieve their growth objectives. The experience economy is built through connections Today, we are seeing a further shift in that technology’s impact, which is increasingly measured not just by internal efficiencies or…

EAAIF secures USD $100 million debt facility from Export Finance Australia

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LONDON – The Emerging Africa & Asia Infrastructure Fund (EAAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company managed by Ninety One, today announced it has secured a USD $100 million debt facility from Export Finance Australia (EFA). The commitment reinforces EAAIF’s expansion to Asian markets and plans to mobilise investment for strategic infrastructure in South and Southeast Asia. Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) in South and Southeast Asia represent over 2.5 billion people –…

Trump Terminated Power Africa, an Initiative to expand electricity in Africa

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – The Trump administration has terminated Power Africa, a U.S. initiative launched in 2013 under President Barack Obama to enhance electricity access across Africa. This decision aligns with broader federal budget cuts aimed at reducing government spending. Power Africa, managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), aimed to bring electricity to tens of millions of African households, addressing critical infrastructure gaps across the continent. Since its inception, the program…

Launching a startup in Africa: OX Delivers

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa): At AFSIC – Investing in Africa 2024 dialogue focuses on nurturing investment and collaboration across the investment value chain and driving sustainable growth in Africa. With a wide variety of industry sectors attending and many of the key financial sector participants present, investors attend AFSIC looking for new investment ideas or looking to raise capital for their own funds. To help facilitate this the AFSIC Investor Pitching room offers quickfire…

Why we focus on the Emerging Markets consumer

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A thoughtful investor I know asked whether focusing solely on the consumer in our EM strategy “was still appropriate.” Given this is our exclusive focus it rather took me aback. Granted, our growth proposition has been under the hose for 18 months now (as has growth all around the world) with analysts cutting forecasts in the face of rising inflation and rates. Additionally, the almost frenzied pursuit of AI has seen what interest there has…

Global: Recent bank problems have not derailed our outlook

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa): Over recent months the world economy has continued to prove more resilient than expected to the raft of shocks that it has faced over the past year or so. After a slightly better-than-initially-expected end to last year, clearer signs have emerged that Q1 should prove a pretty solid quarter for the world economy. China has rebounded more sharply than we expected a couple of months ago following the ending of…

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