Interview

Investment firm RisCura’s 2019 Bright Africa research was released today and provides a broad analysis of the investment landscape across Africa. The annual Bright Africa research initiative was started by RisCura in 2013 to answer key investor questions about investing on the continent. This year, RisCura expanded the breadth of its analysis, to include inter-Africa connectivity, currency risk, sources of capital on the continent and the inclusion of sovereign bonds, real estate and infrastructure asset…

LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – The first iGaming business emerged sometime in the mid-1990s when a pair of young entrepreneurs merged their homegrown secure online payment solution with the allure of casino games to create the first online casino. Since then, iGaming has grown into a multi-billion dollar business, shedding many of its early issues with bad actors and flawed regulations, even breaking into markets that are too conservative for them (think of the…

Despite various geopolitical and economic challenges at the beginning of 2019, markets managed to deliver very strong returns for the year. And investors will be relieved to see that equity markets look set to start 2020 on a slightly better footing, as many of these uncertainties have been addressed to some extent over 2019. However, the US-China trade war tensions have still not reached a resolution, global recession warning lights remain flashing and geopolitical risks…

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – In 2019, the Department for Africa and the Middle East of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland published a Megatrend in Africa report.   The trends ultimately considered as “megatrends” depends on the definition of a megatrend. In this instance, the Department for Africa and the Middle East defined six major trends in Africa as megatrends: population growth, climate change, urbanization, migration, technological development, and democracy trends. Megatrends…