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INVESTING IN TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURS: A REALITY CHECK

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa’s entrepreneurial activity is at its highest level since 2013, the global entrepreneurship monitor’s (GEM) latest report for South Africa 2017/2018 has revealed. Total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) in South Africa is at 11.0%, 4.1 percentage points higher compared to 2016’s score of 6.9%. This is the measure of all adults in the population that are involved in early stage entrepreneurship. However, this is far from demonstrating a…

Digitisation: Six Key Trends Disrupting the Insurance Sector

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – As exponential, digital-driven technologies transform the 4th Industrial Revolution from a buzzword into reality, the financial services sector – and insurance in particular – face massive disruption, it starts with a radical reimagining of the very model insurance has been built on since its origins in the 14th Century, and Africa is no exception. Several trends are emerging on the continent that pose a significant threat to the business…

Are Financial Services Embracing Analytics and Artificial Intelligent?

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – If there’s one industry that’s been through the mill over the past few years, it’s the financial services industry. Plagued by unparalleled levels of change in terms of business processes, regulations and customer expectations and facing new digital threats all while still reeling from the 2008 global economic crisis, the sector has proven itself to be resilient. Though the outlook for the industry is looking to be more positive,…

Open Banking and APIs: Emerging Opportunity in Africa

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – The terms Open and Africa has never been considered synonymous. With a linguistic diversity of almost 2000 languages, 3000 plus cultural identities and 55 currencies it is hard to image ever establishing an Open architecture on the second largest continent. However, Africa is known for leap-frogging technology. We see solar cities being built instead of laying new power grids, rapid adoption of cellphones instead of landlines and gleaning first…

INTO AFRICA March 2019 Edition – Views on Africa Attractiveness

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Welcome to the March 2019 edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. The edition is titled: Views on Africa Attractiveness. Is Africa fundamental shaken or Africa story over-sold? These and other questions are articulately ventilated at the plethora of Africa Investment forums. We are of the view that neither is Africa fundamental shaken nor story over-sold. In fact, we believe that Africa is the next and last global…

INTO AFRICA February 2019 Edition – Eye on Africa’s Economy in 2019

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Wish you a prosperous year 2019 and welcome to the February 2019 edition of the INTO AFRICA – the publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging markets. This edition provides insight and foresight into African economies from economists and analysts, hence the edition titled: Eye on Africa’s Economy in 2019. The African region faced a tougher external environment in 2018 due to moderating activity and heightened risks clouding global economic prospects. International trade and investment have softened, trade…

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