Into Africa | - Part 10

INTO AFRICA March 2018 Edition: Sailing Africa 2018 Investment Prospects

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Welcome to the March 2018 edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. The edition is titled: Sailing Africa 2018 Investment Prospects. After a difficult period from 2014 to 2016, African equities posted excellent returns in 2017, with the Zimbabwean Stock Exchange (ZSE) the top performer with triple-digit growth. The market gains are in line with performances recorded across the globe where stock…

INTO AFRICA February 2018 Edition: The Year 2018 -Africa Economy Normalization.

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Happy New Year! A new year, a new edition and a wealth of new insights – tailormade for you. The Capital Markets in Africa would like to proudly introduce the February 2018 edition of the INTO AFRICA – the publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging markets. The edition provides insight and foresight into African economies (from Southern Africa to North Africa and East Africa to West Africa as well…

INTO AFRICA August 2017 Edition: Delivering Value via African Capital Markets

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Welcome to the August edition of INTO AFRICA, the publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging markets. This month edition focuses on Capital Markets in Africa and titled: Delivering Values via African Capital Markets. The capital market is one of the key components of the engine of a modern economy, as it mobilises and pools savings from the public and efficiently channels them into business investments. It also helps…

Growing Inclusive Insurance Markets: Emerging Trends and Supervision

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Insurance softens the blows of misfortune. However, many low-income earners lack access to insurance and are thus deprived of the cushioning insurance provides although they are the ones in most need of insurance protection as they have little to fall on. For smallholder farmers, for example, besides the lack of access to insurance leaving them exposed to the varieties of the weather, it can also disincentives them from investing…

The Four Africas: Nigeria – The Unstoppable Super Eagle

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – It is a results-driven world we live in, like it or not. And the rules are simple, occasionally ruthless, but invariably bottom-line. Whenever international financial institutions or global marketing giants look to invest their capital, manpower and technology in a new market, they invariably ask one question: Are the fundamentals sound? If the answer is “yes,” they continue. They set down roots. And they often use that nation as…

Africa’s Central Bank Monetary Policy Rates and Foreign Exchange Reserves

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Angola’s central bank kept its benchmark lending rate unchanged at 16 percent following a policy meeting on Friday 28th April 2017, the bank said in a statement posted on its website. The National Bank of Angola (BNA) has kept its key rate steady since June last year when it raised it to the current level to curb accelerating inflation. In 2016 the BNA rate was raised 500 basis points….

Complexities in Financing Energy Projects in Africa

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Understanding the need for financing of projects in the African Energy Sector: The power sector is a fundamental building block for economic advancement in any country. Abundant, affordable and reliable energy is the cornerstone of growth in today’s world. The great efforts undertaken by the African States to supply sustainable energy to its people have been well documented in the last number of years, along with a shift from conventional fuels…

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