Into Africa | - Part 13

African market outlook for 2017: Opportunities and challenges

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – The global risk backdrop has been relatively supportive for emerging market (EM) FX and fixed income in early January 2017, as investors downplayed previous concerns about fiscal stimulus in the US under a Trump administration. This has underpinned the South African rand and local bonds and reinforced a receiving bias in swaps. However, there is a risk that upward pressure on UST yields and a bull USD cycle may…

Pan-African Banking Model: Balancing Risk and Reward

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Africa-originated banks are increasingly becoming dominated players across the financial landscape in Africa. This is happening at a time when some western-based banks are scaling back their activities in the region. For the most part, these pan-African banks originate from large African economies (based on income) such as Nigeria (United Bank of Africa), South Africa (Standard Bank), Morocco (Attijariwafa Bank) but also small economies such as Togo where Ecobank…

Egypt: Tides Are Changing, Or Is History Repeating Itself?

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CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Egypt is flashing once again at the centre of emerging markets’ radar screen after a long recede, ever since the outbreak of the 2011 revolution and the years of political and economic instability that followed. The Government has just embarked upon long-awaited and badly needed structural reforms, including, but not limited to, a shift to a flexible exchange rate regime that aims to tackle the currency shortage and attract…

INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE IN AFRICA: A LEGAL VIEWPOINT

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: The key to unlocking Africa’s growth potential The continued downturn in global commodities prices has, according to the World Bank’s Africa’s Pulse April 2016 report, reduced Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth to 3% in 2015 from 4.5% in 2014. Despite this fall, Africa’s economic growth of 3% for 2015 is higher than the global average growth rate. It is undeniable that developing the continent’s road, rail, power and urban infrastructure…

INTO AFRICA August Edition: INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE IN AFRICA

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Welcome to the August edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. The edition focuses on Infrastructure Financing in Africa. Please download by clicking INTO AFRICA PUBLICATION: AUGUST EDITION. Africa has experienced rapid and exponential economic growth in the last decade and a half. This growth has occurred despite the continent’s huge infrastructure deficit, one of the reasons why economists and policy commentators question Africa’s economic growth…

INTO AFRICA July Edition: PRIVATE EQUITY:- AFRICA’S TRUMP CARD!

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Welcome to the July edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. Please download by clicking INTO AFRICA PUBLICATION: JULY EDITION. African countries experienced an exponential growth trajectory over the past ten years and will continue to demonstrate strong fundamentals that signal continued growth in the medium-term and long-term. Despite recent short-term volatility over the growing austerity, slow growth in Europe and Britain (the Brexit…

Unleashing African Equities — Fund Manager Perspective

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Confident in the positive prospects embedded into Africa’s long term development, our team has been working on the best way to access the latter for almost a decade. In this purpose, one should be aware that intrinsic risks related to the region’s political and economic situation make the definition of an investment strategy relatively complex, especially when taking into account the features of the continent’s capital markets such as…

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