Into Africa | - Part 6

INTO AFRICA March 2019 Edition – Views on Africa Attractiveness

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…

INTO AFRICA October 2018 Edition – Digitalization: Africa’s Future

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Welcome to the October 2018 edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. This month’s edition, titled: Digitalization: Africa’s Future. Across Africa, eCommerce platforms flanked by payments, logistics, tourism and big data partners are starting to lift national economies. Technological disruption is transforming markets and societies across Africa in ways that wouldn’t have been possible even five years ago. And this opens huge and still largely untapped commercial potential for domestic and international…

Zimbabwe: Life After President Robert Mugabe

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – In early November 2017, Robert Mugabe was removed from power in what was effectively a bloodless coup. My wife, children and I joined a million people on the streets of Harare in a celebration of pent up joy and elation, the likes of which I can only imagine were equalled by the fall of the Berlin Wall. People were laughing, dancing, running in circles, waving pictures of the army…

Regulation of the Initial Coin Offerings: Sitting in the Waiting Room

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Although the debate about whether or not to regulate initial coin offerings (ICOs) is in full swing, many key regulators are hot on its heels, and even if we are in the first paragraph, ‘in summary’, they are going to be regulated. The challenge, of course, will be to regulate appropriately without stifling growth and innovation. The volatility of certain tokens (also traditionally referred to as cryptocurrencies or coins)…

Emerging Opportunities in Africa Capital Markets and Trade Finance

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Africa trade finance has been neglected as an asset class, because the yields have been modest relative to African sovereign bond markets and because investors had been attracted to the high beta African investments, like the local currency bonds. The volatility and recent sell-off in EM hard-currency and local-currency bonds in 2018 has changed investors’ appetite significantly. EM fixed income investors are changing their preference towards low beta and…

Africa’s Insurance Market: Where is the Boom?

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – By global standards, Africa’s insurance market remains relatively underdeveloped, accounting for just under 1.2% (0.06 trillion USD) of insurance premiums written globally in 2017. Insurance penetration rates averaged 2.77% in 2016, compared to global averages of 6.28%. Penetration rates in some of the more developed markets such as Cayman Islands topped 22.60% and the UK 10.16%, while the least developed markets such as Nigeria were as low as 0.27%….

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