JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, February 28, 2024/ — Africa’s largest energy event – the African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energy conference – will feature the African Energy Finance Summit during this year’s edition in Cape Town. The summit, hosted in…
Author: Stephanie PhD Candidate, University di Bologna First Published: February 27, 2024 4.08pm SAST Digital technologies have many potential benefits for people in African countries. They can support the delivery of healthcare services, promote access to education and lifelong learning,…
CURITIBA, Brazil, January 25, 2024/ — Clients in major rising economies like Brazil, India, Kenya, and Nigeria are pulling the global digital market up by paying online purchases with instant payments, transfers, and other alternative payment methods – including for B2B…
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, January 18, 2024/ — The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has supported the capacity building of about 50 managers from Burundi’s public administration to consolidate implementation of the programme budget currently under deployment. The training sessions, which ran from…
Fareed Rahman Jan 01, 2024 The expansion of the Brics bloc to include Saudi Arabia and the UAE is expected to offer new investment opportunities for the Arab world’s two largest economies while boosting the group’s influence globally, analysts said. Saudi Arabia along…
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, December 13, 2023/ — The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved various financing structures valued at $696.41 million for Burundi and Tanzania to start Phase II of the Joint Tanzania-Burundi-DR Congo…
By Boriss Gubaidulin, Africa Director, Admirals The global online trading market has witnessed a remarkable upswing, fuelled by technological advancements and the widespread accessibility of the internet. This surge in popularity and increase of the global market size to USD9.32bn…
To issue international sovereign bonds, financial markets require countries to have a credit rating from at least one or more of the three leading international credit rating agencies (CRAs) namely, Fitch, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s (S&P). This constitutes a…
FINANCIAL SERVICES African Union plans to launch its own credit ratings agency Kenya shilling coins and notes are pictured inside a cashier’s booth at a forex exchange bureau in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya Reuters Images The…
Cairo, 28 Aug. 2023: – The China Development Bank (CDB) today in Cairo signed a development-focused agreement to provide the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) with a US$400-million term loan facility to support the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across…
