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Pictures: Aida Diarra, senior vice president and head of sub-Saharan Africa at Visa with Clayton Hayward, group CEO of EFTCorp. Together they have formed a five year partnership to enhance financial inclusion in Africa (Image supplied)

Visa invests $1bn to grow financial inclusion in Africa, partners with EFTCorp

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Source: © WPP Despite third-quarter results showing a strong performance from GroupM and WPP's winning of the Amazon media account, the network's expectations for the full year remain unchanged

Strong Q3 performance for WPP; full year expectations remain unchanged

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Source: © The Media Leader In a move termed, "an excellent outcome for WPP" by Mark Read, WPP CEO, WPP will sell its entire majority stake in FGS Global

WPP sells majority stake in FGS Global to Bidco Inc - An excellent outcome for WPP

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Inaugural Supply Chain Business Forum and Exhibition

Inaugural Supply Chain Business Forum and Exhibition

27 Jun 2024

Image supplied. Last year's African Banker Award. the African Banker magazine’s African Banker Awards nominees have been announced for this year

3 women nominees for African Banker Awards Banker of the Year

7 May 2024

A man poses with a handful of Zimbabwean dollars at a bank in central Harare, 15 June 2015. Zimbabweans began exchanging old notes of local dollars for US dollars, as President Robert Mugabe's government seeks to officially bury the worthless currency. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

Zimbabwe launches gold-backed currency to replace battered local dollar

Nyasha Chingono 5 Apr 2024

Japan slides into recession

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Gold rush for green: Africa poised to seize opportunity for clean technology leadership

NJ Ayuk 1 Jan 2024

Source: © 123rf For the first time journalists can now submit entries in any category of the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism

Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism open for entries

6 Dec 2023

Source: Reuters.

Saudi Arabia to sign deals worth over $500m with African nations -minister

Aziz El Yaakoubi 10 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Belgium drafting new fuel quality law targeting exports to Africa

3 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Africa-US trade programme needs at least 10-year extension, AU says

Joe Bavier 3 Nov 2023

Source: © 123rf The annual Africa Business Media Innovators (ABMI) Forum 2023 will take place from 30 October to 1 November in Cape Town

Bloomberg's Annual Africa Business Media Innovators Forum 2023 set for Cape Town

16 Oct 2023

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Pictures: Aida Diarra, senior vice president and head of sub-Saharan Africa at Visa with Clayton Hayward, group CEO of EFTCorp. Together they have formed a five year partnership to enhance financial inclusion in Africa (Image supplied)

Visa invests $1bn to grow financial inclusion in Africa, partners with EFTCorp

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2024 AABLA Business Leader of the year: African Bank's CEO, Kennedy G Bungane

2024 AABLA Business Leader of the year: African Bank's CEO, Kennedy G Bungane

28 Oct 2024

Source: © WPP Despite third-quarter results showing a strong performance from GroupM and WPP's winning of the Amazon media account, the network's expectations for the full year remain unchanged

Strong Q3 performance for WPP; full year expectations remain unchanged

23 Oct 2024

Source: © The Media Leader In a move termed, "an excellent outcome for WPP" by Mark Read, WPP CEO, WPP will sell its entire majority stake in FGS Global

WPP sells majority stake in FGS Global to Bidco Inc - An excellent outcome for WPP

7 Aug 2024

Inaugural Supply Chain Business Forum and Exhibition

Inaugural Supply Chain Business Forum and Exhibition

27 Jun 2024

Image supplied. Last year's African Banker Award. the African Banker magazine’s African Banker Awards nominees have been announced for this year

3 women nominees for African Banker Awards Banker of the Year

7 May 2024

A man poses with a handful of Zimbabwean dollars at a bank in central Harare, 15 June 2015. Zimbabweans began exchanging old notes of local dollars for US dollars, as President Robert Mugabe's government seeks to officially bury the worthless currency. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

Zimbabwe launches gold-backed currency to replace battered local dollar

Nyasha Chingono 5 Apr 2024

Japan slides into recession

15 Feb 2024

Gold rush for green: Africa poised to seize opportunity for clean technology leadership

NJ Ayuk 1 Jan 2024

Source: © 123rf For the first time journalists can now submit entries in any category of the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism

Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism open for entries

6 Dec 2023

Source: Reuters.

Saudi Arabia to sign deals worth over $500m with African nations -minister

Aziz El Yaakoubi 10 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Belgium drafting new fuel quality law targeting exports to Africa

3 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Africa-US trade programme needs at least 10-year extension, AU says

Joe Bavier 3 Nov 2023

Source: © 123rf The annual Africa Business Media Innovators (ABMI) Forum 2023 will take place from 30 October to 1 November in Cape Town

Bloomberg's Annual Africa Business Media Innovators Forum 2023 set for Cape Town

16 Oct 2023

Source: Reuters. Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, addresses the media on the fourth day of the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, following last month's deadly earthquake, in Marrakech, Morocco.

Cautious welcome: World Bank and IMF return to Africa, but questions remain

Carlos Lopes 12 Oct 2023

Source: Supplied.

Standard Bank's inaugural nature-conservation loan powers Wilderness' market expansion

11 Oct 2023

Source: Supplied.

Is Mauritian banking transforming sub-Saharan Africa's economic landscape internationally?

Thavin Audit 4 Oct 2023

A view shows rubble in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Talat N'yaaqoub, Morocco, 11 September 2023. Reuters/Hannah McKay

Morocco wants IMF-World Bank meetings to proceed despite quake

David Lawder 12 Sep 2023

Source: Afreximbank.

Afreximbank and China Development Bank forge $400m loan pact for African SME support

29 Aug 2023

Source: Supplied. SA President Cyril Ramaphosa in a pull-aside meeting with UN Secretary General HE António Guterres on the margins of the Brics-Africa Outreach and Brics Plus Dialogue which took place at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.

#BRICS2023 triumph: The week that shaped inclusive global dialogue

Katja Hamilton 25 Aug 2023

Source: United Nations. UN Secretary-General, António Guterres.

#BRICS2023: UN Secretary-General calls for African seat on Security Council

Katja Hamilton 25 Aug 2023

#BRICS2023: Putin's pledge: A path to food security in Africa

Katja Hamilton 23 Aug 2023

Source: African Rainbow Energy. Patrice Motsepe, Brics Business Council chairperson.

#BRICS2023: Brics Business Council chair urges swift implementation of AfCFTA

23 Aug 2023

Source: TV Brics.

Naledi Pandor announces SA's readiness to host 15th Brics Summit

10 Aug 2023

Source: Reuters.

Dollar shrugs off Fitch's US credit rating downgrade

Rae Wee 2 Aug 2023

File photo: William Ruto, President of Kenya, speaks during a joint press conference with Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, French President Emmanuel Macron, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and World Bank President Ajay Banga at the end of the New Global Financial Pact Summit, Friday, 23 June 2023 in Paris, France. Lewis Joly/Pool via Reuters/File Photo

Kenya appeals court unfreezes finance law that sparked unrest

Humphrey Malalo and Hereward Holland 28 Jul 2023

Source: Reuters.

Nigeria's naira hits record low on black market ahead of central bank meeting

Elisha Bala-Gbogbo 21 Jul 2023

Foreign tourism rebounds with help from the African market

Lee-Anne Bac 6 Jul 2023

Afreximbank and Fiducia forge partnership to revolutionise supply chain finance in Africa

5 Jul 2023

Source: Supplied. Wikimedia Commons

Africa needs its own credit rating agency: here's how it could work

Misheck Mutize 27 Jun 2023

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Rwanda and partners to seek further €300m for climate resilience

George Obulutsa 23 Jun 2023

AfDB proposes 'fast-track' compensation for Zim's White ex-farmers

AfDB proposes 'fast-track' compensation for Zim's White ex-farmers

Nyasha Chingono 15 May 2023

Oil prices fall, set for fourth weekly drop, as demand fears weigh

Oil prices fall, set for fourth weekly drop, as demand fears weigh

Yuka Obayashi and Andrew Hayley 12 May 2023

Source: Twitter/@BRICSza

Pandor signals SA's likely move to adopting new global trading currency

Katja Hamilton 11 May 2023

Source: Reuters.

US Vice President Harris promises greater investment for Africa

Cooper Inveen and Edward McAllister 27 Mar 2023

Ghana's power producers urge government to pay $1.4bn debt

Ghana's power producers urge government to pay $1.4bn debt

Christian Akorlie 24 Mar 2023

A person holds a new 1000 naira note as the Central Bank of Nigeria releases the notes to the public through the banks in Abuja, Nigeria, 15 December 2022. Reuters / Afolabi Sotunde / File Photo

Nigerian court extends old banknotes to end-2023 amid cash shortage

Camillus Eboh 3 Mar 2023

Source: Reuters.Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres speaks as he receives the University of Lisbon 2020 prize, in Lisbon, Portugal, January 5, 2023.

Debt-laden African countries charged 'extortionate' rates, UN chief says

Dawit Endeshaw 20 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters. A person holds a new 1000 Naira note as the Central Bank of Nigeria releases the notes to the public through the banks in Abuja, Nigeria.

Nigeria's plan to ditch old banknotes leads to chaos

15 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied.

RMB now operating from New York

6 Feb 2023