New African magazine launched

African Banker is a new quarterly magazine dedicated to banking and finance in Africa. It covers news from the banking, finance, insurance, stock markets, currency, capital markets, direct and indirect financial investment sectors and it taps into the growing demand for information about Africa's banking and financial world.

The magazine was launched at the African Development Bank annual meeting that took place in Shanghai, China during May, but it is also distributed free with the June issue of African Business magazine. The second issue will be published in October this year to coincide with the World Bank/IMF meeting and the African Banker Awards in Washington.

The contents of African Banker Summer 2007 issue includes:
* Interview with Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank
* Interview with Nkosana Moyo of Actis
* Profile of the newly created African Finance Corporation
* Profile of Cecilia Ibru, Managing Director of Oceanic Bank
* Interview with Tutu Agyare, head of Emerging Marked at UBS
* New Appointments and news from the African banking world.

The magazine has been distributed with Africa's most-read business magazine, African Business. Furthermore, it has been sent to the CEOs of the top African banks, as well as insurance companies, brokers and investment houses in Africa.

It has also been sent to the all the African desks of international banks in London, New York, Singapore, Tokyo and Dubai. The first issue was widely available at the AfBD meeting in Shanghai, while the second issue will be distributed to delegates attending the upcoming World Bank/IMF meeting in Washington, in October.