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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

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: @USAID_SAfrica/X. Congratulations to Lesotho’s Jalad Africa who emerged as Regional Exporter of the Year at the Southern Africa Regional Exporters Awards held on 26 July in Gqeberha, South Africa. The awards are part of a collaboration between the US Government through @USAID and @ecdc_developec.
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#AGOA2024: Standard Bank highlights partnerships, opportunities

26 Jul 2024

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Source: Reuters.

IMF may need to augment Egypt programme amid Gaza war impacts, Georgieva says

20 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

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

Aziz El Yaakoubi 10 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

African Development Bank approves $102.6m support programme for Ghana

Christian Akorlie and Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 10 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Belgium drafting new fuel quality law targeting exports to Africa

3 Nov 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

Source: Supplied.

Pan-African real-estate firm and RMB take a lead in propelling Africa's sustainability agenda

29 Sep 2023

Source: Miranda Abraham, RMB’s head of loan syndications.

Miranda Abraham appointed to LMA Board, boosting EMEA

22 Sep 2023

Zambian neobank Lupiya secures $8.25m funding

Zambian neobank Lupiya secures $8.25m funding

18 Sep 2023

Source: Twitter/ @AfDB_Group President of the African Development Bank Group Akinwumi Adesina wraps up a week of learning and strengthening collaboration with the government and private sector of Korea with a visit to Busan’s port, the busiest in the world.

African Development Bank and South Korea ink $28.6m deals

18 Sep 2023

#BRICS2023: Pandemic fund in focus for Brics Bank

Katja Hamilton 30 Aug 2023

Source: Afreximbank.

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

29 Aug 2023

Source: Twitter/@ZenithBank

Zenith Bank and AfCFTA revolutionise African trade

10 Aug 2023

Source: Reuters. A view shows an ecoguard walking on a path in the Arboretum Raponda Walker during a press visit of this protected forest aera on the eve of the opening of the One Forest Summit in Libreville, Gabon, February 28, 2023.

Gabon launches tender for Africa's first debt-for-nature swap

Marc Jones and Rachel Savage 26 Jul 2023

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

5 Jul 2023

Source: Supplied. Sandra Villars, senior advisor to Oliver Wyman.

Why African banks need to embrace non-financial disclosures, and fast

Sandra Villars 28 Jun 2023

Source: @WHOSouthSudan

Banks and WHO launch investment platform to strengthen primary healthcare services

26 Jun 2023

Source: Reuters.

SocGen pares back Africa businesses in first move by new CEO

GV De Clercq and Mathieu Rosemain 9 Jun 2023

Africa's most valuable brands demonstrate resilience and growth as MTN remains dominant

Africa's most valuable brands demonstrate resilience and growth as MTN remains dominant

1 Jun 2023

Standard Bank joins forces with DP World

30 May 2023

Source: Supplied.

Unifi unveils third branch in Kenya

17 May 2023

Source: Twitter @jpmorgan

JPMorgan seizes First Republic Bank

2 May 2023

Source: Supplied. David Mparutsa, head of enterprise and supply-chain development at Absa Africa

A call for the mobilisation of the continent's resources and resilience

12 Apr 2023

Source: Supplied. Chief executive officer of Xapo Bank, Seamus Rocca.

Xapo's Seamus Rocca ushers in a new era of hybrid banking

Katja Hamilton 27 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: Supplied. Jeremy Awori new chief executive officer of the Ecobank group.

Meet Ecobank group's new CEO

3 Mar 2023

Source: Supplied.

RMB now operating from New York

6 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied.

African Development Bank to commit $10bn to end hunger on the continent

30 Jan 2023

Source: Supplied. Lesetja Kganyago, the South African Reserve Bank governor.

Davos 2023: How much longer before the Reserve Bank rolls out retail digital currency?

Katja Hamilton 25 Jan 2023

More news

Source: Reuters.

IMF may need to augment Egypt programme amid Gaza war impacts, Georgieva says

20 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

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

Aziz El Yaakoubi 10 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

African Development Bank approves $102.6m support programme for Ghana

Christian Akorlie and Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 10 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Belgium drafting new fuel quality law targeting exports to Africa

3 Nov 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

Source: Supplied.

Pan-African real-estate firm and RMB take a lead in propelling Africa's sustainability agenda

29 Sep 2023

Source: Miranda Abraham, RMB’s head of loan syndications.

Miranda Abraham appointed to LMA Board, boosting EMEA

22 Sep 2023

Zambian neobank Lupiya secures $8.25m funding

Zambian neobank Lupiya secures $8.25m funding

18 Sep 2023

Source: Twitter/ @AfDB_Group President of the African Development Bank Group Akinwumi Adesina wraps up a week of learning and strengthening collaboration with the government and private sector of Korea with a visit to Busan’s port, the busiest in the world.

African Development Bank and South Korea ink $28.6m deals

18 Sep 2023

#BRICS2023: Pandemic fund in focus for Brics Bank

Katja Hamilton 30 Aug 2023

Source: Afreximbank.

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

29 Aug 2023

Source: Twitter/@ZenithBank

Zenith Bank and AfCFTA revolutionise African trade

10 Aug 2023

Source: Reuters. A view shows an ecoguard walking on a path in the Arboretum Raponda Walker during a press visit of this protected forest aera on the eve of the opening of the One Forest Summit in Libreville, Gabon, February 28, 2023.

Gabon launches tender for Africa's first debt-for-nature swap

Marc Jones and Rachel Savage 26 Jul 2023

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

5 Jul 2023

Source: Supplied. Sandra Villars, senior advisor to Oliver Wyman.

Why African banks need to embrace non-financial disclosures, and fast

Sandra Villars 28 Jun 2023

Source: @WHOSouthSudan

Banks and WHO launch investment platform to strengthen primary healthcare services

26 Jun 2023

Source: Reuters.

SocGen pares back Africa businesses in first move by new CEO

GV De Clercq and Mathieu Rosemain 9 Jun 2023

Africa's most valuable brands demonstrate resilience and growth as MTN remains dominant

Africa's most valuable brands demonstrate resilience and growth as MTN remains dominant

1 Jun 2023

Standard Bank joins forces with DP World

30 May 2023

Source: Supplied.

Unifi unveils third branch in Kenya

17 May 2023

Source: Twitter @jpmorgan

JPMorgan seizes First Republic Bank

2 May 2023

Source: Supplied. David Mparutsa, head of enterprise and supply-chain development at Absa Africa

A call for the mobilisation of the continent's resources and resilience

12 Apr 2023

Source: Supplied. Chief executive officer of Xapo Bank, Seamus Rocca.

Xapo's Seamus Rocca ushers in a new era of hybrid banking

Katja Hamilton 27 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: Supplied. Jeremy Awori new chief executive officer of the Ecobank group.

Meet Ecobank group's new CEO

3 Mar 2023

Source: Supplied.

RMB now operating from New York

6 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied.

African Development Bank to commit $10bn to end hunger on the continent

30 Jan 2023

Source: Supplied. Lesetja Kganyago, the South African Reserve Bank governor.

Davos 2023: How much longer before the Reserve Bank rolls out retail digital currency?

Katja Hamilton 25 Jan 2023

Source: Supplied. David de Coning, Crossgate Technologies' chief executive officer.

Goodbye magstripe; hello EMV mobile... and paying for your coffee in crypto and gold

Katja Hamilton 24 Jan 2023

Source: Supplied.

Egypt's central bank taking action to regulate forex market

Ahmed Tolba 28 Dec 2022

Source: Reuters.

World Bank approves $500m to expand social security in Egypt - ministry

23 Dec 2022

Source: Pixabay.

African Development Bank unveils the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation

23 Dec 2022

Source: Reuters.

Visa to invest $1bn in Africa over 5 years to cash in on e-payments boom

15 Dec 2022

Source: Supplied.

Swiss Re Foundation's $500,000 grant set to boost Africa's insurance sector

1 Dec 2022

Source: Reuters.

Nigeria unveils new bank notes in bid to control liquidity

25 Nov 2022

Source: Supplied.

The Egyptian Banking Institute launches executive programme for the African banking sector

14 Nov 2022

Standard Bank commits R300bn to sustainability target

Katja Hamilton 21 Oct 2022

Source: African Bank.

African banks increasingly worried about funding costs, survey shows

Marc Jones and Rachel Savage 21 Oct 2022