Africa’s financial architecture is undergoing a quiet but consequential reset. Governments are reasserting control over ...

Absa’s Ronnie Mbatsane is Singapore-based finance firm’s latest high profile hire as part of global expansion drive ...

By integrating ESG into its core operations rather than treating it as a separate line of business, Standard Chartered is ...

The difficult funding environment for African private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) industries seen in 2023 is unlikely to improve any time soon. This is raising pressure on PE firms to find ...

Until late 2022, African start-ups — particularly fintech businesses — enjoyed a funding boom from venture capitalists and ...

Two vastly different yet curiously similar worlds met at the Inclusive Fintech Forum in a conference centre in Kigali in June. Rwanda was the host of the event, through its Kigali International ...

Over the past few years there has been a sharp slowdown in venture-capital funding worldwide. Africa is less than 5% of the global market by deal value but has proved to be relatively insulated; total ...

African private capital fundraising more than doubled to $4.0 billion in 2024, representing the third highest final close value on the continent in the last decade. The 2024 African Private Capital ...

The Emerging Africa Group has entered into partnership with two Asian financial institutions for the establishment of a global fund that will invest in life-enhancing projects across Africa, Asia and ...

Funds that have recently raised or are raising capital for agriculture investment in Africa, or which have agriculture and agribusiness as focus sectors include: Sign up here. -- SilverStreet Capital, ...