Sanlam and the National Stokvel Association of South Africa (NASASA) have launched NASASA Financial Services (Pty) Ltd; a brokerage catering to the financial services needs of...
African capital markets are increasingly adopting disruption to make investing more transparent and accessible to a younger, tech-savvy generation, and see an increase in trading volumes.
It is fascinating that many entrepreneurs fail to formulate business models, while some don’t even know what a business model is. A simple definition of a...
Although small, Rwanda’s stock exchange is on its way to becoming fully-electronic.
Competition in Africa’s leading stock exchange market is facing a difficult birth. Next year, South Africa could have three stock exchanges, but the Johannesburg Stock Exchange...
After a string of banks collapsed, Kenya is pushing for higher capitalization and new deals are on the rise.
Property entrepreneur Kennedy Okonkwo saw a buck in building for the middle class of Nigeria. He believes the market – like his country – can only...
Africa has 54 diverse countries, a billion people on the move, an abundance of raw materials, the largest new market for goods and services, a food...
The once thriving Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) is a shadow of itself. It has declined as sharply as the economy. Last March, the African Development Bank...
As democracy gradually spread around the world, capitalism was favored over the more repressive feudal system. It meant that those who were not born of royalty,...