Browsing: Banks & Insurance

Meeting on 14 February 2019, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) decided to reduce…

Recently introduced on the Casablanca Stock Exchange, Mutandis closed the year 2018 with a 40% increase in its net profit…...

 The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has upgraded its compliance function to a full department, naming long-serving banker Maureen Mba as Director.…

The Cameroonian subsidiary of the French group Société Générale has seen a sharp increase in net banking income (GNP) in…...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has appointed Humphrey Nwugo as Regional Chief Operating Officer for its Harare-based Southern Africa Regional…

Financial Afrik met with Citi’s CEO for the Middle East and Africa. In this role since 2015, Atiq Rehman outlines…

Bank of Tanzania (BoT), the central bank of the East African country is forecasting a 0.1% rise in economic growth…

According to the Treasury and Public Accounting Department of Côte d’Ivoire, the country’s banking sector recorded a balance sheet total…

By Amath Ndiaye, Senior Lecturer, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar. The debate on the CFA arouses a lot of…

The volume of premiums issued in life and non-life is down slightly for Africa (1.3%) over the period 2013 to…...

South Africa’s insurer and financial services group, Sanlam, has announced the complete resumption of the Rwandan insurance companies Soras Assurance…...

At the end of the first half of 2018, the Gabonese reinsurer saw a decrease of 2.56% of the turnover…...

French bank Société Générale has announced its goal of increasing its market share in its Ghana operations to 7%. “We…

Economist and banker Cheickna Bounajim Cisse has just published “FCFA – Hidden Face of African Finance” (Ed BoD, 2019). The…

According to the Evolution of the Togolese Financial System presented in the National Development Plan (NDP), the analysis of the…

According to its results not yet audited, the Tunisian insurance company Salim recorded, in 2018, a 13% increase in its…

In Nigeria, Guinea Insurance Plc’s activities were suspended by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) in a decision issued on January…

The Ghanaian subsidiary of the Old Mutual Insurance Company has announced the appointment of a new General Manager in the…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has allocated a 5.12-hectare piece of land in Abuja to the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)…

After almost ten years in the top management of the world’s largest financial companies, the Franco-Ivorian banker is expected to…...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) injected on Tuesday, January 29, 210 million USD on the interbank foreign exchange market…

In Togo, less than 1% of bank loans go to the agricultural sector, which accounts for 60% of the active…

Emirati Emirates Bank NBD won for the second time in a row the “Best Bank” award in Egypt for 2018…

According to a statement issued by the Banque de l’Habitat (BH), the institution’s NBI rose by 17.5% in 2018 to…

Société Générale Côte d’Ivoire was awarded the “Best Trade Finance Service Provider 2019” award from the Ivorian market by Global…

Afreximbank President Prof. Benedict Oramah addressing participants at the opening of the Financing Investment and Trade in Africa conference in…

The operationalization of the newly-created Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA) moved into high gear today with the holding of the…

By Brice Kouao. WHAT IS THE MOST OFFENSIVE BANK FOR CREDITS IN COTE D’IVOIRE? Between 2013 and 2017, loans granted…...

Mauritian bank SBM Bank on Thursday (January 24th) inaugurated its first wholly-owned subsidiary in India. The ceremony was chaired by…

The Central Bank of Mauritania (BCM) officially launched Thursday, January 24, a contest called “FinTech Challenge”. It was in partnership…