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Oragroup is preparing an issue of new bonds for a maximum amount of CFAF 20 billion by private placement with…

Canada announced Monday in Glasgow, where the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) has been taking place since…

Wicrypt, a Nigerian blockchain-based Wi-Fi sharing startup, announced it raised $ 1.5 million in a fundraising round. Funding was led…

SouthBridge investment bank announces the appointment of Jean-Christ Ametep as director of its office in Abidjan (Ivory Coast). The promoted…

Coris Bank International opened its first branch in Conakry, capital of Guinea, on the Angle Boulevard Diallo Telly on November…

Equity Bank Kenya Limited announced on Monday (November 8th) its intention to buy Britam’s stake in HF Group, a mortgage…

The net income of NSIA Banque Côte d’Ivoire, a member of the financial group of the same name, increased by…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Allianz Global Investors will launch a EUR 500 million fundraising operation to strengthen climate…

TymeBank, a South African-based exclusively digital retail bank, announced on Thursday (November 4th) that it had reached the 4 million…

The State of Burkina Faso, through its General Directorate of the Treasury and Public Accounts, raised on November 3, 2021…

Opportunity International and Oikocredit announced on November 2, 2021, a $ 100 million impact investment agreement to advance education in…

Approved on December 16, 2019 by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), the Togolese branch of the Development…

The Central African Financial Market Surveillance Commission (Cosumaf) is stepping up initiatives aimed at strengthening the regulatory framework and cleaning…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) retains its triple AAA with Moody’s, the agency informed in a report from November 2,…...

Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments company, has raised $ 150 million in a Series C extension round, valuing itself…

Centum Investment Group announced at the end of last week that it is in negotiations to acquire three companies based…

West Africa Rating Agency (WARA) affirmed, at the end of its semi-annual review, the long-term rating in regional currency “tAAA”…

The financial rating agency Bloomfield Investment Corporation has assigned a rating of “A-” to Fidelis Finance-Burkina Faso, a leasing specialist…

Starsight Energy, West Africa’s leading commercial and industrial clean off-grid energy supplier, has become the first renewable energy company in…

Opibus has just completed a fundraising in equity and grants amounting to 7.5 million dollars. The biggest financing ever for…

AfricInvest, leader in pan-African private equity and Tawhid CHTIOUI (photo), entrepreneur in the field of higher education, announce the acquisition…

After a rate of 3.5% in July and August 2021, the inflation rate in the WAEMU stood at 4.3% at…

A year and a half after the outbreak of the health crisis linked to the coronavirus, the Cameroonian banking sector…...

Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank in terms of assets, has partnered with Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payment technology company, internal group…

Nairobi-based venture capital fund Antler East Africa announced on October 29, 2021 that it had raised 1.6 billion shillings ($…

Patrimoine Africa, a structure based in Abidjan, announced the launch of a bond loan for an internal fund relating to…

The Société de Limonaderie et brasseries d’Afrique (SOLIBRA) posted an after-tax profit of 15.607 billion FCFA (23.411 million euros) at…...

South African microfinance firm Barko announced Thursday, October 28, that it will launch a new digital bank built on Temenos…

The African Import-Export Bank (Afreximbank) will launch a general capital increase operation (GCI) of $ 6.5 billion to finance some…

Boubacar Camara, former Director General of Senegalese Customs, has been appointed Deputy Director General of Customs in Benin. His appointment…