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By Christine Holzbauer Notwithstanding her flawless academic career in Tunisia, Spain and the United States, Leila Bouamatou has the merit…

After entering the banking markets of Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia, South African financial services provider ABSA is seeking to…...

Absa Bank, the 3rd largest banking group on the African continent, announced that it had made a profit of R16.13…

The Jordanian banking and financial group, Arab Bank Plc, will soon acquire 50.08% stake in the capital of UBCI (Banking…...

Following the crash of Boeing 737 Max of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 of March 10, 2019, insurers Chubb Limited, world…...

Saham Assurances acquired 24% of the capital of Khalladi Wind Farm. The announcement was made Monday, March 11 via a…

BMCE Capital, the Investment Banking division of the BMCE Bank Group, and the investment bank of the ARM Group (Asset…

The Tunisian Bank Corporation has been awarded Best Digital Bank in North Africa and the most responsive bank in this…...

Meeting last week in Bangui (Central African Republic), the Franc Zone Convergence Committee (COCOZOF) carefully avoided the annoying subject, namely…...

African stock markets plummet at the end of the first quarter of 2019. All studies show, the rise in interest…...

The Nigerian bank, Access Bank, signed a subordinated syndicated loan agreement worth 58.18 billion naira ($ 162.5 million) on Monday…...

French bank Société Générale (SG) announces the disbursement of $ 126 million to support Ghana’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)…

The African bank challenger, Vista Bank, has partnered with the banking software specialist Temenos to drive its digital overhaul in…

On 7 March 2019, Wifak Bank General Manager Mohamed Mellousse announced that he had obtained authorization from the bank’s board…

Faced with the press on March 6, 2019 in Nairobi, Joshua Oigara, the president of the Kenyan Bankers Association (KBA)…

Written by Eric MANIABLE and Raissa FOTIA SANTSA. In the previous episode, our actuaries had built surrender rate tables based…

ACCRA, Ghana. 18 March marked the start of structured dialogue around Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) at Africa Climate Week hosted…

The Egyptian subsidiary of Attijariwafa bank has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Global Lease to finance and support SMEs…

Immorente Invest, a Moroccan firm specializing in the management of real estate assets for rental, plans acquisitions ranging from 150…

Following nine months of negotiations, the Kenyan bank Sidian Bank has signed a capital injection of 1.2 billion Shillings (about…

In a new report on Moroccan banks, an improved version of the two previous ratings of 2013 and 2016, the…...

Under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God assist, the 6th edition of the Africa Development…

Ghana is seeking $ 750 million negotiated as a syndicated loan from Standard Chartered Plc and Standard Bank Group Ltd,…

The South African firm InvestSure will benefit from an investment of 9.6 million rand mobilized by 4Di Capital of Lireas…

Allianz Africa formalizes its new strategic skills cluster in Africa, according to a statement from the group to Financial afrik.…

AUDA-NEPAD hosts the 3rd Africa CSA Alliance Forum Following the success of the first two Africa Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)…

 The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has made the case for factoring as a viable and sustainable solution to address the…

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) provided a USD 27 million loan to Kikagati Power Company, a Ugandan company specializing…

The Central Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) borrowed $ 985 million from pan-African lending institutions in 2018 to cover commodity imports.…

By Pierre Delval, chronicler. On April 15, 2018, in issue 49 of Financial Afrik, I devoted a full column…