🇳🇬 Stanbic’s FY2025 profit hits N551.7 billion as deposits
** Nigeria's banking sector is entering a pivotal phase in 2025, marked by record profitability at major lenders and intensifying regulatory scrutiny...
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🇳🇬 CBN leverages digital finance to expand access to financial
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is accelerating its push to reshape the country's financial infrastructure through enhanced digital finance regulati...
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🌍 Sudan: Sudan Advances Efforts to Restore Cooperation With
Sudan's engagement with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund represents a critical inflection point for a nation seeking to rebuild after ye...
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🇳🇬 Recapitalisation: 12 insurance firms in tight corner
Nigeria's insurance industry is bracing for significant consolidation as the July 31 recapitalisation deadline approaches, with at least 12 companies ...
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🇿🇦 AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: VBS saga bites again as Irba
The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (Irba) has handed down a landmark disciplinary decision against Sipho Malaba, a former KPMG partner, imp...
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🇿🇦 WHERE TO INVEST: Why disciplined management teams keep
For European investors navigating African equity markets, a persistent temptation exists: chase assets, chase scale, chase the headline numbers. Yet e...
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🇳🇬 Best performing Nigerian stocks for the week ended April
Nigeria's equity market achieved a watershed moment this week, with the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) All-Share Index breaching the 217,000 level for the fi...
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🇰🇪 KRA scraps nil returns for non-income individuals
Kenya's tax authority is implementing two significant regulatory changes that underscore the country's evolving approach to compliance and corporate a...
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🇰🇪 Listed firms' CEOs now face fines, jail time for
Kenya's Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has shifted from voluntary environmental, social, and governance (ESG) frameworks to mandatory enforcement, si...
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🇰🇪 ODPC faults LOLC Kenya over data breach, orders deletion of
Kenya's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has issued a formal enforcement action against LOLC Kenya, a prominent microfinance institut...
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🇳🇬 CWG shareholders approve 70 kobo dividend as company
CWG Plc, a major player in Nigeria's logistics and warehousing sector, has delivered a significant milestone that should capture the attention of Euro...
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🌍 Malawi: Sky-High Hotel Sale Plunges Peter Mutharika Back
Malawi's political landscape has shifted dramatically with the return of Peter Mutharika to the presidency, but his re-entry has been immediately shad...
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🇨🇮 West Africa: Ivorian Lender BICICI Profit Jumps 39 Percent
Ivory Coast's BICICI has delivered a striking earnings report that deserves close attention from European investors tracking West African financial se...
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🇳🇬 DMO allots N3.64 billion in April Savings Bond offer
Nigeria's Debt Management Office (DMO) has allotted ₦3.64 billion (approximately €4.4 million) across its April 2026 Savings Bond offering, signaling ...
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🇳🇬 Ecobank crosses N1 trillion profit in 2025 as treasury
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, West Africa's largest pan-African lender by asset base, has achieved a historic milestone by crossing the N1 trill...
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🇳🇬 Banking the economy that actually exists
Nigeria's banking sector stands at a critical inflection point. For decades, the industry has operated on a narrowly defined business model designed a...
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🇳🇬 Tulupay Announces the Prelaunch of its Pan-African First
Africa's financial services landscape is entering a critical inflection point. Two parallel developments are reshaping how capital flows across the co...
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🇰🇪 Uchumi reveals Sh7.05bn insolvency ahead of first AGM in 8
Uchumi Supermarkets, once East Africa's largest retail chain, has disclosed a staggering Sh7.05 billion (approximately €53 million) insolvency positio...
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🇳🇬 NGX Chairman pushes balanced framework for digital assets
Nigeria's financial regulatory landscape is entering a critical inflection point. The Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX Group), which operates Africa's sec...
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🇳🇬 Binance: CBN closes testimony on alleged hidden operations
**HEADLINE:** CBN's Case Against Binance Intensifies: What Nigeria's Crypto Crackdown Means for European Investors in Africa **ARTICLE:** Nigeria's ...
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