🇰🇪 Standard Chartered targets key sectors in new financing push
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya has signalled a strategic shift toward sustainable financing, directing substantial capital toward manufacturing, health...
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🇲🇦 Visa, Switch Al Maghrib Partner to Combat Payment Fraud
Morocco's payments landscape is undergoing a critical transformation. The partnership between Visa and Switch Al Maghrib—the Kingdom's domestic paymen...
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🇳🇬 Best performing Nigerian stocks for the week ended March
Nigeria's stock exchange closed the week of March 27, 2026 with modest losses, a pullback that contrasts sharply with broader optimism sweeping across...
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🇳🇬 FPI dominance brings rewards and risks
Nigeria's capital markets received a substantial injection of $6.443 billion during the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the National Bureau of St...
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🇳🇬 SKLD Integrated launches N7.5 billion commercial paper
SKLD Integrated Services Limited, a diversified Nigerian services provider, has launched a N7.5 billion commercial paper issuance under its N10 billio...
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🇳🇬 Lasaco Assurance opens N18.47 billion rights issue to boo
Lasaco Assurance Plc has launched an N18.47 billion rights issue, marking a significant capital restructuring move within Nigeria's competitive insura...
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🇳🇬 FCMB blocks N2.4 billion cyber heist, recovers majority o
First City Monument Bank (FCMB), one of Nigeria's systemically important financial institutions with assets exceeding $6 billion, successfully interce...
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🇳🇬 EFCC says crypto illicit transactions hit $160 billion gl
Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sounded a stark warning that should resonate across European investment portfolios expos...
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🇳🇬 Banks Race to Meet CBN Recapitalisation Deadline
Nigeria's banking sector stands at an inflection point. With the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) recapitalisation deadline arriving within days, the c...
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🇳🇬 NDIC assures deposit safety, no reliance on government ba
Nigeria's banking sector received a significant credibility boost this week with formal clarification from the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (...
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🇪🇬 Afreximbank to Hold Its 33rd Annual Meetings in El Alamein
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has confirmed its 33rd Annual Meetings will take place in El Alamein, Egypt, from 21-24 June 2026—a decis...
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🇳🇬 PENCOM mobilises traders, others for personal pension sch
Nigeria's National Pension Commission (PENCOM) has intensified its push to expand voluntary pension enrolment beyond formal sector workers, launching ...
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🇳🇬 CBN assembles SANs, appeals court ruling on Union Bank ta
Nigeria's Central Bank has escalated its fight to retain control of Union Bank of Nigeria, assembling a team of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to ...
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🇿🇦 Africa Bitcoin Corporation crosses 5 BTC mark as treasury
Africa Bitcoin Corporation (ABC) has reached a significant milestone by accumulating over 5 BTC in its corporate treasury—a symbolic threshold that ma...
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🇳🇬 FG opens registration to train 10 million Nigerians on fi
Nigeria's Federal Government has launched an unprecedented financial literacy initiative targeting 10 million citizens, signaling a structural shift...
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🇿🇦 Agilitee Completes Reverse Merger With U.S. Company
Agilitee, a South African technology firm, is advancing toward a transformative reverse merger with an unnamed U.S. counterpart, with completion expec...
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🇳🇬 Kuda lays off hundreds of staff across departments in res
Nigeria's digital banking sector is experiencing a critical inflection point. Kuda Bank, one of Africa's most prominent fintech unicorns, has executed...
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🇳🇬 Nigerian Eurobonds to deliver double-digit returns in 2026
Nigeria's debt markets are sending a compelling signal to European investors seeking exposure to African sovereign credit: double-digit Eurobond retur...
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🇳🇬 Africa's Digital Finance Boom Creates €Billions in Invest
The global financial landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, and Africa stands at the epicenter of this transformation. With mobile money accounts su...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria: Financial inclusion
Nigeria's federal government has officially launched a mass enrollment campaign targeting 10 million citizens for free financial inclusion and literac...
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