🇰🇪 Investors undervalue banks despite increased earnings
East African banks are experiencing a curious paradox: robust earnings growth coupled with persistent valuation discounts that suggest institutional i...
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🇰🇪 Kenya's Public Finance Crisis Meets Private Sector
Kenya's economic landscape presents a striking contradiction that should concern European investors and entrepreneurs with exposure to the region: whi...
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🇰🇪 How Equity Bank became region's most profitable company
Equity Bank's transformation from a traditional lender into a diversified financial-technology powerhouse represents one of Africa's most significant ...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria’s net domestic credit declined 6.9% to N109trn
Nigeria's financial system is experiencing a significant contraction in domestic credit availability, with Net Domestic Credit (NDC) declining 6.9% ye...
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🇳🇬 Personal pension plan to change face of small businesses
Nigeria's financial sector is entering a critical inflection point. Two recent developments—the rollout of the Personal Pension Plan (PPP) for informa...
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🇪🇹 Too many banks, too little scale
Ethiopia's financial sector stands at a critical inflection point. With over 16 commercial banks competing in a market of 120 million people, the sect...
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🇳🇬 Portfolio-Based Liquidity
Nigeria's private banking sector is undergoing a critical transformation. For the first time, institutional-grade liquidity solutions—once the exclusi...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria's Wealth Management Revolution
Nigeria's financial services landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation. While headline indices like the All-Share Index recently dipped bel...
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🇳🇬 Coronation Infrastructure Fund Wins Nigeria’s Best Invest
Coronation Asset Management's recognition as Nigeria's Best Investment Manager for Private Credit at the 2026 Euromoney Private Banking Awards represe...
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🇳🇬 ‘We could deploy $80 million a year through angel
The global venture capital slowdown has sent shockwaves through emerging markets, but Africa is writing a different story. While institutional VC fund...
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🇳🇬 The State of Africa’s Intelligent Payments Economy
Africa's financial technology landscape has matured significantly over the past decade, but the continent is now entering a critical new phase that go...
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🇳🇬 Africa's Trade and Finance Infrastructure Is Converging
Africa's economic architecture is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Across the continent, three critical shifts are aligning simultaneou...
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🇺🇬 Africa: Afreximbank and Fci to Host Africa Regional Confe
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Factors Chain International (FCI) are converging on Kampala in April 2026 for a landmark regional con...
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🇰🇪 Kingdom Bank hits jackpot with SMEs
Kingdom Bank's 59% year-on-year profit surge to Sh946 million (approximately €7.1 million) represents more than a single institution's financial succe...
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🇰🇪 Diamond Trust Bank net profit rises 21pc to Sh10.7bn
Kenya's banking sector is displaying genuine momentum in 2024, with mid-sized lenders reporting earnings growth that significantly outpaces broader ...
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🇳🇬 Nigerian ETFs rebound as Meristem funds surge over 30%
Nigeria's exchange-traded fund market delivered a compelling signal of renewed investor confidence this week, with the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) recordi...
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🇳🇬 BREAKING: NGX lifts suspension on Zichis Agro-Allied Shar
The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) has restored trading in Zichis Agro-Allied Industries Plc following a regulatory suspension that lasted approximately one ...
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🇳🇬 Verve International Deepens Ecosystem Partnerships at Ver
Africa's payments landscape is undergoing a critical inflection point. As digital transaction volumes across the continent surge past $2 trillion annu...
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🌍 Namibia: Namibian Pension Funds Seek Clarity As Fima May
Namibia's pension sector is entering uncertain territory as the Financial Institutions and Markets Act (FIMA)—a sweeping regulatory framework designed...
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🇳🇬 RMB Nigeria shines at the 2025 West Africa DealMakers Awa
Rand Merchant Bank Nigeria (RMB) has solidified its position as West Africa's premier transaction advisor following a dominant performance at the 2025...
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