Wealth and Asset Management

Barclays Bank Seychelles to Begin Blue-to-Red Transformation Into Absa

Standard Bank banks top accolades at Private Banker International Global Wealth Awards

Ocorian expands African footprint with new East African office

A Royal encounter: Sanlam's brush with the Sussexes, and why the Queen is the ultimate family business CEO

HSBC forecasts economic slowdown in Q4, rules out recession

High net worth investors look offshore

Executive Moves

Jersey firm picks ex-JP Morgan head to lead Nairobi wealth unit

KCB axes 6 directors from National Bank board

Investec Asset Management appoints new SA Equity and Balanced strategies co-portfolio manager

JOBS: These large companies are looking for new staff – including Mr Price, Sanlam, and Nedbank

Reshuffle at the top for UniCredit

Akin Gump appoints Africa-focused private equity partner in London

Legal

Twice-fired CEO wants Old Mutual directors jailed for six months

Credit ombud fired over R850 000, faces criminal complaint

‘Fraudsters hacked bank server, stole Flour Mill’s N752m’

R415 million laundered using Bitcoin and South African ‘money mules’

Ex-Credit Suisse Bankers Will Testify in Mozambique Bribery Case

Mozambique: Ex-CS bankers appointed as witnesses

FinTech

Are You Safe From Cybercrime?

Orange Business Services strikes ‘gold’ in SA

Digital jobs: a solution to Nigeria’s unemployment crisis

Blockchain invites applications for third conference in Ghana

How Bitcoin Is Increasingly Used by Millennials to Boost Africa’s Growth

Insuring against cyberattacks

Retail Banking

Equatorial Guinea signs Lusophone Compact: new milestone in initiative to accelerate sustainable private sector development

FNB offers entrepreneurs free business banking, learning hub

Equity’s Pan-African growth plan on course with BanABC takeover

Wema Bank, BoA Group sign multi-currency pact

FNB launches digital entrepreneurship programme in South Africa

Bank cards use grows 25pc in eight months

Investment Banking

Absa arranges first US dollar social bond issued by an African corporate

Barclays Ghana explores trade opportunities in China & Turkey for Ghanaian SMEs

Absa appointed joint bookrunner in Africa’s first US dollar corporate social bond

South Africa's Absa Plans China Office in Asia Investment Banking Expansion

Lori expands pan-African footprint with new Nigerian operations

Barclays to fund buyers of Centum apartments

Alternative Investments

MWANGI: 35 years on, Equity Bank keeps faith in ‘small customers’

How South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment Initiative Empowered the Powerful

NSE records N20bn midweek decline

Shariah bank DIB expands with new branch in Eastleigh

IMF lowers South Africa’s growth forecast for 2019 to a paltry 0.7%

Equity’s Pan-African growth plan on course with BanABC takeover

Comment, Analysis & Research

Overhaul looms for SA’s auditors

African Export-Import Bank plans to float on London Stock Exchange

Offshore investing … let’s get practical

Government hints at plans for pension funds and prescribed assets to help boost South Africa’s economy

Women In Leadership Event - Conversation with Dr Mary Okelo

South Africa: Why Discovery Needs to Become Boring

Tax

Total Tax Contribution of the Kenya banking sector report launched

Andersen Global Enters Cameroon, Marking 18th Country in Africa

Kenya tax amnesty hits Mauritius-based banks

Twelve firms shortlisted at South African FinTech contest

Taxation in the Era of Global Information Exchange

Taxman to deploy customs officers across East Africa

Regulation,Tax & Compliance

Former Credit Suisse banker kept $45m in bribes hidden in Mozambican loan scheme

Giving force to Nigeria’s data protection regulation

Emerging trends in pensions sector

Ethiopia to use funds from partial privatisation to pay down debt

Wells Fargo Must Offer 66 Jobs to People It Rejected in 2014

KRA to appeal ruling barring DCI probe on tax defaulters

ESG

There’s never been a better time to invest in a better world, says Sanlam Investments

African financial centres step up efforts on green and sustainable finance

African Development Bank, Climate Investment Funds and the Coalition for Green Capital to develop Green financing instruments for Africa

ADB, CGC to develop Green financing instruments for Africa

AfDB commits US$12,5bn to climate change

Africa’s Mineral Wealth May Just have to Stay in the Ground to Protect a Changing Climate