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Afreximbank launches African Trade Report 2025

Afreximbank launches African Trade Report 2025

Source: © Anglo American Kumba Anglo American has had a strong start to the financial year with copper and iron ore the star performers for the first quarter ended 31 March 2025

Copper and iron ore give Anglo American a strong start to the year

24 Apr 2025

Pictures: Aida Diarra, senior vice president and head of sub-Saharan Africa at Visa with Clayton Hayward, group CEO of EFTCorp. Together they have formed a five year partnership to enhance financial inclusion in Africa (Image supplied)

Visa invests $1bn to grow financial inclusion in Africa, partners with EFTCorp

28 Oct 2024

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20 May 2025

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21 Nov 2024

Botswana accounting and finance professionals awarded the CGMA designation

AICPA & CIMA Botswana accounting and finance professionals awarded the CGMA designation

26 Sep 2024

Banking and brews: South Africa's top brands navigate economic challenges

Kantar Banking and brews: South Africa's top brands navigate economic challenges

20 Aug 2024

Why over 350 organisations share their news via a Biz Press Office

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19 Aug 2024

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Nigeria's banking brands dominate

26 May 2025

Source: G20 South Africa - @g20org

South Africa makes historic leap as first African nation to head the G20

Katja Hamilton 3 Dec 2024

2024 AABLA Business Leader of the year: African Bank's CEO, Kennedy G Bungane

2024 AABLA Business Leader of the year: African Bank's CEO, Kennedy G Bungane

28 Oct 2024

Source: © WPP Despite third-quarter results showing a strong performance from GroupM and WPP's winning of the Amazon media account, the network's expectations for the full year remain unchanged

Strong Q3 performance for WPP; full year expectations remain unchanged

23 Oct 2024

Source: © The Media Leader In a move termed, "an excellent outcome for WPP" by Mark Read, WPP CEO, WPP will sell its entire majority stake in FGS Global

WPP sells majority stake in FGS Global to Bidco Inc - An excellent outcome for WPP

7 Aug 2024

Inaugural Supply Chain Business Forum and Exhibition

Inaugural Supply Chain Business Forum and Exhibition

27 Jun 2024

Image supplied. Last year's African Banker Award. the African Banker magazine’s African Banker Awards nominees have been announced for this year

3 women nominees for African Banker Awards Banker of the Year

7 May 2024

A man poses with a handful of Zimbabwean dollars at a bank in central Harare, 15 June 2015. Zimbabweans began exchanging old notes of local dollars for US dollars, as President Robert Mugabe's government seeks to officially bury the worthless currency. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

Zimbabwe launches gold-backed currency to replace battered local dollar

Nyasha Chingono 5 Apr 2024

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Japan slides into recession

15 Feb 2024

Source: 123RF.

Gold rush for green: Africa poised to seize opportunity for clean technology leadership

NJ Ayuk 1 Jan 2024

Source: © 123rf For the first time journalists can now submit entries in any category of the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism

Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism open for entries

6 Dec 2023

Source: Reuters.

Saudi Arabia to sign deals worth over $500m with African nations -minister

Aziz El Yaakoubi 10 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Belgium drafting new fuel quality law targeting exports to Africa

3 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Africa-US trade programme needs at least 10-year extension, AU says

Joe Bavier 3 Nov 2023

Source: © 123rf The annual Africa Business Media Innovators (ABMI) Forum 2023 will take place from 30 October to 1 November in Cape Town

Bloomberg's Annual Africa Business Media Innovators Forum 2023 set for Cape Town

16 Oct 2023

Source: Reuters. Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, addresses the media on the fourth day of the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, following last month's deadly earthquake, in Marrakech, Morocco.

Cautious welcome: World Bank and IMF return to Africa, but questions remain

Carlos Lopes 12 Oct 2023

Source: Supplied.

Standard Bank's inaugural nature-conservation loan powers Wilderness' market expansion

11 Oct 2023

Source: Supplied.

Is Mauritian banking transforming sub-Saharan Africa's economic landscape internationally?

Thavin Audit 4 Oct 2023

A view shows rubble in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Talat N'yaaqoub, Morocco, 11 September 2023. Reuters/Hannah McKay

Morocco wants IMF-World Bank meetings to proceed despite quake

David Lawder 12 Sep 2023

Source: Afreximbank.

Afreximbank and China Development Bank forge $400m loan pact for African SME support

29 Aug 2023

Source: Supplied. SA President Cyril Ramaphosa in a pull-aside meeting with UN Secretary General HE António Guterres on the margins of the Brics-Africa Outreach and Brics Plus Dialogue which took place at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.

#BRICS2023 triumph: The week that shaped inclusive global dialogue

Katja Hamilton 25 Aug 2023

Source: United Nations. UN Secretary-General, António Guterres.

#BRICS2023: UN Secretary-General calls for African seat on Security Council

Katja Hamilton 25 Aug 2023

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#BRICS2023: Putin's pledge: A path to food security in Africa

Katja Hamilton 23 Aug 2023

Source: African Rainbow Energy. Patrice Motsepe, Brics Business Council chairperson.

#BRICS2023: Brics Business Council chair urges swift implementation of AfCFTA

23 Aug 2023

Source: TV Brics.

Naledi Pandor announces SA's readiness to host 15th Brics Summit

10 Aug 2023

Source: Reuters.

Dollar shrugs off Fitch's US credit rating downgrade

Rae Wee 2 Aug 2023

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