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Review of Sub-Saharan Africa Investment Banking performance for the first half of 2020.
One of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, Refinitiv has released a recent report on Sub-Saharan Africa Investment Banking ...
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Global digital population hits 4.5Billion
About 4.57 billion people were active users of the internet in April 2020. With Covid-19 confining within the four walls of their rooms ...
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Bank equities see plunge in Thailand
Banking equities have become the worst-performing sector in Thailand’s stock market, with the aggregate share price plummeting by 35% year-to-date as asset quality ...
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How bailout debt is painting governments and central banks into a corner
Regardless of who wins the US presidential election, the next leader will start his term with record government debt. The pandemic has dealt ...
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African mobile users pay nearly three times the global average for voice calls and internet
The recurring theme of mobile internet prices is that while they are dropping globally, they are not dropping fast enough in Africa. The resulting ...
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The enormous opportunity in Global the fintech Market
Fintech has dominated the news cycle this year. Bold headlines celebrated large exits (Plaid, Credit Karma, Personal Capital) and venture-capital investment poured in. While the category ...
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Majority of UK early stage fintechs have cash runway of just six months
Nearly 70% of smaller UK fintech companies have a cash runway of just six months or less and 77% are worried about their ...
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These are the most common banking scams in South Africa
The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) has released its annual crime report for 2019, showing that the weak state of the ...
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63% of Agents run out of Cash, 66% do not have access to loan – EFInA Survey
80% of Agent’s business negatively impacted 73% profit margin 72% of Agents afraid of getting infected The 2020 Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access ...
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PwC Survey reveals huge Access to finance gap for MSMEs
A recent PwC Nigeria survey report on MSMEs, PwC’s MSME Survey 2020- Building to last has revealed that about 60% of the informal ...