Africa’s Biggest Bank Turns To Fintech To Extend Lending To Informal Businesses
February 10th, 2022
Via Impact Alpha, a look at how Africa’s biggest bank is turning to fintech to extend lending to informal businesses: It may take the threat of a fintech disruption to get local commercial banks focused on lending for micro and small businesses in Africa and other emerging markets. Fintech startups and local fund managers have recently […]
Read more »Kenyan Flower Exports In Full Bloom
December 23rd, 2021
Via Logistics Update Africa, a report on Kenya’s cut flower industry: With a perfect all-year growing climate, affordable labour and access to temperature-controlled air freight, Kenya has all the ingredients to become one of the top flower producers in the world. For an emerging nation like Kenya, being the third-largest exporter of cut flowers in […]
Read more »African Nations Make Do as China Tightens Belt and Road
December 6th, 2021
Via Reuters, an article on China’s decreased appetite for BRI financing in Africa: Deep in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, members of the National Youth Service tirelessly swing machetes to clear dense shrubs obscuring railway tracks more than a century old. It’s a distinctly low-tech phase for China’s Belt and Road drive in Africa to create […]
Read more »Attractive Frontier Markets (According To Citi)
January 12th, 2019
Via CNBC Africa, a report on frontier markets: Egypt, Kenya and Romania come out as most attractive Frontier Markets (FM), while Kazakhstan, Vietnam and Morocco come out least attractive. Here is what the model says about the top 3: ? Egypt leads the pack thanks to a host of supportive signals, including valuations (PE and […]
Read more »Private Equity Looks To East Africa For Investment Opportunities
June 20th, 2017
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how – with Nigeria in economic recession – global buyout groups are searching for deals in Kenya: Buyout groups investing in Africa are turning east and shunning the oil-rich western part of the continent as they grapple with the effect of low commodity prices on private equity’s final […]
Read more »East Africa Petroleum Production
September 5th, 2016
Via The East African, an interesting graphic on oil and gas production schedules for East Africa
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