Category: Investing

The Bank of England’s threat of negative interest rates will encourage market-wise investors to increase their exposure to UK stocks, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations.

Global foreign investment plummeted to historic lows in 2020 as Covid-19 forced investors to push the brakes on expansion plans. 

Despite receiving support from international institutions, Yaounde recorded its worst economic performance in two decades.

Djibouti, Djibouti//- In spite of the particularly challenging international economic situation arising from the health crisis, the Republic of Djibouti has entered the year 2021 with determination.

A Sudanese bank has become the country’s first financial institution to obtain a Mastercard payments licence allowing customers to make global transactions for the first time in history.

Biden’s expected regulatory changes will push environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing “to become the ultimate megatrend,” states the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organisations.

Washington, US// — Economic inclusion programs, which help boost income and assets of the world’s poorest, are on the rise in 75 countries, reaching approximately 20 million poor and vulnerable households, and benefitting nearly 92 million individuals.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world’s economies to stall. While some individual companies have experienced unprecedented booms, the World Economic Forum predicts that global growth in 2020 will fall by 4.9%.

Abuja, Nigeria//-The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released globally by Transparency International (TI) today showed that Nigeria yet again, records a decline in the CPI in 2020.

African policy-makers and business leaders are worried about challenges to global growth amidst rising case of the coronavirus and problems in vaccine distribution.