October First Consulting, an Australian communication firm, has concluded plans to launch targeted awareness campaign for Nigeria's investments and trade opportunities in Australia, New Zealand and other Asia-Pacific nations.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector funding wing of the World Bank, announced on Tuesday that it has signed with the Mozambican government an investment programme to develop the tourism sector in the country.
A young man was shot and killed when thousands of Somalis protested in Mogadishu on Monday over food traders' refusal to take old currency notes amid spiralling inflation, witnesses said.
THE world's central bankers are a close-knit club, given to fads and fashions. In the early 1980s, they fell under the spell of monetarism, a simplistic economic theory promoted by Milton Friedman. After monetarism was discredited -- at great cost
TWO high-ranking former Saambou Bank officials who faced charges related to the bank's collapse in 2002 were discharged yesterday when Pretoria High Court Judge Willem van der Merwe found they had no case to answer.
NEDBANK Group, SA's fourth-biggest bank, said yesterday that its credit-loss ratio for the first quarter of this year had ballooned and there was no sign of respite as high interest rates hurt consumers and economic growth slowed.
MASS-market lender African Bank Investments slashed the net asset value of Ellerine Holdings, which it acquired in January, by R450m after impairments for bad loans at the furniture retailer worsened, CEO Leon Kirkinis said yesterday.
DESPITE the turbulence in the global financial markets, the appetite for private equity opportunities in SA continued to grow relative to the mature markets overseas, an industry survey has revealed.
Five Namibian estate agents will travel to Thailand on an incentive trip sponsored by First National Bank Namibia for their business contribution to the bank.
