Author: InvestAdvocate

Microfinance banks to get trust fund in Q2

By Tope Adepetu The National Association of Microfinance Banks, Lagos chapter, has said that its members will start having access to the Microfinance Trust Fund set up by the state chapter from the second quarter of this year. The acting Chairman, NAMB, Lagos State, Mr. Olufemi Babajide, said this in […]

SEC market-abuse chief takes trader-based approach

  By Nick Paraskeva – Fri Feb 25 NEW YORK, February 25 (Complinet) – The Securities and ExchangeCommission market-abuse unit is using new approaches to in an effort to better identify insider trading and abusive conduct by market professionals. Unit Chief Daniel Hawke said the SEC is using a trader-based approach to […]

S’Africa to issue R135bn in bonds, calls in foreign investors

By Agency Reporter South Africa plans to issue R135bn of government bonds in the domestic debt market this year to help cover its budget deficit, the National Treasury’s Head of Asset and Liability Management, Mr. Lungisa Fuzile, said on Thursday. Fuzile also told Reuters that the bond market might have […]