January 30, 2026/US Federal Reserve By Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman Good morning, and thank you for the invitation to join you today.1 It is a pleasure to be with you for the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking’s 161st Assembly for Bank Directors. Before we get started on […]
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The Africa Energy Bank Effect: How the Africa Energy Bank is Re-Writing the Frontier Investment Playbook
As global upstream capital tightens, the Africa Energy Bank is stepping in to unlock risk capital, crowd in partners and accelerate frontier exploration across Africa’s oil and gas sector January 30, 2026/African Energy Chamber While global exploration and production capital expenditure is set to reach $504 billion in 2026, the […]
Nigeria’s Growing Role in Global Development Procurement
January 30, 2026/CSL Update Nigerian firms securing over 6,800 World Bank–financed contracts valued at approximately US$2.5 billion in the past five years, the country is increasingly transitioning from a passive recipient of development aid to an active participant in the global procurement ecosystem. The concentration of these contracts in critical […]
