By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday said cross-border holdings of securities climbed up nine percent (9%) to $46.7 trillion for 2013 year end according to the Fund’s Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS) in the review period. The IMF said 74 economies submitted end-December 2013 […]

World Bank Group says Nigeria is one of the most expensive and difficult places to register and acquire property for businesses in the world. This was contained in the findings of Word Bank Group entitled Doing Business in Nigeria 2014  and subtitled Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises which […]

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday said its encouraging further improvements in the risk assessment, including by expanding the coverage of stress tests to the non-bank sector. This is coming on the heels of completion of a periodic review of […]