OPINION/EDITORIAL

Connecting people with finance: new digital core in banks

Traditional banks need to quickly build a new digital core based on open and distributed technologies October 5, 2020/Huawei Enterprise. By Vincent Chen In the banking industry, the stable running of IT systems is imperative. This is what drove the industry to begin IT construction relatively early and what continues […]

Shifting the Appetite of Nigerian Investors: From Savings to Mutual Funds

October 5, 2020/Coronation Report Mutual Funds are growing rapidly and are quickly becoming the default destination for Nigerians’ savings. Just as the Pension Funds began to take off a decade ago, now Mutual Funds are growing fast. The total value of Money Market funds rose by 11% and Fixed Income […]

Off the Cliff – Sub-Saharan African Update

Culled—Proshare October 5, 2020 by Vetiva Research Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic remains a key threat to the growth of several economies in 2020. With advanced economies recording double digit contractions in Q2’20 despite the presence of automatic stabilizers, many developing economies had pressing pre-pandemic issues that restrained their capacity […]