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South Africa’s Shoprite looks beyond Africa to Eastern Europe

12/4/2017/Reuters By TJ Strydom and Wendell Roelf Africa’s biggest grocery retailer Shoprite is considering a push into Eastern Europe, where it hopes to use knowledge gleaned from former suitor Steinhoff International, its new CEO told Reuters. The move signals a change in strategy for Shoprite under Chief Executive Pieter Engelbrecht, […]

Unilever Nigeria to seek approval next month for $200 mln share sale

12/4/2017/Reuters Unilever Nigeria said on Wednesday it will seek shareholder approval next month to raise 63 billion naira ($200 million) through a rights issue. The household products maker also said it would seek approval to increase its authorised share capital to 5 billion naira by creating an additional 3.95 billion […]

Building The Infrastructure To Realise FinTech’s Promise – Speech by Mark Carney

Culled—Proshare Wednesday, April 12, 2017  06.53PM / Mark Carney, Governor, Bank of England Given at the International FinTech Conference 2017, Old Billingsgate. In this speech, the Governor also announced that applications to the Accelerator are now open again and gave details of the types of technologies the BOE is interested in. Introduction It’s […]