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President Adesina announces gender innovation contest to promote gender equality in AfDB’s operations

9/3/2017/AfDB The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced on International Women’s Day the launch of a major gender competition in order to promote gender equality in its operations. “Following the successful internal idea competition in 2016 or ‘INNOPitch’, I am today officially launching in partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a […]

Deutsche Bank’s Qatar, China Investors Said to Back Rights Offer

8/3/2017/Bloomberg Qatari royals, HNA said to consider boosting stakes in bank Stock is down about 10% since share sale plan reported Friday Qatar’s royal family and China’s HNA Group Co., two of Deutsche Bank AG’s biggest investors, plan to buy shares in the lender’s 8 billion-euro ($8.4 billion) rights offer […]

UBA, Orange Group collaborate on payment system

Kennedy Uzoka, Group Managing Director/CEO at United Bank for Africa Plc 9/3/2017/Punch ’Femi Asu Pan-African financial services group, United Bank for Africa Plc, and Orange Group have announced a strategic partnership to deliver innovative financial services across Africa. The lender said in a statement on Wednesday that it had reached […]