Updates

Best and Worst Performing Markets in Africa

Culled—-Proshare August 4, 2016/TheAnalyst Investors continued to scramble for profits as a way of reducing exposure on the Nigerian bourse, following impressive rally of 16.69% in Q2’16, which puts H1 performance at +3.34% gain. The YTD loss so far in the New Month of August stands at -3.33% after bearish […]

Intern Innovation Challenge

August 4, 2016/MasterCard By Amanda Giola The Mastercard Intern Innovation Challenge brought together interns from our Operations and Technology headquarters in St. Louis for a friendly competition supporting the United Way of Greater St. Louis. The intern teams looked for new and creative ways to encourage community participation in school […]

AfDB makes $9 million equity investment in Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria

August 4, 2016/AfDB The African Development Bank has approved a USD 9 million equity investment (approximately 12% of the fund’s capitalisation) in the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria (FAFIN) to provide expansion capital to agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). FAFIN is a first-generation private equity fund that provides […]