Africa’s factoring volumes have more than doubled in recent years, increasing from €21.6 billion in 2017 to €50 billion in 2024, and with nearly 200 factoring companies now operating across the continent December 9, 2025/Afreximbank Afreximbank has highlighted the critical importance of factoring and supply chain finance (SCF) in narrowing […]
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Weekly Investment View, December 8- 12, 2025
December 8, 2025/United Capital Update Global Markets: United States In the United States (US), private employers cut 32,000 jobs in November, marking the largest monthly decline in over two and a half years as small businesses scaled back their workforce. Despite this, the services sector remained resilient, with the November […]
Africa Loses Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to Exclusion: New Campaign Urges Leaders to Do More
December 8, 2025/ADF Excluding people with disabilities costs African economies hundreds of billions in lost GDP every year. The figure is based on International Labour Organization estimates that low and middle-income countries lose between 3% and 7% of their GDP due to the exclusion of persons with disabilities from the workforce. Applied […]

