Updates

Afreximbank Says Africa Must Raise Factoring Volumes to at Least €240 Billion to Support SME Led Transformation

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 […]

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 […]