A multimillion-dollar business marriage between a Zimbabwean bank and the Small Business Credit Guarantee Trust (SBCGT) is on the cards, following a short courtship.

The Central Bank of Kenya will not intervene to stem the rising inflation which it says was sparked by the post-election violence.

MRS JACINTA MWATELA, who was replaced on Tuesday as deputy governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, is an extraordinary banker and public officer. Her story and record of service at the CBK offers an illuminating study on what personal

STANDARD Bank Namibia has donated N$125 000 to the Youth Entrepreneurship Seminars (YES) Trust for its financial literacy project for school pupils.

NMB Bank's efforts to fill the void created by the foreign currency fraud are beginning to bear fruit as the bank realised an $18,2 quadrillion profit after tax rising from $2,8 quadrillion for the six months ending June 30 2008.

A BANK from Zimbabwe will inject N$100 million to set up a bank in Namibia to serve local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in partnership with an existing business credit guarantee trust, which falls under the Ministry of Trade and

For more than 90 minutes, he held his audience spell bound. Nobel laureate, US-trained Bangladeshi economist, and acclaimed 'Banker to the Poor', Professor Mohammad Yunus, hit the nail on the head on the case of Nigerian stakeholders in the microfinance

As part of measures to encourage savings culture in the country, BankPHB has introduced new promotion that would give its existing and potential customers chances of winning up to eight new cares as well as other attractive prizes.

No fewer than 20,000 Nigerians have won various gifts in the on going 'Save and Fly' promotion organised by Fidelity Bank Plc to mark its 20th anniversary in business.

A Federal high court sitting in Abuja yesterday refused an invitation by former Managing Director (MD) of Wema Bank Plc, Mr Adebisi Omoyeni to issue an interim order stopping Mr Layi Alabi from acting as the bank's MD.

Insurance companies may have to play catch to satisfy demands from Uganda Insurance Commission, the industry regulator, that workers take up professional qualifications.

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday formally inaugurated the country's newest commercial bank, Banco Terra (Land Bank), the first Mozambican bank that will focus specifically on agriculture and the countryside.

The Nigeria's foreign reserves have appreciated by $2 billion, moving upward from $60 billion last week to $62 billion yesterday. Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) attributed the appreciation to the inflow and outflow in the movement of reserves.

AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) treasurer-general Mathews Phosa says there should be less concern about adding another 5% to the black economic empowerment (BEE) ownership of major financial institutions, and more focus on making BEE truly broad-based.

All salaried workers will with effect from July next year be required to pay for the new National Social Health Insurance Scheme, the government announced yesterday.

Co-operative Bank will present its documentation to the Capital Markets Authority this week as a first step in seeking approval for its forthcoming initial public offering.

Government ministries involved in infrastructure development have been asked to improve the energy and road network to Lamu to boost its tourism profile.

THE Democratic Alliance's (DA's) call for an investigation into the participation of iLima Projects in the Gautrain project has been heeded by the Gautrain Management Agency.

A former official of government has suggested that the administration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf should halt all further reviews, negotiations and determinations appertaining to the award of management contract in the Liberia Maritime Program pending a full investigation of the

THE Anambra State Executive Council has described as worrisome the condition of federal roads in the state and had directed the state Ministry of Works to compile and document all the bad and failed portions of the federal roads in