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Has investments in digital payments in Africa come of age?

Mergers & Acquisitions

Kenyan headquartered DPO Group to be acquired by Dubai based Network International for $288 Million

by Kimani Chege

By the time Safaricom launched M-Pesa payments in 2007, the market for digital payment in Africa was barely scratched. With...

A kiosk on a street corner. Small-business owners and young entrepreneurs in Africa will be trained to trade with other African countries as part of the new AfCFTA. www.theexchange.africa

Small businesses, young entrepreneurs key to AfCFTA success

An artisan at work. Financing SMEs could be the basis for consecutive impressive East African economic outlook. www.theexchange.africa

Financing SMEs: Basis for impressive economic outlook

Manufacturing equipment. The EAC plans on transforming MSMEs to contribute at least 50% of manufacturing GDP from the current 20% base rate. www.theexchange.africa

EAC priming MSMEs to hit GDP growth targets

Coffee beans. The EAC should invest in SMEs since they are critical contributors to GDP growth of the region which mainly exports agricultural commodities in raw form. www.theexchange.africa

Increasing EAC SME visibility major boost for region’s economy

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Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL)- The Exchange

Tanzania Aviation Industry: How high can Tanzania Fly

August 14, 2019

Kenya's ailing retailer Tuskys shareholders opt for equity investor

Industry and Trade

Kenya’s ailing retailer Tuskys shareholders opt for equity investor

TRA wins case against Vodacom

TRA wins case against Vodacom

African Development Bank grants $25m to Somalia

African Development Bank grants $25m to Somalia

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The Mara Wildebeest migration- The Exchange

Beyond the pandemic: Cushioning Kenya’s tourism sector

President Kenyatta with County governors

President Kenyatta puts more measures in place to curb spread of virus

Why businesses should invest in promoting global peace

Why businesses should invest in promoting global peace

Industry & Trade

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Mergers & Acquisition

Has investments in digital payments in Africa come of age?

Mergers & Acquisitions

Kenyan headquartered DPO Group to be acquired by Dubai based Network International for $288 Million

by Kimani Chege

By the time Safaricom launched M-Pesa payments in 2007, the market for digital payment in Africa was barely scratched. With...

Regional Markets

Money Deals

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Risk: The New Normal?!

One of the oddest by-products of the Covid-19 pandemic is...

Tanzanian money (World Atlas)- The Exchange

How well are you prepared for pay cut amidst the Global pandemic?

The job market is ever dynamic; continuously changing as a result...

by Maureen Murori

Cybercrime- cyber security (Freepik)

Exponential Growth in Cyber Security Risks in East Africa

In this column called “The Indicator,” we will be taking...

E-vouchers could help transform agriculture and increase food security in Africa. The e-vouchers are used to purchase farm inputs helping support smallholder farmers access capital.

How E-vouchers can enhance Africa’s food security

With such an initiative, smallholder farmers who suffer the brunt...

by Njenga Hakeenah

Sub-Saharan Africa M&A transactions and fees declined in Q1 2020. Africatel Holdings’ US$1.0 billion sale of PT Ventures to Angolan Sonangol in January was the largest deal in the region during the first quarter of 2020. www.theexchange.africa

Sub-Saharan Africa M&A transactions, fees decline in Q1 2020

Investment banking fees in Sub-Saharan Africa reached an estimated US$128.2...

by Njenga Hakeenah

Highlights

Kenyan headquartered DPO Group to be acquired by Dubai based Network International for $288 Million

Small businesses, young entrepreneurs key to AfCFTA success

Financing SMEs: Basis for impressive economic outlook

EAC priming MSMEs to hit GDP growth targets

Increasing EAC SME visibility major boost for region’s economy

Innovative funding for Kenyan SMEs to keep businesses booming

Rwanda to benefit from Mastercard USD2.5m tourism recovery funding

Trending Posts

Kenyan travel-tech HotelOnline on major onslaught of the African market

Kenyan travel-tech HotelOnline on major onslaught of the African market

July 1, 2020

Aga Khan Health Services - The Exchange

What the Pandemic is teaching us about Health System Readiness

July 16, 2020

What Tanzania’s 2020/2021 budget says

June 15, 2020

Can East Africa leapfrog to a circular economy?

Industry and Trade

Can East Africa leapfrog to a circular economy?

July 10, 2020

New trend in integrity among Kenya's private sector

African Entrepreneurship

New trend in integrity among Kenya’s private sector

July 7, 2020

Opinion

What the Pandemic is teaching us about Health System Readiness

Aga Khan Health Services - The Exchange

With more than 11 million confirmed cases and over 530,000 deaths globally, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating...

Tech & Biz

More than 600 million Africans will benefit from a mobile-based tool for two-way health information and communication between citizens and governments. ACIP provides user-generated survey data and actionable health and economic insights. www.theexchange.africa

Tech & Business

M-Pesa of health targets 800 million African mobile subscribers

by Njenga Hakeenah

ACIP offers a unique opportunity to change the way disease surveillance is conducted enhancing the ability to acquire good and...

E-vouchers could help transform agriculture and increase food security in Africa. The e-vouchers are used to purchase farm inputs helping support smallholder farmers access capital.

Tech & Business

The economy is mobile: How Uganda’s digital environment is working

by Njenga Hakeenah

Uganda’s real GDP growth is projected to hover below 2 per cent in 2020 compared with the almost 5.6 per...

A class in session using the BRCK tabs. BRCK has invested in digital classrooms where opportunities are given to children in preparation for what the tech future holds. www.theexchange.africa

Tech & Business

Future of Work: Africa should rethink its education, skills

by Njenga Hakeenah

Digital education in Africa is a precondition for the continent's socio-economic transformation and the survival of its people.

A data centre. The current pandemic challenge is throwing the need for local infrastructure to provide rapid, high-availability data centre services in Africa into sharp relief. www.theexchange.africa

Tech & Business

Jobs automation in East Africa, the risk of unemployment

by Njenga Hakeenah

Most workers in East Africa fall in these primary and secondary sectors with a high risk of automation.

Investing

A kiosk on a street corner. Small-business owners and young entrepreneurs in Africa will be trained to trade with other African countries as part of the new AfCFTA. www.theexchange.africa

Economic Growth

Small businesses, young entrepreneurs key to AfCFTA success

Accounting for about 16 per cent of the world's human...

by Njenga Hakeenah

An artisan at work. Financing SMEs could be the basis for consecutive impressive East African economic outlook. www.theexchange.africa

Economic Growth

Financing SMEs: Basis for impressive economic outlook

The economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has slowed...

by Njenga Hakeenah

Manufacturing equipment. The EAC plans on transforming MSMEs to contribute at least 50% of manufacturing GDP from the current 20% base rate. www.theexchange.africa

Economic Growth

EAC priming MSMEs to hit GDP growth targets

Agribusinesses in the EAC member states are expected to benefit...

by Njenga Hakeenah

Must Read

Is there hope for infrastructure projects in Kenya in the wake of COVID-19?

Is there hope for infrastructure projects in Kenya in the wake of COVID-19?

$200m for Agriculture Sector in Africa

$200m for Agriculture Sector in Africa

KAM Chair Mr Sachen Gudka speaks during the High Level Manufacturing Economic Forum

Kenya’s manufacturing sector gears up for the reopening of the economy

Dar Rapid Transit (DART)- Tanzania Investment- The Exchange

World Bank funds infrastructure in Eastern and Southern Africa

Africa’s food security relies on climate smart agriculture

Africa’s food security relies on climate smart agriculture

Gold futures decrease as global economies try to recover - The Exchange

Gold price slightly down against dollar

Mergers & Acqusition

Octagon Africa Group CEO Fred Waswa. He says the firm is delighted to mark such an historic moment in buying out Alexander Forbes business in Zambia. www.theexchange.africa

Alexander Forbes sells stake in Zambia as revenues shrink

January 10, 2020

How merged law firms plan to take on Africa

November 11, 2019

Global entertainemnt channel Trace acquires Kenya Qwetu Radio

November 6, 2019

Nigeria’s Access Bank acquires Transnational Bank

November 5, 2019

Countries

Celebrating the Mkapa years: Tanzania remembers

Celebrating the Mkapa years: Tanzania remembers

Beyond the pandemic: Cushioning Kenya’s tourism sector

IMF approves an additional $171.9 m to Madagascar

IMF approves $49.1 million to Lesotho

Economic Growth

A kiosk on a street corner. Small-business owners and young entrepreneurs in Africa will be trained to trade with other African countries as part of the new AfCFTA. www.theexchange.africa

Small businesses, young entrepreneurs key to AfCFTA success

Financing SMEs: Basis for impressive economic outlook

EAC priming MSMEs to hit GDP growth targets

Innovative funding for Kenyan SMEs to keep businesses booming

The Indicator

Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has for the fifth year been feted as the ‘Most Innovative Capital Markets Regulator in Africa 2019’ by the International Finance Magazine.

Why Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority is King in Africa

October 25, 2019

Rwanda leads EAC in global ease of doing business

October 24, 2019

Kenya’s insurance premiums hit US$1.13 billion mark

September 14, 2019

Kenya push for closure of ivory trade

Agribusiness

Africa’s food security relies on climate smart agriculture

Africa’s food security relies on climate smart agriculture

The pandemic has stress-tested our food systems, with many set to fail

Kenya to launch Agribusiness programmes to support youth involvement in agriculture

Horticulture exports gaining momentum

Energy

Mozambique and Angola highlighted on Energy Security webinar

Mozambique and Angola highlighted on Energy Security webinar

Africa’s mega power generation projects to light up Dark Continent

Africa’s mini-grid sector offers huge investment opportunities

How Africa will achieve universal electricity access

Infrastructure

Dar Rapid Transit (DART)- Tanzania Investment- The Exchange

World Bank funds infrastructure in Eastern and Southern Africa

Africa’s railways infrastructure key to AfCFTA success

Largest infrastructure projects in East Africa

Connecting Africa through ambitious transport infrastructure projects

Oil & Gas

A man works at an illegal oil refinery site near river Nun in Nigeria's oil state of Bayelsa November 27, 2012. Thousands of people in Nigeria engage in a practice known locally as 'oil bunkering' - hacking into pipelines to steal crude then refining it or selling it abroad. The practice, which leaves oil spewing from pipelines for miles around, managed to lift around a fifth of Nigeria's two million barrel a day production last year according to the finance ministry. Picture taken November 27, 2012. Source: REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - The Exchange

Nigeria oil industry on brink of collapse

African oil producers’ survival pegged on more intra-continent sales

Total buys out Tullow Oil for USD575 million

Coronavirus effect on crude oil: Prices at all time low

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Has investments in digital payments in Africa come of age?

Kenyan headquartered DPO Group to be acquired by Dubai based Network International for $288 Million

August 3, 2020

A kiosk on a street corner. Small-business owners and young entrepreneurs in Africa will be trained to trade with other African countries as part of the new AfCFTA. www.theexchange.africa

Small businesses, young entrepreneurs key to AfCFTA success

August 1, 2020

An artisan at work. Financing SMEs could be the basis for consecutive impressive East African economic outlook. www.theexchange.africa

Financing SMEs: Basis for impressive economic outlook

August 1, 2020

Manufacturing equipment. The EAC plans on transforming MSMEs to contribute at least 50% of manufacturing GDP from the current 20% base rate. www.theexchange.africa

EAC priming MSMEs to hit GDP growth targets

August 1, 2020

Coffee beans. The EAC should invest in SMEs since they are critical contributors to GDP growth of the region which mainly exports agricultural commodities in raw form. www.theexchange.africa

Increasing EAC SME visibility major boost for region’s economy

August 1, 2020

Kenyan headquartered DPO Group to be acquired by Dubai based Network International for $288 Million

Poisoned Cream: How Kenya’s adulterated milk has ruined an industry

African entity releases survival toolkit for Africa’s SMEs

Bridging the financing gap of SMEs in Africa

I&M Bank, KCDF sign Ksh 50 million conservation deal

Kenya’s ailing retailer Tuskys shareholders opt for equity investor

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