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Angola: Apex Bank Insists On Cutting Interest Rate

Angola’s Central Bank said it will keep cutting interest rates as long as inflation is kept low, forecasting that inflation will fall to 16% this year and 9-10% by the.

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Banking for the Common Good: The First Bank Example

From digital innovation to revolutionary banking, First Bank has been consistent with its pacesetting agenda. Since 1894, in the era of Brick-and-mortar banking, the bank’s customer-centric philosophy has placed her.

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The Dawn of African Economic Greatness World-Over

The awful truth about emerging African economic greatness is beginning to dawn on the world. Don’t butt in to think it’s going to be a fleeting excitement. Never. It will.

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Liberia Apex Bank Chief, Tarlue Calls for Measures to Protect African Economies

The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) Executive Governor, J. Aloysius Tarlue has urged central banks in Africa to take measures to protect the public good against any potential disruptions in.

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Nigeria’s Central Bank Raises Interest Rate to 14%

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has unanimously voted to increase the benchmark interest rate (monetary policy rate) to 14% from 13%, being the second.

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AFRICA.COM: Live from the World Economic Forum in Davos

This year, Africa Day coincides with the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland.  African leaders, together with world leaders, are gathering to discuss critical issues of.

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Development Bank Ghana Seeks Fivefold Lending Leap in 5 years

Development Bank Ghana, which officially starts operations on Tuesday with about $800 million in the capital, plans to grow lending fivefold over the next five years to help end a.

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AFRICA.COM: Live from the World Economic Forum in Davos

This year, Africa Day coincides with the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland.  African leaders, together with world leaders, are gathering to discuss critical issues of.

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South African Central Bank eyes digital rand to cut cross-border payment costs

A digital rand in South Africa could cut the high cost of cross-border payments for banks, but a senior central bank official said its introduction is still a few years.

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Central African bank regulator reminds states of crypto ban

Central Africa’s regional banking regulators sent out a reminder on Friday about its ban on cryptocurrencies, weeks after the Central African Republic, a member state, made bitcoin legal tender. The.

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