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Firstbank Nigeria Wins 3 Awards at Global Banking & Finance Awards

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has received 3 international awards as it featured in the list of the 2021 Global Banking and Finance magazine sweeping the “Retail Banking CEO of.

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PBZ Bank Partners with Airtel Money to Provide Online Financial Services in Zanzibar

The Peoples Bank of Zanzibar (PBZ Bank) has entered into a partnership with Airtel Tanzania to provide an innovative service on money transactions aimed at bringing financial services closer to.

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Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala – World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General

By Walcott Aganu “I’m a fighter; I’m very focused on what I’m doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my.

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AfDB President Akin Adesina restates the Bank’s Africa growth acceleration strategy at the 8th International Forum on African Leadership, IFAL 2020

The President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina has said that as part of strategies to help in rebuilding Africa, due to the large-scale disruption occasioned by COVID-19, the.

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Nigeria’s Virtual Bank Kuda Raises $10 million to be the First Mobile Challenger Bank for Africa.

Kuda Nigeria based fintech startup, which is a pan-African mobile challenger bank for customers has announced it has a US$10 million seed funding round focused on accelerating its growth and.

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Professor Kishore Predicts Rise of Africa to Afreximbank’s Babacar

The Babacar Ndiaye lecture series was launched by Afreximbank four years ago, to honour the founding role of the late Dr Babacar Ndiaye in the establishment of Afreximback. As president.

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The Short Tenure and Abrupt Ouster of Banking’s Sole Black C.E.O.

By Kate Kelly Tidjane Thiam made Credit Suisse profitable again. But the Swiss rejected him as an outsider, and a sudden scandal took him down.

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Dr Akinwumi Adesina Re-elected as President of the African Development Bank Group

Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina has been re-elected to serve a second five-year term as President of the African Development Bank Group on Thursday, August 27, 2020, by the Board of.

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IFC Announces $50 Million Loan to Equity Bank to Support Kenyan SMEs During COVID-19

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a $50 million loan to Equity Bank Kenya to help it increase working capital and trade-related lending to its small.

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IFC Invests in Nigeria’s Zenith Bank to Support SMEs, Address Challenges Related to COVID-19

The International Finance Corporation – IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced an investment up to $100 million in Nigeria’s Zenith Bank Plc. To help it increase support to clients and companies whose cash flows have been disrupted by challenges caused by the.

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