Finance and Investment
The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has successfully returned to the international capital markets, raising US$500 million through a Eurobond issued at the tightest pricing ever achieved by a premier investment-grade issuer focused on Africa.
Finance and Investment
Regional leaders have outlined an ambitious agenda to accelerate sovereign debt restructuring and strengthen Africa’s financial resilience, with the goal of helping key West African economies achieve investment-grade status within the next three years.
Finance and Investment
For decades, Africa has often been discussed through the language of aid, debt relief, and development assistance. International conversations involving the continent frequently focused on poverty reduction, governance reforms, and humanitarian challenges, reinforcing the perception of Africa as...
Finance and Investment
Big ideas often struggle long before they reach the people they are meant to help. Across Africa and other emerging markets, many solutions to inequality never move beyond the concept stage because access to patient capital remains limited. This week, a new funding window signaled growing...
Finance and Investment
Women in African entrepreneurship are not a new story. African women have been trading, farming, selling, building, and leading businesses for centuries. What is new, in 2026, is the scale and the growing recognition that if Africa wants to build...
Finance and Investment
The Mauritius Commercial Bank has launched a $1 billion multi-year trade finance facility aimed at supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating within the African Continental Free Trade Area framework.
Finance and Investment
The government of Ghana announced that the renewal of the Tarkwa mining lease held by Gold Fields would not be automatic and would instead be subjected to a stricter review process.
Finance and Investment
Africa’s fintech momentum may still be strong, but global market conditions are beginning to slow how aggressively companies move toward public listings. Airtel Africa this week confirmed it is postponing the planned IPO of Airtel Money
Finance and Investment
Africa's financial systems, digital infrastructure and fintech architecture are being designed today. The question nobody is asking loudly enough: are Africans designing these systems, or just building them for someone else?
Finance and Investment
By the third day of the 3i Africa Summit 2026, the conversation had evolved in a way that felt almost inevitable. The summit had arrived at the question that had always been lurking, the one that nobody in a convening of this kind wants to ask: whose Africa is it anyway?
Technology
Forty-six percent, that is the share of African adults who remain entirely outside the formal financial system. Set it alongside the headline numbers the $2 trillion in mobile money transactions, the 66% share of global mobile money value and what you get is not a success story.
Finance and Investment
Africa’s ambition to build a fully integrated digital economy is gaining renewed momentum as governments, regulators and industry leaders intensify efforts to harmonise systems, reduce cross-border transaction costs and strengthen digital infrastructure to unlock continental trade.