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Timeline of the ICBC - Standard Bank deals

ICBC's investment in Standard Bank has not delivered all that it promised, but it has nonetheless led to some key financing packages

Key events from November 2008 to August 2012


Asian banks spread across the continent

Some banks have been on the continent for decades but the rise in trade levels over the last decade has driven more competition to Africa

AAC's got it mapped


Bonding over bourses

Stock exchanges in Shanghai and Johannesburg embarked on a new cooperative project in August that will encourage more equity investments

Following the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-Shanghai Stock Exchange memorandum of understanding in September 2012, the inaugural South Africa-China Capital Market Forum was held at t...


Trade levels rise and rise

New statistics show continued high rates of growth in Asia-Africa trade, as African economies become more entwined with the BRICs

Africa’s trade with Asia’s major economies has gone from strength to strength, as trade with China and India continues to grow much faster than trade with the United St...


The attractions of coal and gas

On her first state visit to Africa, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pledged an $8 billion investment in Mozambican port and rail projects

Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra embarked on her maiden state visit to Africa in late July. Her first stop was Mozambique, where on 1 August she promised to make...


Dam number three at Inga Falls

Kinshasa seals a deal with South Africa for the third dam in the series

Chinese, South Korean and Spanish companies are among those competing for the contract to construct Inga 3 after Congo-Kinshasa announced on 18 May that it has clinched a deal with...


Elections and electioneering stall deals

The Essar deal, along with many others, is set to languish until after the polls

The early April visit of India's Steel Minister, Beni Prasad Verma, scarcely made headlines in Zimbabwe's media. With elections on the horizon, Zimbabwe is more obsessed than ever ...


Pipeline politics

The Kenyan government wants to get moving on the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor

Presidents Salva Kiir Mayardit and Uhuru Kenyatta reaffirmed their commitment to the Lamu pipeline this month when they met on 23 May in Juba, ahead of the African Union Summit in ...


The BRICS didn’t break out the bank

The emerging countries’ summit reached agreement on a currency stabilisation fund and ministers will continue negotiations on a new development bank

Symbolism and messages counted more than the details at the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit in Durban, South Africa, on 26-27 March. So, after lengthy ...


Hostile crowd awaits BRICS summiteers

Ahead of the fifth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit in Durban on 26-27 March, South African companies are demanding that the African National Congress g...


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