Driving Gender Equality Forward: A Conversation with Africa Specialty Risks & Alitheia Capital

In this podcast, we explore the evolving risk landscape in Africa and its impact on trade, investment, and gender. Genevieve Ahinful, Head of Political Risk and Trade Credit at Africa Specialty Risks, and Tokunboh Ishmael, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Alitheia Capital, discuss changing perceptions, offering insights into the opportunities and challenges for investors, and the need for companies to implement …

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Bitcoin hits 70K USD, The Red Sea attacks and what that means for global inflation.

🎙 Bitcoin hits 70K USD, The Red Sea attacks and what that means for global inflation. 🎙 TowerCo of Africa Uganda secures $40M for rural mobile network expansion, fostering digital empowerment and economic growth. 🎙 Bitcoin Hits $70K Milestone, Driven by Central Bank Rate Cut Expectations and ETF Demand. 🎙Gold Hits Record High Near $2,200/ounce on Jobs Report, Rate Cut …

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Transformation of Global Trade in 2024, will it be emerging technologies or trade policy that will be the key drivers of global trade ?

🎙 How will trade and trade policy develop over the coming year? How are emerging technologies transforming global trade?  🎙 Bitcoin reached a new all-time high exceeding $71,800 on Monday as the UK opens up to crypto exchange-traded products. 🎙 The JSE All Share index was slightly down around 73,460 on Monday, following three consecutive sessions of advances. 🎙 Global …

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The trade ecosystem digitalization holds the potential to increase trade by nearly $9 trillion.

🎙Technology is revolutionising global commerce and investment, and digitalizing the trade ecosystem holds the potential to increase trade by nearly $9 trillion by 2026 within the G7 alone. 🎙 WTI crude futures surged past $78 per barrel on Tuesday, fueled by OPEC’s optimistic outlook on global oil demand growth in 2024 and 2025. 🎙 Economic growth surprised to the upside …

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Interswitch got a telco licence, here’s what it means

Our guest this week is Abubakar Idris, Tech Journalist at The Information and on this episode we discuss: Interswitch’s 2023 financial report LemFi’s expansion to China Subscribe to The Modern Workplace/, Equity Merchants/, Techpoint Digest/ and Intelpoint’s newsletter/    Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 01:34 – Interswitch’s 2023 34:53 – LemFi’e expansion to China   Useful links Interswitch to offer telecom services in Nigeria after securing …

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Supply concerns in West Africa as Cocoa prices surge.

🎙Global cooperation has been critical for the impressive expansion of well-being and opportunities in the past 70 years. 🎙Bitcoin pushed further into record territory on Wednesday as a rally in cryptocurrencies continued apace. 🎙Cocoa futures resumed their upward trend to trade around 7,950 per pound, marking a new historic high, attributed to ongoing supply concerns in West Africa. 🎙BK Capital …

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Edtech Funding Challenges Amid African Digitalization.

🎙Edtech startups in Africa raised $24.6 million or 0.7% of Africa’s total funding in 2022, according to data from Disrupt Africa. 🎙Prime Energy Plc a hydropower company received approval from the Capital Market Authority in Rwanda to issue the country’s maiden green bond. 🎙The regional bank, Equity Group beat its African peers to emerge the strongest banking brand on the …

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Undersea cables for Africa’s internet retrace history and leave digital gaps as they connect continents

Large parts of west and central Africa, as well as some countries in the south of the continent, were left without internet services on 14 March because of failures on four of the fibre optic cables that run below the world’s oceans. Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Ghana, Burkina Faso and South Africa were among the worst affected. By midday on 15 March …

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