Finance

FACRA: How Investors Can Help Build SMEs in Angola – The Missing Middle

By any measure, small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s) form a crucial part of any nation’s economic success. Typically, SME’s…

10 years ago

World Bank Report: Digital Payments Vital To Economic Growth

Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps.  Integrating digital…

10 years ago

PwC Nigeria: Does Size Really Matter? Economic and Fiscal Implications of Nigeria’s Rebased GDP

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an internationally recognised measure of economy size and strength. It is importance to have up-to-date…

10 years ago

Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Commodity Super Cycle to Stick Around a Bit Longer

Some analysts have predicted that the commodity price boom has played itself out. However, natural resource-based commodity prices (with the…

10 years ago

The Euro – A Paradox Checks Into Hotel California

It could have been conceived a bit more thoughtfully, but as a project the European common currency is not altogether…

10 years ago

The European Conundrum

The European Union is an interesting project that – once logic is duly applied – must end up with the…

10 years ago

MIGA (World Bank): Islamic Finance – A Growing Source of Capital for the Developing World

The World Bank has its eye on Islamic finance, and with reason. Islamic finance’s recent globalization – in both Muslim…

10 years ago

Ernst & Young, Argentina: The List from Black to White – Argentina Redefines Income Tax Law

Introduction To further our previous contribution – Tax Havens: The Argentine Government Issues a New Tax Regulation on Low or…

10 years ago

Norton Rose Fulbright: EU Sets New Financial Laws for Non-EU Entities

Introduction The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is one of the cornerstones of EU financial services law setting out…

10 years ago

Grant Thornton UAE: Bridging the Gap in Private M&A Transactions

The increased appetite for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is prevalent at both a regional and global level. This trend presents…

10 years ago