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The 2025 Africa Sovereign Investors Forum (ASIF) Meeting will take place from June 16–17, 2025, in Abuja, Nigeria.The meeting is hosted by the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA).The theme of the meeting is :“Leveraging African Sovereign Wealth Funds to Mobilize Global Capital for Transformative Development in Africa.”The event will bring together African Continue Reading
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By Brian Caplen Merger talks between Spanish lenders Bankia and CaixaBank have put European banking consolidation back in contention – but only domestic deals will probably go ahead.Let’s not forget the formidable list of challenges facing European banks – rock-bottom interest rates, bad loans from the pandemic heaped on top of those they still have […]Continue Reading
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By Sanya AdemiluyiGodwin Emefiele governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, CBN is a man on the spot. Having taken on the economic activist role in recent times ,the CBN governor may also neatly fit into a monetary policy hawk’s description.Needless to say, his economic activism has also led him to take on fiscal policy as part […]Continue Reading