The Nigerian, Ghanaian and Kenyan currencies are expected to be steady against the dollar in the next week to Thursday, while ...

A gauge of expected volatility for the rand versus the dollar is at its lowest level since the turn of the century, ...

Instant cross-border payments and shared market infrastructure should be transforming the economic landscape of the world’s ...

South Africa began an offering of benchmark dollar debt for the first time in a year, joining other African issuers taking ...

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At the Yaoundé Summit, 41 Central Bank Governors Advance an Ambitious Vision for an African IMF and Central Bank Amid Growing ...

Ghana wants to ditch its currency, the Cedi, in favour of adopting the Eco. Eight other countries in the region — Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo — ...

For Africa’s fast-expanding army of freelancers, digital creators and small businesses, getting paid across borders remains ...

African leaders and investors are aligning around the strategy of using fund-of-funds structures, governance reform and ...

So far, we have three dogs in this fight, with no case of a pan-African central bank digital currency either live or at pilot stage. Out of the three, China’s DCEP from the People’s Bank of China is ...

Luigi Di Maio, an Italian deputy prime minister, took aim at President Emmanuel Macron of France this week, laying the blame for migration, a deeply divisive issue in Italy, on Mr. Macron. Citing a ...