Musk Chides Binance CEO On Dogecoin Glitch
Tesla founder Elon Musk on Tuesday delivered a stinging rebuke to Binance Chief Executive Changpeng Zhao on Twitter after the…
Year: 2021
Asia Stocks Fall, Dollar Firm On U.S. Rate Hike Bets After Powell’s Renomination
Asia stocks faltered on Tuesday, tracking a retreat on Wall Street as traders bolstered their bets on U.S. rate hikes…
Citigroup To Create 100 Roles In Digital Asset Push
Citigroup is looking to create 100 roles focused on digital assets including blockchain and digital currencies at its institutional division,…
ENaira’ll Work With Other Countries’ Digital Currencies – CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that the implementation of the country’s digital currency will be done in four…
Pokemon Go Creator Niantic Valued At $9 Bln After Coatue’s Investment
Niantic Inc, the augmented reality (AR) platform behind Pokemon Go, raised $300 million from hedge fund Coatue at a valuation…
Zoom Shares Fall After Results As Wall Street Turns Cautious On Growth
Zoom Video Communications Inc’s third-quarter revenue growth rate slowed to 35% as demand for its video-conferencing tools eased from the…
Italy’s Antitrust Fines Amazon, Apple More Than 200 Mln Euros For Alleged Collusion
Italy’s antitrust authority has fined U.S. tech giants Amazon and Apple a total of more than 200 million euros ($225…
Chinese Tech Giant NetEase Launches $500 Million Hong Kong IPO For Its Music Business
NetEase has launched the Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) of its music business Cloud Village which could raise around…
Dismantle Trade Barriers To Grow Africa’s Economy, Dangote Urges Leaders
African leaders have been urged to dismantle trade barriers stifling their individual countries, in a bid to ensure smooth flow…
Capital Inflow Crashes By 80%, Foreign Investors Shun Nigerian Market
Capital inflow to Nigeria has crashed by 80 per cent in two years, the Central Bank of Nigeria reports have…
Naira Loses Steam, Sides To 555/Dollar In Parallel Market
The naira lost steam at the parallel market on Monday, sliding to 555 per dollar. The local currency had crashed…
Powell Tapped For Second Term As Fed Chair
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was nominated for a second four-year term by President Joe Biden on Monday, extending a…
FMN, Honeywell Flour Mills Merge Under N80billion Shares Transfer Deal
Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc (FMN) and Honeywell Group Limited On Monday announced that they have signed an agreement for…
Illiquidity: BMBs, Merchant Banks Borrow N215.7bn From CBN In One Week
Following scarcity of liquidity in the interbank money market, banks and merchant banks borrowed N215.7billion from Central Bank of Nigeria…
Forex Row Threatens Fuel Supply, Price Stability
The lingering row between private depot owners and the Federal Government over dollar payment of dues and levies is set…
OPEC+ Exceeded Quota By 116% In October As Nigeria, Angola Underperformed
The compliance by members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their allies known as OPEC Plus (OPEC+)…
KKR Buyout Offer Sends Telecom Italia Shares Surging 27%
Telecom Italia shares jumped more than 27% on Monday morning after U.S. private equity giant KKR launched a 10.8 billion…
Leadway Pensure’s Shares In First Bank Belong To RSA Holders – PenCom
Funds invested in First Bank Holdings Ltd (FBNH) by Leadway Pensure Ltd belong to retirement savings account (RSA) holders, the…
South African Airways To Resume Lagos Flights December — After 18-Month Suspension
South African Airways (SAA) has announced the resumption of flight operations on its Johannesburg-Lagos route. The airline had suspended commercial…
Naira Falls By 2.8% To N545/$1 At Parallel Market
The naira, on Friday, depreciated against the dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange market. Bureaux De Change…
Report: Kano Generated N24bn VAT In Eight Months — More Than All South-East States
The total value-added tax (VAT) generated by the Kano state government in the first eight months of 2021 was higher…
Canada Approves Pfizer-BioNTech Jab For Kids From Age 5
Canada has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11. It’s the first jab…
Aruwa Capital Invests In Pngme
Aruwa Capital Management, an early-stage growth equity and gender lens fund, has invested in Pngme, a Nigerian financial technology company.…
El Salvador President Plans ‘Bitcoin City’ Financed By Crypto Bonds
President Nayib Bukele said El Salvador plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City”, powered by a volcano and financed…
VoxCroft Analytics Raises Series A From Knife Capital
VoxCroft Analytics, an open-source intelligence and risk analytics venture with operations in South Africa and the US, said Thursday it…
Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Invests In Fintech OZOW’s Series B
According to a 2019 report by Deloitte, about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of…
UKCI And Norfund Fund JV’s Equity Participation In Wind Farm Portfolio
Cape Town-based investment firm H1 Holdings, which has inked a joint venture with an independent power producer in South Africa,…
Trade Deficit Declined To $340m In July – CBN
Nigeria’s trade deficit declined to $340m in July from $2.4bn in June, figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria…
Amethis’s MENA Fund II Buys Minority Stake In Tarjama
Africa-focused private equity firm Amethis said Tuesday it has made its second investment from the new fund that invests in…
Analysts See Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Rising In Nov, Dec
Amid the steady decline in headline inflation rates over the past few months, analysts have predicted an uptrend for the…