ECB’s Villeroy Flags Flexibility On Bond Purchases
The European Central Bank will be flexible at all levels in its bond purchases, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau…
Southeast Asia’s Grab In Talks For U.S. Listing Via $40 Billion SPAC Deal: Sources
Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing and food delivery firm Grab Holdings is in talks to go public through a merger with…
As vaccine Nationalism Deepens, Governments Pay To Bring Production Home
In the German town of Dessau, one of the sites of the Bauhaus art school, an institute was set up…
Swiss Bank Rahn+Bodmer In U.S. Settlement Over Clients Defrauding IRS
Zurich private bank Rahn+Bodmer will pay $22 million to settle U.S. criminal charges it helped American taxpayers who were exiting…
Rakuten To Sell 8% Stake To Japan Post In Amazon Battle
Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten Inc said on Friday it would sell an 8.32% stake to postal and banking giant Japan…
Deutsche Bank 2020 Bonuses Jump 29% As Bank Turns Profit
Deutsche Bank paid 29% more in bonuses for the past year, the lender said on Friday, rewarding staff for a…
UK Economy Shrinks By Monthly 2.9% In January
Britain’s economy shrank by 2.9% in January from December as the country went back into a coronavirus lockdown, official data…
Hempburger To Go? Thai Consumer Goods Firms Pile Into Legal Cannabis Trade
If the bets of Thailand’s farmed cannabis promoters pay off, Thais could soon be chowing down on hempburgers, washed down…
From $318K To $0: Bitcoin Price Predictions For 2021
What will be the price of Bitcoin in one year? Ten years? Twenty years? Watch our latest video for our…
Asian Stocks Up On Dovish ECB As Biden Signs Stimulus
Asian shares rose on Friday after U.S. President Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill into law, and after…
National Assembly Is Broke, Needs Bigger Budget To Be Efficient –Reps
The House of Representatives has said the National Assembly is underfunded to function efficiently and effectively as a national parliament.…
Biden: All U.S. Adults To Be Eligible For Vaccines By May, Some Normalcy Coming By Summer
President Joe Biden told U.S. states on Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1…
NANS Commends CBN Cash For Dollar Policy
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has commended the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele for the…
China’s JD.com In Talks To Purchase Stake In Brokerage Worth $1.5 Billion – Sources
JD.com Inc is in talks to buy part or all of a stake in brokerage Sinolink Securities worth at least…
European Central Bank To Step Up Pace Of Stimulus Program
The European Central Bank said Thursday it will step up its bond-buying stimulus in the coming months, a step aimed…
Federal Government Replaces FIRS With NIPOST As Stamp Duty Collector
The Nigerian government on Thursday said it has replaced the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) with the Nigeria Postal Service…
‘Nigeria Loses $235b To Non-Passage Of PIB’
Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege said yesterday that Nigeria had lost about $235 billion to the non-passage of the…
Nigerian Banks To Stop “Instant Completion” For Forex Transfers Online
Commercial Banks in Nigeria are informing customers that they can no longer make instant online transfers out of their domiciliary…
Commodities Trader Buys $36 Million Of Copper And Gets Painted Rocks Instead
Commodities trader Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. struck a deal last summer to buy $36 million of copper from a Turkish…
What Happens When Robinhood Traders Walk Out Of The Stock Market?
The findings support the view that the popularity of zero-commission brokers has attracted a new type of uninformed equity-market participant
Nigeria Does Not Have A Fulani Problem: What We Have is A Food Production Challenge
Even the most egregious and utterly deplorable religious and ethnic dimensions of the present farmer-herder crisis are ultimately symptomatic, not…
Central Bank Of Nigeria’s NIRSAL Reopens Portal For MSMEs, Individuals To Access Up To N25 Million
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, has reopened its portal for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises…
Renewed Confidence, Excitement As Nigeria Stock Exchange Completes Demutualisation Exercise
Completion of the 10 -year demutualisation project of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has opened a new vista, especially growth…
Nigerian Payments Startup Flutterwave Now Valued At Over $1Bn. Raises $170m
Nigerian payments startup, Flutterwave, has closed a $170m Series C funding round, the largest amount ever secured by an African…
Stakeholders Canvass Policies to Regulate Cryptocurrency
The Nigerian Technology Industry Group has said there should be core policies that would help in regulating cryptocurrency providers in…
Nigeria, Largest Economy In Africa – UAE
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday, said Nigeria remained the largest economy in Africa. This was contained in a statement…
Smarter Dressing In Store For Hugo Boss As Lockdowns Lift
Hugo Boss expects its business will continue to suffer in the first quarter but forecast a gradual recovery from April…
UBA Group MD Explains Conservative Dividend Payout
The Group Managing Director/CEO of United Bank for Africa Plc, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, has said the bank reduced its dividend…
Stakeholders Foresee Growth Opportunities In NSE’s Demutualisation
Stakeholders in the capital market have hailed the final approval given by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the…
Australia To Subsidise Airfares As Part Of $928m Tourism Boost
The Australian government unveiled a 1.2 billion Australian dollars ($928m) tourism support package on Thursday, aimed at boosting local travel…