Author Archives: Africa Business

As Europe Announces An Additional US$170bln Of Finance For Africa, Stakeholders Prepare To Gather In Brussels For The 24th Africa Energy Forum This June 2022

‘Africa for Africa – Building Energy for the Just Transition’ Following two years of COVID restrictions we are excited that the Africa Energy Forum (aef) is back to full capacity with the return of the massive exhibition, the four-day multi-streamed agenda focusing on the private sectors investment needs and business development. In Brussels aef will […]

Five ways CRM can help your sales team close more deals

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When you give your sales team the right tools to effectively and efficiently manage clients and build a relationship with them, you positively impact your bottom line. 1Stream’s smart CRM is specifically designed to do just that and has helped transform organisations across various sectors in Southern Africa, which understand the value of building meaningful connections with […]

Paramount Group Expands Mwari Border Security Role With Advanced Anti-Drone Technologies

Paramount Group, the global aerospace and technology company, announced today that its multi-mission, Mwari aerial platform has been equipped with advanced anti-drone technologies, enabling the deployment of the aircraft as an effective hunter and killer of Medium Altitude and Long Endurance Drones (MALEs). The clean-sheet designed Mwari is the next evolution in ‘Find, Fix & […]

Property scams continue to rise at alarming rates

Investing in property is one of the biggest financial decisions a person is likely to make. New and increasingly sophisticated scams and incidence of fraud are on the rise and affect developers, buyers, sellers, estate agents, conveyancing attorneys, and other property professionals. “As property transactions typically involve substantial sums of money, they are a natural […]

Global Climate Action is Accelerating and Early-Mover Companies Can Seize Significant Advantage

Timing, Pace, and Extent of Change Needed for Net-Zero Transition Are Still Widely Underestimated New Report from World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group Provides CEOs with a Guide for Navigating an Unprecedented Global Transformation  Early Movers Can Drive Outsized Impact, and Gain Competitive Advantage on Multiple Dimensions Companies Can Save Cash and Carbon: Emissions […]

Announcing Winners of the 9th Edition of the Sankalp Africa Summit Awards 2022

Over 2,000 delegates is convening for the Sankalp Africa Summit, a hybrid 3 Day Virtual and a 1 Day In-Person event on ‘Mainstreaming Impact’ Sankalp Forum, an initiative of Intellecap, is hosting its 9th Edition of the Sankalp Africa Summit, one of Africa’s largest inclusive networking platforms focussed on entrepreneurship and the impact investing ecosystem, […]

Budget’s focus on taxpayer relief bodes well for bill payments

South African’s can say thank you to the Minister of Finance for providing some tax relief during his maiden Budget speech that will put money back into their pockets – something that bodes well for economic activity and the bill payments sector. In the 2022 Budget Speech, delivered by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday, […]

Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering (KPE) Delivers New Batch Of Locally Manufactured Armoured Vehicles

Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering (KPE), the joint venture between the global aerospace and technology business, Paramount Group and one of Kazakhstan’s leading defence and engineering companies, Kazpetromash, has announced its latest delivery of Arlan 4×4 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) to the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in accordance with that nation’s State Defence Order. […]

How 3 draws per week makes the French Lotto that more appealing

Did you know the French Lotto draw happens three times a week? That’s one more than most major lotteries around the world and yet another opportunity in a seven-day period to win big. It happens on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, giving those who enter a chance to triumph at the start, in the middle and […]

The biggest fintech trends changing the face of payments in emerging markets

Mark Dankworth, President Business Development Africa at Ukheshe, shares his thoughts on how mobile money, cross-border payments and ‘buy now, pay later’ are transforming the financial sector, particularly in emerging markets, for the better. Last year saw an unprecedented rate of change in the financial sector, with huge growth in the use of digital financial […]