Financial Markets & Economics

Dissecting Nigeria’s Cashless Policy

By Dolapo. Posted in Financial Markets & Economics on 3 Feb 2013.

In July 2012, First Bank of Nigeria, the country’s third largest bank, inaugurated cardless ATM services. This latest innovative move by one of Nigeria’s big banks followed widespread banking reforms in 2009 and several attempts at achieving financial inclusion for …

Embedding ethics among Africa’s funds and investors

By Lilian. Posted in Financial Markets & Economics on 17 Dec 2012.

“Look at the risks before the figures,” Khalid Ben Jilani of Africinvest Tunisia urged fellow investors at the Netherlands Development Finance Company’s (FMO) Achieving Sustainability in Finance course on environmentally and socially responsible investing (Jilani 2008:1). The Dutch institution gathered …

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