In association with African Business Magazine, market leaders in providing country supplements, industry reports and market intelligence on Africa. Find out more + Deal news Tunisian expense management platform secures $20m Expensya, an automated spend management solution for businesses, has concluded a $20m fundraising. Two new funds, MAIF Avenir and Silicon Badia, have […]
Category: Perspectives
Investors on Orbitt platform focus on East and West Africa
In association with African Business Magazine, market leaders in providing country supplements, industry reports and market intelligence on Africa. Find out more + Orbitt provides readers with an overview of investor behaviour recorded on the Orbitt platform in the first half of 2021, as well as an analysis of the companies being engaged. Despite […]
3 key ingredients to investing with impact
As an investor, does your strategy support your mission and values? How do you evaluate and select investing opportunities which ensure your impact supports profit? Which is the most suitable framework for evaluating impact opportunities you should use? Recent years have seen the growth of responsible investing, which seeks to mobilise capital into investments that […]
Debt relief proposals for Africa are making little progress
SPECIAL REPORT: Exclusive to Orbitt readers Proposals on how to redirect IMF international reserve assets from developed countries to emerging markets are failing to make headway. The prospect of blanket debt relief in Africa remains remote, while deferred interest on bilateral and concessional loans will become due from next year. Few countries will be able […]
LNG in sub-Saharan Africa: challenges, growth and opportunities
The International Energy Agency predicts that global LNG trade is expected to reach 585 billion cubic metres per year by 2025, an increase of 21% compared to 2019[1]. North America is cited as being responsible for almost 80% of LNG export growth with most of the residual falling to Africa. This forecast for Africa is […]
Governance and risk management in African trade finance
Africa’s trade financing gap is one of the key topics on the continent as far as access to debt is concerned. So much has been done in the last few years: AfCTA, increased liquidity capacity – especially since the pandemic – the digital booming (Orbitt, Asoko, dltledgers) and innovative solutions of which factoring is perhaps […]
Africa Deal Tracker May 2021
In association with African Business Magazine, market leaders in providing country supplements, industry reports and market intelligence on Africa. Find out more + Deal news Mastercard to invest $100m in Airtel Mobile Commerce Mastercard has agreed to invest $100m in Airtel Mobile Commerce (AMC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Airtel Africa. AMC is […]
SME funding: imports, exports and intra-African trade
In association with African Business Magazine, market leaders in providing country supplements, industry reports and market intelligence on Africa. Find out more + Intra-African trade continues to be a popular topic of conversation as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) takes effect. Orbitt provides our readers with an overview of trade flows of […]
Seamless international payments needed to drive trade growth
Africa’s trade growth depends on its businesses’ ability to make seamless international payments. The African economic narrative over the past decade has been that of a continent rising, and it is easy to understand why it’s demographics are quite compelling; Africa boasts of a rapidly growing and youthful population that is increasingly being urbanised. However underneath the […]
Special Report: Africa emerging from the pandemic
SPECIAL REPORT: Exclusive to Orbitt readers A handful of African countries will begin to emerge from the pandemic this year. Based on the latest economic outlook data and PANGEA-RISK’s updated quantitative country risk ratings, we assess the trajectory of the pandemic in Africa, the road ahead for the vaccination rollout, persistent sovereign debt concerns, and […]
