Weekly Brief Nov 11 Canada launches 24/7 payment rail, Lloyds and BRAC digitise trade documents Transaction Finance Weekly: Payments Canada launches 24/7 payments infrastructure as Lloyds and BRAC Bank reduce trade-document processing to one day.... 116
Weekly Brief Nov 04 Nedbank completes 66% NCBA acquisition; Moody’s downgrades Senegal TAB Africa Weekly Brief: African banks expanded across borders as Nedbank took control of NCBA and Absa entered Dubai, while Moody’s downgraded Sene... 1131
Weekly Brief Oct 27 HSBC launches RedCoin, JP Morgan and ADB expand India working-capital support Transaction Finance Weekly: Hong Kong stablecoins gain a major bank’s payment network, while recipient verification and shared settlement arrangemen... 1397
Weekly Brief Oct 20 Spanish banks extend blockchain into syndicated loan administration, Visa launches stablecoin prefunding Transaction Finance Weekly: Santander and BBVA administer a syndicated loan on blockchain as Visa takes stablecoin prefunding live and Japan’s megab... 1660
Weekly Brief Oct 15 Ecobank strengthens China-Africa payments as banks pursue new digital channels TAB Africa Weekly Brief: Standard Bank backs OPay, Airtel Money lists in London, Ecobank expands renminbi links and Zambia nears IMF programme.... 3782
Weekly Brief Oct 02 NGFS outlines how climate risk could raise banks’ capital requirements Sustainable Finance Weekly: NGFS outlines climate capital buffers, FCA softens disclosure rules and DBS and ING underwrite a GBP 1.016 billion London ... 1352
Weekly Brief Oct 01 Mozambique downgraded to CCC as debt-restructuring risk rises TAB Africa Weekly Brief: S&P cuts Mozambique to CCC on Eurobond restructuring risk, Nigeria's yields fall after CBN rate reset and Angola sells Standa... 2299
Weekly Brief Sep 23 Nigeria resets policy rate to 23% after benchmark diverges from market rates TAB Africa Weekly Brief: The Central Bank of Nigeria reset its policy rate to 23%, Nigeria regained FTSE Russell frontier status and CRDB Bank refinan... 1311
Weekly Brief Sep 17 BCEAO holds rates at 3% as African regulators tighten banking and financial-market oversight TAB Africa Weekly Brief: BCEAO kept monetary conditions unchanged, Ghana tightened credit and FX oversight, Morocco opened a new regional funding chan... 3125
Weekly Brief Sep 10 Dangote’s $1.6 billion IPO opens a $14.3 billion financing programme TAB Africa Weekly Brief: Dangote Refinery launches $1.62 billion IPO to fund $14.3 billion expansion as AfDB unveils $5.1 billion crisis response.... 1463
Weekly Brief Aug 18 Citi joins $4.6 billion Japan-US financing, China expands corporate cash pooling Transaction Finance Weekly: Citi backs $4.6 billion Japan-US power deal, China expands RMB cash pooling and South Korea commits KRW 5 trillion to semi... 2362
Weekly Brief Aug 05 Tanzania's CRDB profit rises 20%, Nedbank advances NCBA acquisition TAB Africa Weekly Brief: CRDB Bank posts a 20.3% profit rise as Nedbank advances its NCBA Group acquisition and S&P Global agrees to buy a majority st... 1490
Weekly Brief Jul 29 Southern Africa's regional payment system adds Angolan kwanza as second settlement currency Transaction Finance Weekly: SADC-RTGS added the Angolan kwanza as its first new settlement currency since 2013, Visa partnered with Airwallex on freig... 1516
