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Category: The Revival of Africa

Africa is the new emerging market that has yet to be inflated or even largely discovered. While the continent is rife with cultural and infrastructural problems, its resources are vast and its people eager to move into the global mainstream. Nick Kochan has written widely about the scope for investment in Africa, and about the key countries’ opportunities now and in the future. curb on foreign period.

Corruption in South Africa

Nick Kochan November 1, 2017 Blog / Bribery and Corruption / Money Laundering / Regulation / The Revival of AfricaLeave a comment

  Corruption puts South Africa in peril   When corruption becomes endemic, it is not just isolated individuals or parts of the economy that are undermined, but the rules of the game are changed possibly irreversibly. This can have far-reaching consequences  The body politic ails grievously as a result.  Corruption …

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UK security outside the EU

Nick Kochan October 9, 2017 Blog / Human Trafficking / Law Enforcement / Terrorist Financing / The Revival of AfricaLeave a comment

In our age of insecurity, and threat, it is easy to make the assumption that security interests trump all. But is it so simple? The status of the UK’s relationship to Europol and to other European police and intelligence agencies remains uncertain as the date for departure from the European …

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A body blow to Africa

Nick Kochan May 5, 2017 The Revival of AfricaLeave a comment

HSBC’s decision to walk away from its proposed $8 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in Nedbank is little short of dramatic. It poses a plethora of questions: why did HSBC do it; what happens to Nedbank; what does it say about the attractiveness of South African banks to global …

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Nigeria issue takes Africa centre stage

Nick Kochan May 5, 2017 The Revival of AfricaLeave a comment

When Nigeria comes to the market this month with a £500m sovereign bond, investors will scrabble to get a piece of it. The $500 million ten year bond will be heavily oversubscribed as African credit moves away from the fringe of the emerging market universe to dead centre. Africa is …

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