Banking sector regulation is over complex and disproportionate — Ravi Takhar, CEO of UK’s LSE listed Orchard Funding Group PLC
Post AMUGE
May 14, 2024
High minimum capital good for incumbent banks, creates oligopoly, stifles competition Capital, liquidity important, but must be in context of banks’ business plan RAVI TAKHAR, with 35 years plus’ experience in the creation, acquisition, financing, disposal and growth of financial businesses, is the chief executive officer of the London Stock Exchange listed Orchard Funding Group […]
Climate solutions beyond investor, entrepreneur connections — Grace Mbah, ED, Climate Action Africa
Post AMUGEMay 7, 2024
Grace Oluchi Mbah,co-founder/executive director, Climate Action Africa GRACE OLUCHI MBAH, the co-founder and executive director of Climate Action Africa (CAA), a social enterprise that promotes climate literacy, advocacy, research, and commercialisation of sustainable products and services in Africa, tells Business a.m.’s ONOME AMUGE, about the impact of the upcoming Climate Action Africa Forum and the […]
Create fair balance in utilisation of money and capital markets
Chris IkosaApril 30, 2024
— Adeosun, outgoing CIS president For faster, greater performance of the Nigerian economy Advises banks to prioritise digital innovation to connect youths during recapitalisation OLUWOLE ADEOSUN, the 12th and outgoing President and Chairman of Council of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) Nigeria, is the Managing Director and CEO of Chartwell Securities Limited, a broker/dealer […]
Create fair balance in utilisation of money and capital markets — Adeosun, outgoing CIS president
Post AMUGEApril 29, 2024
For faster, greater performance of the Nigerian economy Advises banks to prioritise digital innovation to connect youths during recapitalisation OLUWOLE ADEOSUN, the 12th and outgoing President and Chairman of Council of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) Nigeria, is the Managing Director and CEO of Chartwell Securities Limited, a broker/dealer firm and an issuing house registered […]
Africa’s emerging telcos grapple with brand loyalty, infrastructure costs — van Breukelen, CEO, Itemate Solutions
Post AMUGEApril 22, 2024
Africa’s telecommunications ecosystem is a thriving sphere where a select group of telecom titans, including MTN, Airtel, Safaricom, among others stand as beacons of Africa’s economic and social evolution. These telcos have provided connectivity to hundreds of millions of individuals long left in the dark by a lack of robust fixed broadband and fibre connectivity. […]
We do not have enough air traffic controllers — Farouk, NAMA MD
Post AMUGEApril 22, 2024
Ahmed Umar Farouk, managing director, NAMA Ahmed Umar Farouk, an engineer, is managing director, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA). In this interview, he speaks about the upgrade of Navaids, including addressing communication and power issues as well as revealing challenges the agency is grappling with. Excerpts: It seems NAMA is taking a new shape and […]
World’s biggest polluting industries must pay fair share for climate
Post AMUGEApril 22, 2024
New task force puts forward global climate levies to raise money for climate-vulnerable communities, says Director of European Climate Foundation Ahead of the meeting in Washington D.C., United States last Wednesday, 17 April 2024 of the International Tax Task Force (ITTF), which was set up at the COP28 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai, […]
Telecom plays role in transforming Nigerian businesses, lives, livelihoods
Joy Agwunobi, Mike Ochonma, Onome AmugeNovember 20, 2023
WALE OWOEYE is the CEO of Cedarview Communications Limited, a Lagos-based ICT company that specialises in designing, planning, and implementing innovative technological solutions. The company is also a key player in the broadband space in West Africa, helping to bring high-speed internet access to the region. In this interview with Business A.M.’s Business Editor, MIKE […]
We’ve transformed Just Food from trading company to international manufacturing business – Chairman Ikpobe
Onome AmugeJune 26, 2023
APOLLOS IKPOBE, banker and financial expert with over three decades experience in the banking and finance industry, including stints as executive director, Zenith Bank Plc; deputy managing director, United Bank for Africa Plc, as well as many non- executive directorships, is currently the chairman of Just Food Limited. West Africa’s leading supplier of quality consumables […]
Jim O’Neill, former Goldman Sachs executive, on BRICS, de-dollarisation, global inflation, Nigeria’s resource curse, Brexit
Business a.m.June 21, 2023
By Business A.M. The BRICS 20 years on! In this interview, originally published by IC Intelligence, Jim O’Neill, who as chief economist of Goldman Sachs wrote the paper that gave birth to the acronym BRICS, in conversation with Desné Masie, chief economist, IC Intelligence, speaks on BRICS, de-dollarisation, global inflation and macroeconomic risk, […]