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Nyala Insurance Company in collaboration with Omo Micro Finance and donors has launched indemnity based livestock insurance service in Southern Omo Zone.

African capital markets regulators are working on a grand plan to merge all stockmarkets on the continent to reduce the cost of trading, facilitate cross-border trade in stocks and provide investors with a diversified basket of financial products and services.

The Bank of Industry (BoI) has disbursed loan facilities ranging from N10,000 to N50,000 to over 1,000 women entrepreneurs in Plateau State, under the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP).

CRDB bank has introduced a new mobile bank platform, SimAccount, that operates using mobile phones to simplify banking services.

The People's Own Savings Bank (POSB) has unveiled a $5 million mortgage loan facility for low-income earners.

Nedbank Namibia has become a platform partner of the Financial Literacy Initiative (FLI), which was initiated by the Ministry of Finance back in 2012.

The recent drought will see a consortium of insurers pay livestock farmers in semi-arid regions millions more after the initial payment in February.

Mo626 is a National Bank of Malawi's mobile phone service that enables its customers to do money transactions via mobile phones.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) have called on law firms in the country to merge into bigger entities and list their shares on the floor of the NSE.

The State owned giant, Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), is set to launch agent banking, CBE Birr, next month. It has already gotten approval from the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) to pilot the system.

Union Bank has unveiled a plethora of digital banking solutions which will allow customers perform banking transactions through short code messaging on their mobile phones.

Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB) yesterday pledged to allocate fund to support irrigation farming with the purpose of facilitating attainment of sustainable food self-sufficiency in the country.