Future-fit enterprise: finance as a growth engine

Future-fit enterprise: finance as a growth engine

Are finance teams still reporting on what happened yesterday, or are they shaping what happens next? This was the centre of the conversation that happened at the Bryanston Country Club on 13 August 2025. Senior leaders gathered for TechCentral’s exclusive briefing, hosted with Sage.  The focus? Future-fit enterprise – finance as a growth engine. Finance…

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Africa: Ghibconverge 2025 Outlines Bold Roadmap for Africa’s Commodity and Trade Finance Transformation

Africa: Ghibconverge 2025 Outlines Bold Roadmap for Africa’s Commodity and Trade Finance Transformation

67 Cheapside, City of London — Ghana International Bank (GHIB) has concluded GHIBCONVERGE 2025, its flagship thought-leadership and impact forum, after three days of intensive debate on the future of African commodity trade and finance. The event, held in the City of London from 6-8 August 2025, brought together policymakers, financiers, commodity executives, legal specialists,…

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Africa: Ghibconverge 2025 Outlines Bold Roadmap for Africa’s Commodity and Trade Finance Transformation

Africa: Governments Must Back $125bn Tfff Forest Fund With Stronger Finance Laws

The Brazilian Presidency’s flagship conservation finance initiative for COP30 – the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) – must be supported by sponsor governments also introducing stronger rules to close loopholes that allow the financing of deforestation, Global Witness has warned. The Government of Brazil today released its latest plans for the $125 billion initiative, which…

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Africa: Ghibconverge 2025 Outlines Bold Roadmap for Africa’s Commodity and Trade Finance Transformation

Africa: Namibia’s Green Finance Revolution – A Blueprint for Africa’s Energy Future

Namibia is quietly emerging as one of Africa’s most compelling clean energy stories. With world-class solar and wind resources, the country is now pairing natural advantage with financial innovation to reshape its energy future. At the heart of this transformation is the green project financing, a fast-evolving mechanism that is unlocking capital, accelerating infrastructure and…

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Africa: Ghibconverge 2025 Outlines Bold Roadmap for Africa’s Commodity and Trade Finance Transformation

Africa: Ghib CEO Outlines Plan to Finance Africa’s Value-Addition Drive … Calls for Trade Finance to Break Raw Export Cycle

Cheapside, London — Dean Adansi, Chief Executive Officer of Ghana International Bank (GHIB), has unveiled a financing blueprint aimed at breaking Africa’s dependence on raw commodity exports and driving investment into local value addition. Speaking to the BBC on the sidelines of GHIB CONVERGE 2025 in London, Adansi argued that Africa is losing billions of…

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Africa: Ghibconverge 2025 Outlines Bold Roadmap for Africa’s Commodity and Trade Finance Transformation

Africa: Transparency Crucial to Ending Africa’s Illicit Finance – AfDB

ADDIS ABABA – Strengthening transparency in Africa’s natural resource sector is key to tackling illicit financial flows, illegal natural resource trade, and resource-backed lending, the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has emphasized. The Bank has concluded the Chad leg of its GONAT initiative training and policy dialogue titled “Unlocking Africa’s Wealth: Curbing Illicit Financial Flows…

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5-trillion traded: Binance redefines global finance in just eight years

$125-trillion traded: Binance redefines global finance in just eight years

Binance, the global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and user base, is celebrating eight years of growth. This milestone reflects the collective impact of a global community that continues to advance crypto towards the mainstream and chart the future of digital finance. Starting as a crypto-to-crypto exchange in 2017,…

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