Airtel Money has launched a retail offer for its initial public offering, setting a minimum application of £250 per investor. This move precedes its planned listing on the London Stock Exchange. The offer commenced on October 2, 2026, and is specifically available to eligible investors who are resident and physically present in the United Kingdom….
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has filed an initial public offering application with Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission, moving the company closer to a listing on the Nigerian Exchange. SEC Director-General Emomotimi Agama said the refinery’s advisers are working with the regulator and that the company is targeting September 2026. No offer or listing date has been…
SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas. Gabriel V Cardenas/Reuters SpaceX shares dropped below their initial public offering price for the first time on Wednesday before closing just above that level, just over a month after the rockets-to-AI firm completed the biggest IPO ever and made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The shares slid 0.6% to…
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) has added the first molecular diagnostic test for Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) to its Emergency Use Listing (EUL). The test detects the virus by identifying its genetic material in blood samples, helping confirm infection rapidly and accurately. WHO’s EUL procedure assesses the quality, safety and performance of essential health products…
Elon Musk closes in on $1 trillion as SpaceX raises $75 billion. (Image created by GenAI with images by James Duncan Davidson | CC BY-NC 3.0 and SpaceX) Institutional investors piled into SpaceX, with demand for its stock at $135 a share – valuing the company at a world record listing price of $1.77 trillion…
AI giant Anthropic has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering, teeing up what could become a watershed moment for Wall Street’s AI frenzy. The move sets up a high-stakes test of whether investor appetite for the AI revolution that has reshaped white-collar work around the world can match the sky-high expectations surrounding the…
French media and entertainment group Canal+ has formally confirmed it will conduct a secondary listing on the main board of the JSE on Wednesday, 3 June 2026, becoming the first French company to list on the Johannesburg bourse. The pre-listing announcement, published on Tuesday, sets out the terms of the fast-track secondary inward listing of…
Thomas Mukoya/Reuters Airtel Africa on Friday delayed the planned public listing of its mobile money business to the second half of 2026 and forecast a near-term margin squeeze due to higher costs arising from the ongoing US-Israeli war against Iran. The war has triggered an unprecedented crunch in crude supplies from the Middle East and…
Canal+, the global media and entertainment group that took control of MultiChoice last year, has confirmed it will conduct a secondary listing on the JSE on 3 June, becoming the first French company to do so. The inward listing remains subject to final approval from the bourse, which the company said is “expected to be…
BLU’s carrying value of Cell C has dropped. (Photograph by Nicola Mawson) JSE-listed Blu Label Unlimited is set to take a R5.2 billion hit on its stake in Cell C because the value of its investment at listing was lower than the value it was carrying on its books, resulting in an accounting loss. In…
