Commonwealth News
SPBD (Tonga) launches white goods financing program
The South Pacific Business Development (SPBD Tonga) Microfinance empowers its members to start, grow and maintain micro-businesses with its loan program - White Goods Financing (WGF) in partnership with Durga Lakshmi Manufacturing Ltd (DLM), one of the largest white...
Nigeria exploring business opportunities with Jamaica
At a virtual Service Excellence Conference, Nigeria's High Commissioner, Dr Maureen Tamuno says that Nigeria is exploring opportunities for trade and business with Jamaica. The High Commissioner further added that formalising a new air-service agreement would be a...
New Bahamas Government flags ‘highest priority’ to boost financial services industry
Bahamas' new economic affairs minister, Michael Halkitis, wants to boost the financial services industry at the highest priority and "progressively harness profitable niches". Halkitis intends to diversify investments in technology, renewable energy, sustainable...
Cryptocurrency platform CoinSwitch Kuber raises $260 million, valued at $1.9 billion
Crypto asset platform CoinSwitch Kuber raises more than $260 million in Series C funding round from existing and new investors including Coinbase Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, valuing it at $1.9 billion. The company plans to design ways of simplifying investments...
Ghana to host first-ever African Paralympic Games in 2023
Ghana to host the first-ever African Paralympic Games in 2023, the President of National Paralympic Committee of Ghana (NPC-Ghana) Samson Deen revealed this week. About 50 African countries are expected to participate in the continental showcase. NPC clarified that...
Shelter Afrique plans $15m prefab factory in Cameroon
The Nairobi-based, Pan-African housing financier Shelter Afrique enters a deal with Cameroon to set up a prefab factory to provide low-cost construction materials. The lender has approved establishing the $15 million Industrial Housing Corporation (IHC) close to the...