African private capital markets experienced a record-high volume of deals in 2022, with deal volumes in the region recording a 46% year-over-year (YoY) growth. In 2022, 626 deals took place, a favourable increase amidst broader global trends, where deal volumes and...

Professional investors including pension funds, private equity and venture capital firms, family offices and sovereign wealth funds are set to boost allocations to gold and gold miners over the next 18 months as the metal's price rises. This is according to new...

What will the world's biodiversity look like in the future? According to a new study the disruption of biodiversity from climate change on land and in the oceans will be abrupt and could be much sooner than we had expected, potentially affecting tens of thousands of...

With South Africa entering into its third week of the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, consumer spending has reflected several about-turns. Our data, comprising of point of sale (POS) and transactions from ATM withdrawals - both recorded by BankservAfrica - tracks South...

With the rise of social distancing, Kaspersky experts investigated the threat landscape for social meeting applications to make sure users are safe and their communication experience is enjoyable. Subsequent analysis detected around 1 300 files that have names similar...

Due to the impact of the coronavirus on semiconductor supply and demand, worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to decline 0,9% in 2020, according to Gartner. This is down from the previous quarter's forecast of 12,5% growth. "The wide spread of Covid-19 across...

Global interest in streaming platform Netflix has risen by 142% over the past year. Data gathered by Learnbonds.com indicates that a significant number of people were interested in the platform from the first week of March 2020. At the start of March, the Netflix...

The African Development Bank Group has announced the creation of the Covid-19 Response Facility to assist regional member countries in fighting the pandemic. The facility is the latest measure taken by the bank to respond to the pandemic and will be the institution's...

A 165-strong international group including 92 former presidents and prime ministers, along with current economic and health leaders in the developed and developing world have come together to demand the creation of a G20 executive task force and an immediate global...

Finbold.com has launched the Coronavirus Research Index (CRI) to identify countries that are putting in the most effort in finding ways to manage the Covid-19 disease. The index ranks the countries based on the number of active medical coronavirus studies that show...