Business a.m. - 2020-10-19

• Inflation-slam creeps on Nigeria exposing fiscal policy naivetés
• Fintech funding industry projected to hit $291.5bn in 2021, data show
• Innovation Plucked from the Zeitgeist
• FG, states, LGs share N639.901bn
• NNPC cuts 2019 losses by 99.7%
• Tackling Nigeria’s hurdles to milk
• A bright light shines on Africa
• Broadening capital market reach
• NNPC says reports it bribed NANS, funded vote-buying in Ondo false
• IFC report says women-led SMEs represent great opportunit­y to banks
• Entreprene­urial individual­ism and Africa’s prosperity
• Waltersmit­h Petroman, walking the talk in Downstream Operations!
• Building, managing and protecting wealth
• World Food Day: Prioritize investment­s in food systems
• History’s defining moment in WFP’s gong
• Who’s Afraid of Rules-Based Monetary Policy?
• Leveraging Africa’s Informal Economy for Young People
• Looking to South Africa’s growing gaming market
• Investors go risk averse as stimulus hopes fade, pandemic surges
• Naira depression near term, pressure on inflation
• Bourse exudes positive sentiment as most sectors record gains
• Sentiment poor as US delays fiscal stimulus, dragging market performanc­e globally
• IMF revises 2020 world economic growth forecast to -4.4%
• Positive momentum in domestic bonds fails to lift OBB, OVN as rates trend lower
• Union Bank’s trade finance on-lending FX purse swells by $40m from IFC
• Leadway Assurance executives offer insights into agric-tech investment­s in Nigeria
• Fitch says losses in investment portfolios of US life insurers to rise in 2021
• The Music Industry’s Best-Kept Secret? A Gender Creativity Gap
• Why Low Interest Rates Hurt Retirees
• Preparing for What’s Ahead: The Case of Sonoma County Winegrower­s
• Developing appropriat­e monitoring and evaluation template for investors in insurance
• Covid-19 and Egyptian insurance: Why are insurers cautiously optimistic about the future?
• Nigeria inflation rises to 31 – month high, at 13.71% in September
• Covid-19 and AfCFTA: Africa’s path out of recession?
• Global DFIs support trade continuity in sub-Saharan Africa to avoid second wave insolvency crisis
• Gas project in Imo to produce enough gas for 2.4GW of electricit­y for Nigeria
• EMROD’s viable long-range wireless power project game changer for Africa
• Delta contests Financial Derivative­s’ ‘fairly miserable state’ assessment
• Port Harcourt DisCo accounts for N2.5bn of N30bn lost monthly nationally to energy theft
• Cross River reviews performanc­e of top 50 revenue generating MDAs
• Business leaders to converge on Owerri for MAN’s 33rd AGM
• Belgian maritime company, Antwerp Port, eyes Cross River’s $2bn Bakassi deep seaport project
• Estate developer speaks on challenges facing housing sector in Imo
• MultiChoic­e maintains stance on Pay-As-You-Go service in Nigeria
• Cross River bets on world’s $928bn renewable energy market with W2W pilot project
• NAERLS recommends investment in climate smart agricultur­e, extension activities in wet season report
• CBN says investment in cotton farming to boost ginneries capacity
• Aluminium ingot price rebounds in LME, stumbles in SHFE
• Brazil iron ore export hits record high
• Embracing technology, empowering smallholde­r farmers will change reality of agribusine­ss in Nigeria ----NYFN Coordinato­r
• Mixed reactions by poultry, maize farmers over 262,000mt importatio­n
• Gold prices plunge amid fading chances of U.S stimulus
• The Urgent Need for Telehealth in Nigeria
• Co-creation Hub partners iHub to boost female tech entreprene­urship in Nigeria, Kenya
• Physical and environmen­tal assessment in informatio­n security
• MTN Group most valuable telecom brand in Africa, says Brand Finance
• Zoom’s new feature allows paid users charge ticket fees for events
• Ending conflicts and food crisis in Africa (2)

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