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IPOs Listing Requirements – The View from Two Corners of the World

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Understanding the listing requirements and the marketplaces in which a company wishes to be listed is an important aspect of a company’s decision to go public. In the UK exchanges, for example, a company (UK origin or international) needs to select between the London Stock Market (main market) and Alternative Investment Market (AIM)[1] to start the listing process. The main market is designed for companies with operating track records and larger funding aspirations. AIM, on the other hand, is built Read more […]

Flinstone – Last of the Stone-Age IPOs

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As Ethiopia is gearing up to open its capital market, the Capital Market Authority and Securities Exchange are going full steam with the fund-raising road show for the latter with a target opening of 2024. As ambitious as it is, it’s happening. To add fuel to the momentum, the School of Commerce and the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) have also recently started training professionals, intending to increase the talent pool in the market. Amid all this, one of the real estate Read more […]

Ethiopian Coffee Export Performance and Global Trends

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Export proceeds from coffee reached new heights as the country collected USD1.01B in the first ten months of the current 2021/22 FY. According to the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority, proceeds increased due to the focus on specialty export and price increase internationally. The evidence internationally supports the claim from the Authority as the world’s largest producer – Brazil struggled with frost[1] resulting in unprecedented price increases globally. But the country has shown signs of recovery Read more […]

The Opportunities in the Transport Sector in Ethiopia

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With a population of 110 million people, Ethiopia has one of the most underdeveloped transport and logistic sectors in the world, according to the World Bank’s 2016 Logistics Performance Index (LPI) which ranked the country 126 out of 160. The sector faces many challenges in Ethiopia, including a historically very limited private sector involvement (foreign and local) and a lack of integration between government entities, especially the Ministry of Revenue and Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Read more […]