{"id":3748,"date":"2025-03-12T00:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T00:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzz7.info\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2025-03-12T00:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T00:47:01","slug":"standard-bank-hosts-inaugural-african-markets-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/?p=3748","title":{"rendered":"STANDARD BANK HOSTS INAUGURAL AFRICAN MARKETS CONFERENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"group\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Johannesburg, 06 March 2025 \u2013 <\/strong>Standard Bank, the biggest bank in Africa by assets, is gearing up to host its first African Markets Conference (AMC).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<div>\n<p>The Conference, which will be held in Cape Town later this month, is a key element of Standard Bank\u2019s drive to improve integration and ease of doing business across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis game-changing conference will provide a tangible platform for crowding in of new capital flows from both on and offshore, uniting global and African sources of capital and risk appetite,\u201d explains Luvuyo Masinda, Chief Executive of Corporate and Investment Banking at Standard Bank Group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<div>\n<p>The Conference is being hosted at a time when the nascent African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) established in 2018 has seen broad ratification across 48 countries on the continent. The World Bank estimates that the agreement can potentially increase the continent\u2019s income by $450 billion in just over a decade and increase intra-African exports by more than 81%.<\/p>\n<p>The Conference will also encompass strategic panel discussions made up of diverse representative groupings inclusive of regulators, government representatives and influential people drawn from across the continent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAs a bank that is focused on the principle of driving continental growth with a unique international reach, this Conference is an important outlet to reiterate our commitment to the continent\u2019s growth leveraging our extensive networks to deliver concrete economic growth solutions that we believe can lead to broader development outcomes,\u201d concludes Masinda.<\/p>\n<p>Source : CNBC AFRICA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tp-2 pb-7 flex flex-col\" align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"text-xs text-gray-500 capitalize\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg, 06 March 2025 \u2013 Standard Bank, the biggest bank in Africa by assets, is gearing up to host its first African Markets Conference (AMC). The Conference, which will be held in Cape Town later this month, is a key element of Standard Bank\u2019s drive to improve integration and ease of doing business across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}