After a relatively nondescript start to 2010, Botswana’s domestic companies index (DCI) rose by nearly 5% in February, making it the month’s best performing Read more →

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The most common reason for a debtor not repaying credit is because he/she cannot afford to repay it. Consequently, he or she Read more →

At the peak of the credit bubble, observers noted that a “swell of private equity buyers, solid corporate profits, the availability of cheap debt Read more →

Credit and credit information play an important role in the Botswana economy and in the daily lives of its citizens. Read more →

In “Fool’s Gold,” Financial Times global markets commentator Gillian Tett writes that “versions of derivatives trading have existed for centuries,” citing “rudimentary examples Read more →

Back in late March, not long after the S&P registered its ominous 666 low, an understandably seething writer in The New York Times Read more →

Despite the IMF’s recent projection that Botswana’s economy will contract 10.3% this year, the lender expects a 4.1% uptick next year such that Read more →

Italian energy giant Eni S.p.A, which also owns interests in the Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Ghana, announced in late November its acquisition of Read more →

Credit rating agencies are often asked to assign issuer default ratings to companies that are tied together by a parent and subsidiary relationship.

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