SA’s draft Capital Flow Management rules target illicit flows and set cross-border crypto rules without criminalising ownership; comment period to 30 June.
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Funding Locked: How Treasury Met Its US$3.2 Billion Foreign Target Early
Treasury met its full US$3.2bn foreign-funding target for 2026/27 early via concessional loans, with no further foreign RFPs until 2027/28.
Green Paper: How Treasury’s Bond Framework Opens a Climate-Finance Pipeline
Treasury’s Sovereign Use of Proceeds Framework (29 May 2026) sets the rules for green bonds, opening a credible climate-finance pipeline for South Africa.
Trade finance: the quiet plumbing behind Africa’s exports to China
Tariffs and protocols open the market, but a shipment only sails when someone finances it. The credit, insurance and bonds behind African exports rarely make headlines, yet they decide who can trade.
CADFund: The state vehicle quietly underwriting China’s Africa investments
A China Development Bank fund built to coax Chinese firms into Africa has committed roughly US$7.6bn across 39 countries. Its job is less to spend than to make others spend.
Industrial Parks as Gateways: Ethiopia’s FDI Bet, Measured at the Exit
Ethiopia’s parks pulled in record FDI and tens of thousands of jobs. The IFC’s diagnostic is admiring and wary in the same breath: the gateway works, but the road past it is congested.
Conduct Code: How the COFI Bill Rewrites the Rules for SA’s Financial Houses
Cabinet approved the COFI Bill 2026, consolidating market conduct under the FSCA with governance, transformation and disclosure duties for SA finance.
Green Industrial Chains: A US$700 Million Fund Bets on Africa Keeping the Value
A China-Africa Green Industrial Chain fund of about RMB 5 billion, with seven early projects approved, signals a next-phase pitch: not just power, but the supply chains around it – and the value they
Clean-Energy Contracting: RMB 21 Billion in Revenue, and a Question of Whose
China reports RMB 21.18 billion in contracted clean-energy project revenue since the Beijing Summit. The figure is real – the open question is how much of that contracting value lands in African