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Investors in companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange will continue to receive headline earnings per share, but the closely watched figure will no longer form part of the audited IFRS financial statements.

Standard Bank Group, Africa’s biggest lender by assets, is considering acquiring a stake in Nigerian payments company OPay as the fintech prepares for a potential listing in the United States.

Egypt, Africa’s second-largest economy, is among the countries featured in Henley & Partners’ 2026 global ranking of citizenship-by-investment programmes, with its citizenship-by-investment route starting at $250,000.

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Across Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya, organizations are expanding their use of cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, digital services, and connected operations. But more technology does not automatically create stronger security operations; many security teams are not short on data, but rather on time, context, and specialist capacity.

Nigeria’s central bank has opened a regulatory testing programme to stablecoin providers and other virtual-asset businesses, marking another step in the country’s shift from restricting the crypto industry towards bringing one of Africa’s biggest digital-asset markets under formal supervision.