HARARE – The Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) says it is targeting to achieve $250 million capitalisation in 2018. This is way above the $100 million minimum capital requirements to be achieved by commercial banks by 2020. IDBZ chief executive Thomas Sakala said although the bank had developed a road map to reach its…
HARARE – Businessman and former ABC Holdings chairman Oliver Chidawu has bounced back into the banking sector after Heritage Financial Services — together with other seven microfinance institutions was granted a green light by the central bank to begin operations. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) registrar of financiers said, of the eight, five were moneylenders…
HARARE – Agro-industrial conglomerate CFI Holdings (CFI) has remained in the red despite reducing its loss to $3,3 million in the six months to March 2016 against a loss of $3,7 million loss recorded in the same period last year. The group’s acting chairperson, Grace Muradzikwa, yesterday said CFI’s operations were significantly affected by inadequate…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed hotel group, Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG), has closed its loss-making Beitbridge Hotel due to unsustainable operational costs. The hotelier yesterday said market factors characterised by depressed occupancies, low margins as well as high operating costs had greatly contributed to the decision to wind operations at the hotel, with the termination…
HARARE – Leading micro-financier FMC Finance (FMC) has availed a further $5 million to assist small-scale Zimbabwean farmers in securing inputs and other necessary equipment for the 2016/2017 agricultural season. This comes as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has ordered financial institutions to allocate 20 percent of their loan portfolios to the sector as well…
HARARE – Econet Wireless Zimbabwe subsidiary Steward Bank (Steward) has made its first profit since the telecommunications giant acquired the financial services provider in 2012. Steward said it made a profit after tax of $5,4 million in the full year to February 2016 compared to a loss of $8,3 million over the same period last…
HARARE – Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (Econet) says it will continue investing in infrastructure to diversify its revenue streams after the company’s mobile money platform, EcoCash, moved over $6,6 billion since its launch five years ago. “The local telecommunication industry in line with global trends is experiencing a decline in voice revenues. We long saw this…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s decision to “seize” 50 percent of all export proceeds into its nostro accounts as part of strategies to ease the biting liquidity crisis is tantamount to expropriation, a leading economist has said. This comes after the central bank last week directed local banks in receipt of all…
HARARE – Cooking oil producers anticipate a 30 percent slump in production from the current 8 000-10 000 metric tonnes (MT) being manufactured per month, on the back of payment delays to the sector’s suppliers. United Refineries chief executive Busisa Moyo last week told the businessdaily that payments to raw material suppliers were not being…
HARARE – Property investment and development firm, Mashonaland Holdings (Mash Holdings), has reported a five percent decline in revenue to $2,8 million in the half-year to March 2016 due to increasing void levels and downward rental reviews. In the period under review, the group’s rental yield fell to six percent from seven percent in prior…
