Our guy 👏🏽👏🏽 Geoffrey Lea

UPDATE: Kenya & the International Monetary Fund pull the plug on the 9th Review Kenya & the International Monetary Fund have agreed that the 9th Review under the ongoing US$3.6 billion EXCF/EFF programme will not proceed. IMF has received a formal request for a new programme &

Absa has poached Standard Bank Deputy CEO Kenny Fihla as its new CEO Kenny has resigned from Standard Bank, where he worked for 18 years His last day is Friday 13 June He rests that weekend & on the June 16 holiday before reporting for duty as Absa CEO on June 17 CNBC Africa

Kwenza B Standard Bank has a nice problem, they have a great succession plan in place, the fact that Absa needed to pouch Kenny says alot about their leadership development 👏🏽

Our chance to accelerate this is by increasing yields in low-income countries. While high income countries are at technology frontier, low-income countries are far behind it. Africa for example has a 60% yield gap, i.e. its yields are 60% behind what technology allows globally.

Very interesting pre-Spring Meetings 2025 speech by IMF MD Georgieva which addressed trade & international spillovers. A point about the chart below used to illustrate the size of Savings (S) & Investment (I) imbalances:

Kwa niaba ya Marekani, natuma salamu za pongezi kwa Rais Samia Suluhu Hassan na wananchi wa Tanzania katika maadhimisho ya miaka 61 ya kuundwa kwa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania. Marekani inathamini kwa dhati ushirikiano wetu wa muda mrefu na Tanzania, unaojengwa juu ya dhamira

Terrible Coach Dude can not couple with EPL intensity. With him relegation is expected as no amount of new players will serve him Geoffrey Lea

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👋 11 years ago today: Ryan Giggs made his final appearance for Manchester United. 🥹 He played for just one club in his senior career: Manchester United. Giggs spent a total of 27 years there. 963 appearances, 168 goals, 268 assists and 35 trophies won. Respect. 🔝

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Kenya's government has leased four public sugar factories for 30 years to private millers: —Nzoia will now be operated by West Kenya Sugar —Chemelil by Kibos Sugar —Sony by Busia Sugar —Muhoroni by West Valley Sugar

Been around for months now and still believe he will change much from next year. Good guy but not for EPL Geoffrey Lea

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“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John 14:27 NIV bible.com/bible/111/jhn.…

NBA Conference Finals:

Moody’s has upgraded Nigeria’s credit rating from Caa1 to B3, signalling growing confidence in the economy. ow.ly/V22F106az1r

No one had more cumulative influence on the macroeconomic policy makers of the last generation than Stanley Fischer. Central Bank governors Ben Bernanke, Mario Draghi and Kazuo Ueda were his students, as were many others like me, who served in other capacities. We all were shaped

Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has returned to the bank he worked at before entering politics on.ft.com/44C66Ni