Raise the bar on ESG, but not at the expense of poverty: Op-Ed by Carolyn Campbell

Regulators from the SEC to Europe are clamping down on investment funds large and small for their ESG disclosures. The stringent regulatory environment is symptomatic of the great lengths to [...]

Abidjan – August 5, 2021: The pan-African fund manager Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), a leading private equity player on the continent, A.P. Moller Capital, a fund manager specialized in the [...]

ECP announced on February 3, 2021 that, through a recent acquisition of additional shares, it now has a shareholding stake over 5% in the Tunisian group Société d’Articles Hygiéniques (SAH), [...]

Togocel, the wireless communications service provider of ECP investee TogoCom, has received approval from Togolese regulatory authorities to begin testing 5G technology. The approval comes as one [...]

With international travel facing continued uncertainty amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, remittances on the African continent are moving from informal channels requiring travel and in-person [...]

Vincent Le Guennou, Founding Partner and CO-Ceo of ECP, expressed his gratitude to have had the opportunity to participate in the web conference “Soft power, Afri-capitalism and governance: [...]

June 23, 2020: Carolyn Campbell, Managing Director, Founding Partner, and Chief Operating Officer of Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) was invited to participate in a webinar organized by Invest [...]

What we see in Africa is a remarkable paradox where the economic shock is outpacing the dreaded health crisis. The peak of Covid-19 infections has probably not yet been reached, yet recession and [...]

May 5th 2020: ECP portfolio company Mukuru​, an international money operator and remittance company, has acquired​Zoona​ Malawi’s operational assets along with the technology systems that support [...]

March 11, 2020: Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) announces that portfolio company Eranove, a Pan-African utilities group, has signed a financing agreement for a 390 MW combined-cycle power plant [...]