Frontclear has developed a visible and trusted position as thought leader in money market matters.
mediareleases
Frontclear feature in the ICMA Newsletter – p. 7212 July 2022
Frontclear closes another currency hedging transaction with Unibank and TCX in AzerbaijanJuly 2022. Frontclear arranged and structured an AZN/USD non-deliverable cross currency swap (NDCCS) transaction with Unibank Commercial Bank OJSC (Unibank). 6 July 2022
Frontclear Annual Report 2021With record guarantee issuance of USD 308 million, Frontclear’s guarantees facilitated USD 2,449 million in global interbank transactions in a difficult environment for frontier market banks. 29 June 2022
Frontclear publishes its Impact Report 2021Featuring multiple country cases in money and interbank market development. 23 June 2022
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Frontclear feature in the ICMA Newsletter – p. 7212 July 2022
FSD Africa Investments has announced a $3.2 million investment into MFS Africa and Frontclear meant to strengthen African financial markets.21 January 2020
MFS Africa secured a USD$1.2 million follow-on investment from FSD Africa Investments to support implementation of a new partnership with Visa. Meanwhile, Frontclear secured a USD$2 million investment from FSD Africa Investments to improve efficiencies and catalyse investment in the private sector
BOG GFIM Committee Launch Repo market Guidelines17 October 2019
The Banker Africa’s capital markets get fit for the modern ageKat Van Hoof 1 August 2019
research
Bond Market Governance and Oversight Frontclear Policy Brief #3: 202131 May 2022
Defining Interbank Impact Indicators. Frontclear Policy Brief #2:24 November 2021
Interbank Market Indicators: Robust measurement of development impact.2 November 2021
The study academically underpins the cornerstone position of interbank markets in financial markets, details the particular challenges in frontier markets and the important role of 'perceived' counterparty risk to their functioning. Finally, the study points to 6 market signals like interest rate spreads, unsecured v secured rates, maturity periods, etc, from which the researcher recommends 10 impact indicators to baseline and track the development of interbank markets over time. Frontclear commissioned a research study produced by Mrs. Esmie Kanyumbu, Senior Analyst at the Bank of Malawi and PhD researcher at the UK's Loughborough University.
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Accelerating Uganda’s repo market development11 February 2021
Accelerating Ghana’s repo market development25 November 2020
Debt capital markets in Africa – developments and challenges28 October 2020
