Africa’s private equity exit crisis has produced a secondary market response — but it is nascent, dominated by DFI-to-DFI transactions, and missing the GP-led continuation vehicles that have become standard everywhere else. The infrastructure is being built from scratch.
Month: April 2026
27 posts
Nigeria Fintech M&A Pipeline Q2 2026: Who Is Buying the Compliance Laggards?
The CBN compliance deadline is behind Nigeria’s fintech sector. The M&A wave is beginning. BETAR maps the five most credible acquirers, the three categories of distressed target, and the deal structures most likely to close before year-end.
Africa Tech IPO 2026-2027: Exchange Infrastructure, Readiness Scorecard and the Jumia Lesson
Chapter 5 of BETAR’s Africa Capital Markets Series. Which companies are approaching public market readiness — and which exchange can actually absorb an African tech IPO? BETAR’s readiness scorecard for Moniepoint, Wave, Onafriq, and Breadfast.
Africa’s Offshore Wind Paradox: 100GW Announced, Zero Commissioned
Africa has extraordinary offshore wind resources and a pipeline of announced projects exceeding 100GW. Commissioned capacity is precisely zero megawatts. BETAR investigates the regulatory failures, financing gaps, and cost economics blocking the continent’s most-discussed but least-delivered energy frontier.
Nigeria Bank M&A Wave 2026: Who Acquires the Recapitalisation Failures — and at What Price?
Chapter 3 of BETAR’s CBN Recapitalisation Arc. With Polaris, Keystone, and Union Bank non-compliant after March 31, the M&A intelligence question is now live: who buys these assets, at what valuation, and what does the deal look like?
Africa’s Carbon Headroom Is Being Sold at a Discount: How Bilateral ITMO Deals Are Pricing in the Wrong Future
Twelve African countries have signed Article 6.2 bilateral carbon credit agreements with Switzerland, Japan and Singapore. The credits are real. The prices are low. And every tonne sold reduces the seller country’s NDC budget at exactly the moment COP30 will demand accountability.
GITEX Africa 2026: What the Deals and Announcements Signal for African Tech H2
GITEX Africa 2026 delivered Morocco’s Maroc Digital 2030 strategy and its AI Made in Morocco initiative, a cybersecurity diagnosis from MTN’s CISO, and the Supernova Challenge startup competition. BETAR.africa assesses which signals from Marrakech are load-bearing and which are noise.
GITEX Africa Day 2: MTN’s CISO on Why Africa Is Building Faster Than It Can Secure
The STAR Summit put Africa’s cybersecurity readiness gap on the main stage for the first time. MTN Group CISO Justin Williams delivered the diagnosis. GITEX Africa’s fintech track wrestled with who governs digital money across 54 countries.
GITEX Africa Day 1: AI Governance Takes Centre Stage in Marrakech
Morocco’s Maroc Digital 2030 strategy, hyperscale data centre commitments, and 800 startups competing in the Supernova Challenge headline the first day of GITEX Africa 2026 in Marrakech.
AfDB Mission 300: Two Years, $20B Committed — Three Million Connections Confirmed
The African Development Bank…