Southern Africa: Zimbabwe Launches SME Exchange to Boost Business Financing

Zimbabwe has launched the Zimbabwe Entrepreneurship Exchange (ZEEX), a regulated capital markets platform designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises raise funding and eventually access the country’s public stock exchanges.

Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Minister Mthuli Ncube officially launched ZEEX in Bulawayo on Friday. Regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe, the platform complements the country’s existing capital markets infrastructure,…