Author: Sandra Villars

SUB-SAHARAN Africa remains one of the world’s youngest, fastest-growing regions – home to more than 1 billion people, half of whom will be under 25 by 2050. But to enable transformation and boost shared prosperity, Africa needs investment, and to unlock capital on a large scale, better corporate disclosure practices are needed – including banks disclosing the impact of their financing. Why? Because most investors are becoming subject to similar demands and will simply not release capital without such disclosures in the future, and because the entire stakeholder landscape of the next generation – from customers to regulators to employees…