Financial and insurance activities

In an effort to improve service delivery and ensure the effective administration of Business and Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) registration, the Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA) has been established as an agency of the Ministry of Industrialization and Trade (MIT).

The ease with which an entrepreneur can set up and operate a business, and the protection of industrial property rights, are important business decisions. To this end, BIPA fulfills a critical function within Namibian society by solidifying government efforts toward business development in Namibia.

Thus

The Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority Act 2006 established the Non-bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA), after the endorsement (by Government) of the Carmichael Consulting Report, which recommended the setup of a single independent Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFI) regulator.

The Act grants NBFIRA the mandate to regulate and enforce compliance within the NBFI sector in order to safeguard the stability, fairness and efficiency of the non-bank financial sector.

As outlined in section 4 of the NBFIRA ACT, the principal objective on NBFIRA is to

Financial Planners & Investment Advisers that are qualified and independent, specialising in investment advice for private clients in Botswana.

Investment Portfolios 

For the last 20 years our team has been giving Financial Planning and Investment Advice in Botswana.Over those years we’ve honed our skills and our systems to help you build a secure, tailor- made investment portfolio for yourself.

We specialise in helping you invest - and improve your personal finances.

• learn to invest securely

• plan your Retirement

• fund your Children’s Education

• optimise your Investment

Acute Capital Partners is a business advisory services company. At Acute Capital Partners we pride ourselves in our ability to meet the needs of our clients locally, regionally and internationally, as well as our bespoke strength in pairing local equities with international investors.

LEADERSHIP

Acute Capital believes that the implementation of its business strategy requires active management by a team with significant experience in private equity investing, business operations and corporate strategy as well as a high level of financial expertise.

INVESTMENT APPROACH

Acute's approach to

Alimela Thuto is a financial institution in the quest to continue aiding Basotho students in getting a formal education. The company also aids and offers training services to nurses, correctional officers, teachers and police officers as well as assisting them with the registration process.

Thusano Financial Solution offers short term loans with its services available to:

• Private company's salaried employees,
• Public sector employees (stop-order facility available)
• Small businesses; and

Zecho Financial Services Ltd offers credit solutions to individuals and companies.

Zecho Financial Services is licensed under the financial institutions Act 2012 and Financial Institutions (credit Only and Deposit Taking Micro finance institutions)(Amendment) Regulations 2018 as a Credit Only and Deposit-Taking Micro Finance Institution tier III and Regulated by the Central Bank of Lesotho.

Lesotho PostBank (LPB) is 100 percent owned by the Lesotho Government and prides itself on being an indigenous bank that is wholly managed by Basotho. It was founded to provide banking services to under-banked and unbanked Basotho in both rural and urban areas and remains committed to its mandate of answering the challenge of financial exclusion in the country.

Licensed by the Central Bank of Lesotho, the LPB was incorporated in 2004 and started its operations in 2005, offering savings and deposit-taking services. In 2010 it diversified into lending and in 2012 introduced electronic

The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) was established at the end of 1989, marking a new dawn for all Namibians. As a professionally managed pension fund, GIPF continues to strive to be a leading pension fund and a model corporate citizen in Namibia. GIPF is also one of the few fully funded pension funds in Africa that have built up enough funds to cover its liabilities.

Kongalend is a development-oriented microfinance institution.

Kongalend Financial Services (Kongalend), is a Namibian pioneer development microfinance institution regulated by the Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (NAMFISA), (Ref. No. 25/11/356), under the Microlending Act, 2018 (Act No.7 of 2018). Kongalend provides a range of development-oriented credit products designed to meet the financial needs of low-income micro-entrepreneurs to unlock their economic potential, generate income and create jobs for their fellow citizens who cannot be absorbed into the formal economy.