BizInfo Africa · Business Intelligence
See What They See
Nairobi · Serving East Africa
Lenders, corporate buyers, and investors assess your business before they ever meet you. BizInfo Africa shows you what they check: a podcast, a journal, and tools built from due diligence practice across East Africa. And when you are the one doing the assessing, we show you who you are dealing with.
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60 questions. About 12 minutes. See how ready your business looks to the lenders, buyers, and investors who assess it.
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Episode 4
James Opembe
Fifteen years in business intelligence across East Africa, screening businesses on behalf of the lenders, buyers, and investors who assess them, through Metropol, Standard Investment Bank, and now ASAP. The Road to Success and the Emerge Africa Journal publish what that work keeps finding.
Field Notes From The Due Diligence Desk
What screening businesses across East Africa keeps turning up: how large buyers actually decide, why solid clients drop suppliers without warning, and where the paperwork and the reality part ways.
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The Debtors Book Was Wrong. Why Did Nobody Check?
I remember sitting in a management meeting early in my career while the finance department presented its debtors book. The familiar complaints followed. Customers were taking too long to pay. Collections were difficult. Outstanding invoices were becoming a problem.
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Kenya’s Macro-Micro Gap: Why Growth Can Coexist with Household Pressure
National output can expand while households and small businesses struggle with the cost of essentials, uneven income growth and tight working capital. To understand the gap, the headline figures need to be read alongside employment quality, household budgets and the cost of doing business.
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Heir Tracing in Africa: How We Found a Family Out of Reach for Over 11 Years
Heir tracing in Africa works by starting with the little that is known about the deceased, working back to a home area, and using local investigative experience and community networks to find the family. It is slow, but it works. We recently did exactly this for the estate of a Europe-based Kenyan professional whose children had not been located for over 11 years. The search took more than 18 months.
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