About

Linkage Analytics is a macro-financial analytics and market intelligence platform focused on helping users understand financial markets through data, economic reasoning, and applied research.

The platform focuses on South African and global market developments, with particular attention to fixed income, equities, currencies, inflation, interest rates, sovereign risk, and cross-market connectedness.

Our Analytical Focus

Linkage Analytics combines financial economics, investment research, econometrics, and market data analysis to produce practical insights for investors, analysts, institutions, businesses, researchers, and policy-oriented audiences.

The aim is to move beyond simple reporting by asking three questions:

What changed in the data?
Why does it matter?
What should market participants watch next?

Markets

Rates, yields, equities, currencies, credit spreads, inflation, and financial conditions.

Risk

Sovereign risk, macro-financial stress, currency risk, credit conditions, and market vulnerability.

Modelling

Econometric modelling, forecasting, scenario analysis, stress testing, and connectedness analysis.

Research

Market briefs, dashboards, investment research notes, policy briefs, and custom analytical reports.

Founder Profile

Linkage Analytics is led by Jakubose Sibanda, PhD, a financial economist with expertise in applied econometrics, financial markets, macro-financial risk, investment research, and academic leadership.

His background combines finance and investment, operations research, statistics, econometrics, fixed income, market connectedness, sovereign risk, and quantitative modelling.