Nigeria's 2023 naira unification and subsequent float created acute FX shortages that locked importers out of Letters of Credit for months. The CBN's...
Murabaha, wakala, and ijara instruments are expanding access to trade finance for Muslim-majority markets in Somalia, Sudan, Northern Nigeria, Niger,...
Mining and oil project financing in Africa uses specialised structured finance techniques including commodity pre-payment facilities, off-take agreeme...
Structured trade finance, using commodity stocks and receivables as collateral, provides liquidity to African commodity traders and processors who lac...
Founded in 1993 with $500 million in capital, Afreximbank has grown into a $30 billion institution underwriting some of the continent's most transform...
African Trade & Investment Development Insurance and South Africa's ECIC provide credit insurance and guarantees that enable exporters to offer compet...
Global banks have terminated over 30 percent of African correspondent banking relationships since 2014, citing regulatory compliance costs. This de-ri...
The International Finance Corporation has deployed over $8 billion in African trade finance facilities since 2018, working through local banks to reac...
Trade credit insurance covers exporters against buyer non-payment, insolvency, or political risk preventing transfer of funds. In Africa, it is the mo...
Afreximbank deployed $32 billion in trade and project finance in 2023, making it the largest African-owned financial institution by annual disbursemen...
M-Pesa, MTN Mobile Money, and Orange Money collectively process $1 trillion in African transactions annually. Their integration with trade finance pla...
Invoice discounting and factoring are growing as SME-focused fintech lenders use buyer creditworthiness to extend working capital to small suppliers w...
Traditional L/C processing takes 5-10 days and costs $500-2,000 per transaction in Africa. Platforms like Contour, essDOCS, and TradeWindow are reduci...
The World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency has underwritten over $15 billion in African investment guarantees, enabling FDI into market...
Impact investors and development finance institutions are deploying blended finance structures that combine grant and concessional capital to crowd in...