Panel | Beyond market linkages: Can harmonised listings unlock cross-border liquidity across Africa?
Three years after launch, the African Exchanges Linkage Project (AELP) has generated just 21 transactions and 6,160 shares traded, worth $8,670 as of 1 January 2026 – a symbolic volume for a platform meant to connect a continent. Africa’s stock exchanges remain fragmented, with different listing rules, disclosure standards and settlement systems limiting cross‑border investment […]
Panel | The 10:1 golden ratio: Can Africa finally crack the private capital mobilisation formula?
Every public sector dollar raised for Africa should pull in ten private sector dollars, a goal championed by African development finance leaders. Two different capital pools stand between ambition and reality. International institutional investors remain wary of African exposure despite thirty years of Global Emerging Markets data putting Sub-Saharan Africa’s private lending default rate at […]
Panel | From field to finance: Making African agri-finance bankable at scale
Around 5% of financial credit reaches African agriculture, a sector central to GDP, employment and food security. Yet momentum is building. This year alone Ecobank (€300m with Proparco), Coris (€80m via EBID) and KCB (two facilities worth ~$197m) each secured major DFI backing for agri-finance, while 16 financial institutions in May formed an Africa AgriTrade […]
Strategic Roundtable | Engineering manufacturing and agro-processing PE funds that crowd in institutional capital
Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French-Portuguese translation available. Africa’s own private capital is largely bypassing its widest industrial gaps: manufacturing and agro-processing. Though the continent closed 2025 as the only region globally to record growth in private capital deal volume, up 8%, private capital directed to agro-processing came “under […]
Panel | The ‘growth reset’: Crowding in private capital as the era of easy globalisation unwinds
The IMF wants a “growth reset” for Africa built on private investment, but conditions have become less favourable. “Globalisation is no longer happening on easy mode,” says NinetyOne, a major African asset manager, as the era of cheap commodities ends and support for economic integration fades. Africa drew $70bn in FDI in 2025, its third […]
Business Case | AI in financial services: How to join the 1 in 20 generating returns
Today, just 5% of AI projects launched by corporates globally succeed in generating a return on investment. At Africa-level, more than half of banks report high implementation costs and struggles integrating AI into legacy systems. Despite early barriers, the AfDB anticipates that AI use in the financial sector could add $80bn to Africa’s economy by […]
Disrupters Club Roundtable | Optimising fintech-central bank engagement
Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French-Portuguese translation available. Half of fintechs feel regulation “acts as a constraint rather than a catalyst”, a Central Bank of Nigeria survey found this year as it plans to overhaul its engagement approach. Absent policy co-creation platforms, scarce fintech-central bank dialogue and sparse regulatory […]
Strategic Roundtable | How can regulatory passporting expand beyond payments?
Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French-Portuguese translation available. In most monetary unions, one licence opens many markets. Wave’s BCEAO e-money licence, secured in April 2022, gave it access to eight WAEMU countries. Outside regional blocs, expanding financial institutions get no such shortcut and must navigate separate licensing and compliance. […]
Strategic Roundtable | Scaling agricultural index insurance to support food security and agri-finance
Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French-Portuguese translation available. Climate shocks caused substantial damage to a third of Africa’s overwhelmingly rain-fed farm plots between 2008 and 2019, deterring commercial banks from smallholder lending. Index insurance tied to rainfall or yield triggers could protect farmers from natural disasters, which cost Africa […]
CFO Exchange | Tackling the 40+ African currency challenge facing businesses
Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French-Portuguese translation available. African currencies have depreciated 65% against the dollar since 2007. For CFOs, this means higher procurement costs, tighter working capital and earnings volatility. Hedging instruments remain scarce and short-dated, rarely extending beyond 12 months, and are priced for deeper liquidity than […]