Muhamet FALL
Muhamet Bamba Fall is Director for Industries of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group. In addition to overseeing global business origination, strategy development, and client coverage for Industries (infrastructure, energy, agribusiness, services, and general industry), he is also responsible for co-managing the new World Bank […]
Side Event – AfDB
Strategic Roundtable | Reinforcing credit bureaus & thwarting NPLs: Turning Africa’s credit data desert into an oasis
Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French-Portuguese translation available. Strengthening credit data could be a route to better risk pricing, lower non-performing loans (NPLs) and greater private-sector lending. Few African markets have “fully functioning” credit reporting, and those that do hold only “limited” MSME customer data, according to IFC. Alternative […]
Strategic Roundtable | Beyond a 1% infrastructure allocation: How can insurers join the blended finance mix?
Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French-Portuguese translation available. The continent’s insurance industry holds around $441bn in assets, the global insurance industry $42 trillion. The long-duration liabilities of life insurers make them well suited to long-term horizon infrastructure projects. Insurers’ asset allocation to infrastructure globally however stands at around 1% […]
Masterclass AWS
Panel | Capital with impact: Mobilising private investment for transformative growth in Africa
African countries are facing rising financing needs whether to support SMEs, climate adaptation, women’s entrepreneurship, or infrastructure – at a time when fiscal space is tightening. Africa has trillions of dollars in domestic assets – pension funds, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds. But much of that money sits in low-yield government securities instead of […]
Ericsson Side Event
AFIS-Deloitte Barometer | Findings from the 2026 industry survey
What are Africa’s financial executives most confident about – and what keeps them up at night? The 6th AFIS-Deloitte Barometer reveals preliminary findings from this year’s survey of senior leaders across banking, insurance, fintech and capital markets, covering economic confidence, AI investment, risk exposures and sustainable finance.
Strategic Roundtable | Redirecting $5bn a year in cross-border payment and diaspora remittance value back to Africa
Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French-Portuguese translation available. Africa forfeits an estimated $5 billion to the high cost of moving money across its borders. Sending $200 costs 8.46% on average, against a global average of 6.36%, making Sub-Saharan Africa the world’s most expensive remittance destination. A Kenya-to-Nigeria payment still […]
Keynote opening | How can a ‘New African Financial Architecture’ combat a $400bn development finance gap?
Africa faces a $400bn annual development finance gap as official lending weakens and market borrowing costs rise. ODA from OECD countries fell an estimated 7% in 2024, with further declines projected. Market financing is helping fill the gap – but at a price: Africa’s marketable sovereign debt has risen to 30% of GDP from 13% […]