{"id":467932,"date":"2026-09-07T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/sb_session\/opening-panel-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:00:53","slug":"opening-panel-2","status":"publish","type":"sb_session","link":"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/en\/sb_session\/opening-panel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Panel | Making capital count: Turning Africa\u2019s financial strength into an engine of growth and jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>African finance enters the next decade from a position of strength. Its institutions are more profitable, sophisticated and innovative than ever &#8211; but financial strength has yet to translate into enough capital for the businesses, farms, infrastructure and industries that will drive Africa\u2019s next phase of growth and job creation. Scale will matter. Yet bigger institutions alone will not close the gap. Africa\u2019s next generation of financial champions will need the reach and expertise to turn African savings into productive investment, finance fragmented and underserved markets, compete across borders and make African finance a stronger engine of growth and jobs.<\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>Key points<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Scale with purpose: How can consolidation, stronger balance sheets and cross-border expansion translate into greater capacity to finance productive investment rather than size for its own sake?<\/li>\n<li>Capital that reaches the economy: What will it take to channel more African savings and private capital towards businesses, agriculture and infrastructure \u2014 and create jobs at scale?<\/li>\n<li>Markets that make scale possible: How can technology, deeper financial integration and fit-for-purpose regulation extend the reach of African financial institutions across fragmented and underserved markets?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","evenement-salon":[250],"class_list":["post-467932","sb_session","type-sb_session","status-publish","hentry","evenement-salon-250"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Opening Panel | Making capital count: Turning Africa\u2019s financial strength into an engine of growth and jobs - The African Financial Summit Platform<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/en\/sb_session\/opening-panel-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Opening Panel | Making capital count: Turning Africa\u2019s financial strength into an engine of growth and jobs - The African Financial Summit Platform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"African finance enters the next decade from a position of strength. 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