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The New African Financial Architecture for Development (NAFAD) is no longer a blueprint – it is a set of active choices about which institutions anchor it, where guarantees sit, and how risk is priced and distributed across the system. Three of its principal architects discuss where NAFAD intervenes in the regulatory, guarantee and risk assessment space, what balance-sheet capacity it can realistically\u00a0mobilise, and whether local-currency markets can reduce Africa’s structural exposure to costly foreign-currency debt. The conversation moves from diagnosis to decision.<\/div>\n

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    Where does NAFAD intervene – guarantee, first-loss, risk assessment – and what does that mean for existing DFIs?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Which\u00a0reforms\u00a0would\u00a0turn\u00a0the architecture\u00a0from\u00a0a coordination\u00a0framework\u00a0into\u00a0deployable\u00a0capital?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Can local-currency markets absorb enough sovereign risk to reduce dollar dependency at scale?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","evenement-salon":[250],"class_list":["post-468025","sb_session","type-sb_session","status-publish","hentry","evenement-salon-250"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGame changers | Capital architecture: A new age for African finance - 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\/game-changers-capital-architecture-a-new-age-for-african-finance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Game changers | Capital architecture: A new age for African finance - The African Financial Summit Platform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The New African Financial Architecture for Development (NAFAD) is no longer a blueprint – it is a set of active choices about which institutions anchor it, where guarantees sit, and how risk is priced and distributed across the system. 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