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Dr Sidi Ould Tah, President of the African Development Bank Group, together with Samaila Zubairu, President &amp; CEO of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and Dr George Elombi, President &amp; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), discuss where NAFAD intervenes in the regulatory, guarantee and risk assessment space, what balance-sheet capacity it can realistically mobilise, and whether local-currency markets can reduce Africa&#8217;s structural exposure to costly foreign-currency debt. The conversation moves from diagnosis to decision.<\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>Key points<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Where does NAFAD intervene &#8211; guarantee, first-loss, risk assessment &#8211; and what does that mean for existing DFIs?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Which\u00a0reforms\u00a0would\u00a0turn\u00a0the architecture\u00a0from\u00a0a coordination\u00a0framework\u00a0into\u00a0deployable\u00a0capital?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>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":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Game 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=\"Conceived and championed by the African Development Bank Group, the New African Financial Architecture for Development (NAFAD) is an African-led initiative designed to reshape how development finance is mobilised, de-risked and deployed across the continent. 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