Capital exists.
Mandates exist.
The gap is deployment.

Opening remarks

As Global Capital Reprices Risk, Can Africa Rely More on Its Own Savings?

Africa’s institutional capital pools are growing. What would allow more domestic savings to finance African businesses, infrastructure and productive assets while meeting the requirements of long-term institutional investors?

Who Sets the Price of African Risk?

How is African risk priced, and what would enable greater differentiation between markets, companies and issuers?

A conversation about ratings, information, local currency markets and the infrastructure required to deepen African capital markets.

Can Africa Build Capital Markets That Depend Less on Banks and Foreign Capital?

Between traditional bank lending and public markets lies a significant financing gap.

Can private credit, corporate debt and structured capital create a deeper market for African companies, and what financial infrastructure is needed to support it?

If Development Finance Is Scarce, Where Should Every Dollar Take Risk?

Where can development finance have the greatest catalytic effect?

From direct investment and local currency financing to guarantees and risk sharing, this conversation examines how development capital can help mobilise larger pools of private investment.

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Africa Built the Payment Rails. Who Builds the Credit Rails?

Africa’s payments revolution changed how money moves. What comes next?

This conversation examines the infrastructure required to move from payments at scale to credit at scale, from fintech and data to digital identity, underwriting and regulation.

Can Africa Finance Its SMEs Without Importing the Capital?

SMEs drive African economies, yet access to growth capital remains constrained.

Can domestic financial institutions, fintechs and private capital finance a greater share of African enterprise growth, and where can international and development capital have the greatest catalytic effect?

Africa Bears the Climate Risk. Can It Capture the Investment Opportunity?

Africa’s climate financing needs are substantial. But need alone does not create an investable market.

What business models, financial structures and measurement systems could transform adaptation, resilience and natural capital into investable opportunities?

Africa Is Building a Continental Market. Who Will Build the Capital Corridors?

African companies increasingly operate across borders. Trade and supply chains are becoming more regional and continental.

Yet much of the financial architecture supporting them remains national.

What would allow capital to move alongside African trade?

Can Africa build a continental trading market without building a continental market for capital?