Cairo, 06 March 2018: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) will support the Ghana Export-Import Bank (GEXIM) to achieve its objective of playing significant role in driving Ghana’s industrialisation agenda, Dr. Benedict Oramah, President of the continental trade finance institution, said today in Cairo. “We are very eager and very enthusiastic to work with GEXIM,”

Cairo, 05 March 2018:- The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) can support Egyptian business women in expanding their trading activities into other African countries, participants in the Fourth Annual Multinational Conference of the Association of Business Women in Egypt (BWE 21) were told. Maureen Mba, Afreximbank’s Associate Director in Charge of Compliance, who represented the Bank at

Cairo, 23 February 2018: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has signed a three-year $300 million revolving global credit facility agreement to provide financing to Export Trading Company (ETC) in a bid to support and promote intra-African trade. The facility agreement, signed recently between Afreximbank and ETC, provides for the funds to be used to

                Cairo, 23 February 2018: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced the appointment of two staff members to Directorship positions to head its Communications and Events Management Department and Treasury and Markets Department respectively. Obi Emekekwue was named Director and Global Head of the Communications and

Nouakchott, 19 February 2018: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) will attract $1.5 billion to Mauritania to finance development of trade and related infrastructure under the terms of a memorandum of understanding signed with the country on Monday, Bank President Benedict Oramah has announced.   Speaking in Nouakchott on Monday following meetings with President Mohamed

Dakar, 13 February 2018:- African countries should take make use of factoring in order to take advantage of the opportunities for expanding the continent’s regional value chains, participants at a regional factoring conference held in Dakar have heard. Kanayo Awani, Managing Director of the Intra-African Trade Initiative at the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), said on

Cairo, 09 February 2018: – Nigeria has emerged the host country for the 2018 African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Annual Meetings (AAM2018) and 25th Anniversary celebrations scheduled to take place from 9 to 14 July, the Bank announced today in Cairo. Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Finance of Nigeria, conveyed the country’s readiness to host the event

Cairo, 02 February 2018: – President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan has commended the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) for the important role it has continuously played to promote trade and economic development in Sudan, which is one of the founding shareholders and member states of Afreximbank. President al-Bashir, who was speaking in Addis Ababa when he

Cairo, 29 January 2018: – Continuing the broadening of its shareholder base targeting African investors, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced the coming on board of Angola-based pan-African conglomerate Aenergy as a shareholder, following its successful subscription to Class “B” shares of the African multilateral trade finance bank The shareholding became effective on 25

Cairo, 22 January 2018: – JSC Russian Export Centre (REC) has become the latest international financial organisation to join the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) as a shareholder following its successful subscription to Class “C” shares of the African multilateral trade finance bank The shareholding, which became effective on 29 December 2017, followed discussions between the

Jeddah, December 24, 2017. The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private sector (ICD) and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) signed a Line of financing agreement for a USD 100-million facility. The USD 100-million line of financing facility will be utilized by Afreximbank to provide Shariah-compliant financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in

Cairo, 22 December 2017: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the FCI and the University of Malta today in Cairo announced the opening of registrations for the 2018 cohort of the Certificate of Finance in International Trade (COFIT). Stephen Kauma, Afreximbank’s Director & Global Head of the Human Resources Department, said that COFIT 2018, which