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The African Export-Import Bank's latest trade report, 'Leveraging Geopolitics for Trade and Industrialisation in Global Africa', says geopolitical tension and trade fragmentation present opportunities for the continent if it accelerates industrialisation, intra-African trade and value-added processing. It reiterates that Africa's trade finance gap stood at about $74-billion in 2025, limiting exporters' access to financing, and calls for faster implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area and deeper financial-sector reforms to ease credit access for small and medium-sized businesses.
UAE export credit agency backs Gerald Group with $50-million metals facilityEtihad Credit Insurance, the United Arab Emirates' federal export credit agency, has supported a three-year $50-million finance facility for Gerald Metals, a Geneva-based subsidiary of Gerald Group, with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank as lender. The deal, Gerald Group's first ECI-backed financing, diversifies its funding platform and supports metals trade flows tied to energy transition, technology and industrial demand.
Afreximbank's $10-billion Gulf crisis facility supports fuel and food securityAfreximbank's $10-billion Gulf Crisis Response Programme, launched on March 31, 2026, continues providing foreign exchange liquidity and pre-export finance to African and Caribbean States affected by Middle East-related disruptions to oil, gas, fertiliser and food imports.
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International business district that drives the flow of global trade through Dubai, DMCC, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Botswana Stock Exchange Group (BSE), operator of...
Gerald Metals Sàrl, the Geneva-based subsidiary of a leading independent commodity trading company, Gerald Group, has successfully closed a three-year $50-million finance facility supported by...
Africa must resposition its trade infrastructure to capture greater value from global economic shifts, with industrialisation, stronger intra-African trade and improved access to finance identified...
Africa must resposition its trade infrastructure to capture greater value from global economic shifts, with industrialisation, stronger intra-African trade and improved access to finance identified...
Africa's renewable energy transition is most often framed in terms of capital: how much has been committed, how much more is needed, and what financing structures might bridge the gap. That framing...
French development finance institution Proparco has announced the launch of the Africa AgriTrade Coalition, to scale up agricultural value chain trade financing across the continent. In addition to...
The German development bank KfW has become the latest shareholder in development insurer the African Trade and Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI), thereby further strengthening its capital...
In an effort to support African and Caribbean economies affected by the ongoing Middle East conflict, multilateral trade finance institution African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) reports that it...
Kevin Ssemwogerere, Business Development Strategy Head, Treasury and Trade Solutions at RMB The pending conflict and short-term ceasefire in the Middle East has materially disrupted global oil...
The World Bank Group has warned that the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is placing increasing pressure on global commodity markets and supply chains, with emerging market economies already...
Multilateral finance institution the African Export‑Import Bank (Afreximbank) and development finance institution the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) have signed a Master Risk...
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and Nedbank Group have announced a landmark financing agreement aimed at improving access to affordable housing in South Africa and expanding trade across...
Yes, you read correctly; it’s not a spelling error. Were you thinking that instead of the ‘E’ there should have been an ‘In’, and therefore it should read ‘Incoterms®’? As to why ‘Ecoterms’ is...
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