Abuja, 02 Oct. 2019: –The President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Prof. Benedict Oramah, yesterday in Abuja, urged Nigeria to set up a specialized agency to enable it take advantage of the opportunities offered by the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Delivering the keynote address at the 2019 Independence Day

Cairo, 26 Sept. 2019: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the FCI, Quarterback and University of Malta, today in Cairo announced the opening of registration for the 2020 cohort of the Certificate of Finance in International Trade (COFIT 2020) programme. The programme, which is open to banking and trade finance professionals from

  New York, 26 Sept. 2019: – The President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Prof. Benedict Oramah, yesterday in New York, urged African countries to create vehicles that would make it possible for manufacturers to trade across the continent. Speaking during a high-level event on the Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa 2016-2019, organised

Kampala, 20 Sept. 2019: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) today in Kampala concluded the formalities for the take-off of its East Africa Branch Office in Kampala as it signed the two principal documents with the Government of Uganda at a ceremony witnessed by President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Cairo, 17 Sept. 2019: – Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) has signed on to the Afreximbank Trade Facilitation programme (AFTRAF) for an initial $50-million line of credit, becoming the first Angolan bank to sign on to the programme offered by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) with the aim of supporting African banks to bridge the

Cairo, 16 Sept. 2019: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced the opening of registration for its 20th Afreximbank Trade Finance Seminar and Workshop, which will take place in Durban, South Africa, from 4 to 7 November 2019. The seminar and workshop series, formerly known as the Structured Trade Finance Seminar and Workshop, is

Lagos, 04 Sept. 2019: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) will allocate $500 million from its Nigeria-Africa Trade and Investment Promotion Programme to support Nigerian manufacturers to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) agreement, Bank President Prof. Benedict Oramah, has announced in Lagos. Prof. Oramah, who was

29 August 2019 – MUFG Bank today in Yokohama City, Japan, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to provide a broad framework for collaboration between the two organizations. Signed on Tuesday at the seventh TICAD event in Japan, the MOU will further strengthen the relationship between

Chicago, U.S., 05 Aug. 2019: – Efforts to achieve market opening should be accompanied with industrialization and capacity building initiatives to help African countries produce value-added goods, Kanayo Awani, Managing Director of the Intra-African Trade Initiative at the African Export-Import (bank (Afreximbank), has said. In a keynote address during the opening of the Trade with

Cairo, 18 July 2019: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has appointed Idrissa Diop, formerly of Ecobank Transnational Inc., as its new Director of Compliance. Mr. Diop, who, until his appointment, was Ecobank’s Group Head of Compliance, replaces Maureen Mba, who retired from Afreximbank in May after a long meritorious service. The new Director comes

  Niamey, 09 July 2019: – The organisers of the Second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2020) expect it to surpass the achievements of the inaugural trade fair held in Cairo in 2018 by attracting 10,000 participants and generating intra-African trade and investment deals worth more than $40 billion, Prof. Benedict Oramah, President of the African Export-Import

Niamey, 8 July 2019: – Prof. Benedict Oramah, President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), yesterday in Niamey, addressed the 12th Extraordinary Summit of African Union (AU) Heads of State, announcing a series of initiatives to support the implementation of the Agreement for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Prof. Oramah told the heads