News
03 December 2018

Afreximbank extending local agent network to meet SME lending gap

Region:
Middle East & Africa

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is seeking to add 530 African commercial banks to its 170 agent banks across Africa, in a bid to extend financial services to SMEs. The new initiative is designed to bridge the lending gap left by international banks that have pulled out of Africa and to...

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