Closing Africa’s Trade Finance Gap

Access to trade finance remains critical to unlocking Africa’s trade and industrialisation potential. As a trade finance-focused multilateral development institution, Afreximbank recognises that closing the financing gap is essential to enabling African businesses, particularly SMEs, to participate more effectively in intra-African and global trade.

This webinar will move beyond the well-known challenges of the trade finance gap and focus on practical, actionable solutions. The discussion will explore innovative financing models, technology-enabled platforms, risk-sharing mechanisms, supply chain finance, and policy interventions that can expand access to finance for African SMEs, which continue to account for a significant share of rejected trade finance applications.     

Participants will gain insights into how targeted solutions can accelerate access to trade finance, strengthen SME participation in trade, and support Africa’s broader trade and industrialisation agenda.