Absa Group - Official Banking Partner

Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Absa is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with around 38 000 employees, across 12 African countries, the UK and the US. Absa’s purpose is to bring your possibilities to life. We are inspired by the people we serve and Africanacity – the unique way people find to get things done. We offer local solutions to local challenges and provide a range of retail, business, corporate and investment, wealth management and insurance solutions.  We are determined to be an organisation that is respected globally and that Africa can be proud of. For our people, we create a culture that appreciates, unifies and differentiates us from our competitors.For our customers, we create seamless experiences to engage and delight. For society, all our employees lead with a conscience… doing the best for people and the planet. For more information please visit www.absa.africa

AFC, an investment grade multilateral finance institution, was established in 2007 with an equity capital base of US$1 billion, to be the catalyst for private sector-led infrastructure investment across Africa. AFC’s investment approach combines specialist industry expertise with a focus on principal investments, financial and technical advisory, project structuring, project development and risk capital to address Africa’s infrastructure development needs and drive sustainable economic growth. AFC invests in high-quality infrastructure assets that provide essential services in the core infrastructure sectors of power, natural resources, heavy industry, transport, and telecommunications. To date, the Corporation has invested over US$6.6 billion in projects within 30 countries across Africa.

Afreximbank - Official Strategic Partner

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is the foremost Pan-African multilateral financial institution devoted to financing and promoting intra- and extra-African trade. The Bank was established in October 1993 by African governments, African private and institutional investors, and non-African investors. Its two basic constitutive documents are the Establishment Agreement, which gives it the status of an international organization, and the Charter, which governs its corporate structure and operations.

Aon - Official Strategic Partner

Aon plc (NYSE:AON) is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results for clients by using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance.

Development Bank of Southern Africa (“DBSA”) - Official DFI Partner

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (“DBSA”) is a development finance institution wholly owned by the South African Government. Its purpose is to accelerate sustainable socio-economic development to improve the quality of life of the people in South Africa, SADC and Rest of Africa by providing financial and non-financial investments in the social and economic infrastructure sectors. The DBSA support South Africa’s regional integration agenda through providing development finance for infrastructure projects in four priority sectors; energy (including renewable energy and energy efficiency), transportation (road, rail and ports), bulk water and ICT, across Africa.

DLA Piper - Official Legal Partner

DLA Piper is a global law firm capable of taking care of the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business. With offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we represent more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice disciplines than virtually any other law firm in the world. Our lawyers have wide experience in arbitration, banking, competition and trade, as well as corporate crime and corporate finance. We have strong practices in employment, energy, hospitality and leisure, insurance, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions and have developed key teams in pensions, private equity, real estate, tax, and technology.

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) - Official Strategic Partner

A member of the World Bank Group providing political risk insurance and credit enhancement

We help draw international private capital to projects in developing countries by providing guarantees (political risk insurance and credit enhancement) to foreign investors and lenders.

PwC - Official Strategic Partner

PwC helps organizations and individuals create the value they're looking for. We're a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 276,000 people.

Control Risks - Official Risk Consulting Partner

Control Risks exists to make our clients succeed. We are a specialist risk consultancy that helps to create secure, compliant and resilient organisations in an age of ever-changing risk. Working across disciplines, technologies and geographies, everything we do is based on our belief that taking risks is essential to our clients’ success.

MUFG - Executive Partner

MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with over 2,700 locations in more than 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Standard Chartered Bank - Official Sustainable Investment Partner

As a leading international bank, we strive to help people and businesses prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. We offer banking services that help people and companies to succeed, creating wealth and growth across our markets. Our heritage and values are expressed in our brand promise – Here for good.

The Stonehage Fleming Group is the largest Family Office in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Stonehage Fleming provide counsel, management and implementation across the full spectrum of family wealth requirements. The Group advises on over GBP45bn of assets and has an investment business with more than GBP13bn under management for individuals, families and charities. Stonehage Fleming is majority owned by management and staff. The Group employs over 570 people in 11 offices across 8 geographies around the world.

4G Capital - Offical Tech Partner

4G Capital has supported micro-enterprises in Africa since 2013, providing financial literacy training with working capital loans to help small businesses grow sustainably.