GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC -The Cairo-based African Export-Import Financial institution (Afreximbank) will host its two-day Afreximbank Guyana Roadshow 2025 from Wednesday. This marks the most recent in a sequence of initiatives undertaken right here for the reason that Financial institution partnered with Guyana in 2022.
“This occasion underscores our dedication to inclusive financial progress by unlocking alternatives for native content material participation. It additionally supplies a platform to demystify Afreximbank’s broader mandate as a pan-African establishment driving transformational change,” a financial institution spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
The occasion, which can be held beneath the theme “Empowering Native Content material Participation for Sustainable Prosperity By the Implementation of Afreximbank Mandate,” is being organized in partnership with the Guyana authorities.
The organizers hoped to draw roughly 150 representatives from authorities establishments, producers, monetary our bodies, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and the oil and fuel sector.
They mentioned that since collaborating with the federal government almost three years in the past, Afreximbank has efficiently hosted the AfriCaribbean Commerce and Funding Discussion board 2023, signed a US$100 million commerce finance facility with JE Vitality for crude oil exports, and made a landmark one billion US greenback dedication to advertise native participation within the oil and fuel trade.
Established in 1993, Afreximbank mentioned its core mission is to stimulate and develop intra- and extra-African commerce, with a rising footprint within the Caribbean. Its regional workplace, based mostly in Bridgetown, Barbados, is main the Caribbean engagement and can spearhead this yr’s Guyana Roadshow.
The 2025 Roadshow will highlight the Financial institution’s one billion US greenback oil service financing facility, which goals to empower Guyanese companies by showcasing its suite of economic and non-financial merchandise.
Afreximbank mentioned it had recognized a number of strategic initiatives inside Guyana that would catalyze intra-regional commerce and financial development.
