INVESTMENT BANKING

Capital Raising

Work with a top-tier African capital raising partner

With an impressive track record in raising debt and equity capital backed by extensive financial capabilities, we are well positioned to develop a bespoke solution for your business. Our African market presence enables us to facilitate cross-border transactions in various currencies, and our international presence provides access to global funding and the realisation of global growth.

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Debt Capital Markets

Access capital to meet your objectives

Our team ranks among the top lenders in our field due to our unique approach in merging advisory services with extensive capabilities to assist our corporate, financial and public sector clients.

We offer tailored debt raising solutions for BEE finance, term debt funding, debt syndication, bridging facilities and share funding, as well as commercial paper, corporate, hybrid and municipal bonds and structured finance options.

Equity Capital Markets

Get leading access to investment capital

Our equity capital markets capabilities provide access to pools of capital for investment on the continent from local and global investors.

Our competencies include initial public offerings, rights issues, follow-on offerings and convertible bonds. We also provide investor relations advisory and corporate access services to leverage interaction with local and global institutional investors.

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Latest insights

Absa CIB equity capital markets team have directly supported three of the JSE’s leading corporates in raising equity in a challenging COVID environment. The leading corporates in their respective sectors of gold mining, real estate and fashion apparel retail have proven to the market that quality corporates will be supported by investors.

RESOURCES AND ENERGY

How Africa Can Turn Fragmented Mineral Belts into Coherent Regional Value Chains

In 2023, a mine operating along the Central African Copperbelt moved its first test consignment through the Lobito Corridor, using the refurbished rail spine that links the Democratic Republic of Congo to Angola’s Atlantic coast. Roughly 1100 tonnes of copper concentrate from the Kamoa-Kakula complex in Kolwezi were loaded at the Impala Terminals facility and sent west by rail to the Port of Lobito

RESOURCES AND ENERGY

What Gold and Copper Tell Us About the New Logic of Mining Investment in Africa

When gold broke through the US$4,000 mark in October last year to reach new record highs, the market saw it as investors seeking a safe haven in the midst of economic and political turbulence. But it was also driven by the fear of missing out, with the gold trade in physical, ETFs, and gold miners since becoming a crowded trade.

RESOURCES AND ENERGY

Botswana and Ghana Show How Africa’s Mining Agenda Is Moving Inward

It is often said that Africa holds close to a third of the world’s known reserves of the minerals essential to the energy transition and to emerging industrial technologies. The figure appears so frequently in policy papers and investor decks that it has become almost rhetorical, a shorthand for potential rather than a measure of realised strategy. But that is beginning to shift, at least at a discernibly faster pace.

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