INVESTMENT BANKING

Debt Financing

Invest in Africa with the right debt financing partner

By leveraging our deep regional knowledge – and our advisory, financing and capital raising expertise – our award-winning global team will tailor an ideal solution for your development needs to expand infrastructure, acquire assets or finance projects.

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Corporate Debt

Partner with a top lender in Africa

As a leading global arranger and underwriter of debt capital in high-yield markets, our Corporate Debt team ranks among the top in sub-Saharan Africa. We can assist you in with industry-leading solutions in origination, structuring, execution and distribution of all types of loans, spanning several specialist sectors.

Acquisition Financing

Plan your next move with trusted guidance and expertise

Our loans and syndication teams can assist you in integrating all aspects of strategic acquisition finance across the full lifecycle of a transaction to ensure that your business expansion goals are met.

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Commercial Property Financing

Commercial Property Finance

Partner with a team of multi-disciplinary specialists

Our team of experts continuously assess markets and monitor risks, advising clients using a data-driven approach to identify real supply-demand imbalances that present opportunities.

We tailor the ideal funding structure for our clients’ commercial property investment and development needs ­– from expanding infrastructure to acquiring or replacing assets and financing projects.

Leveraged Finance

Raise capital and leverage credit investing opportunities to excel in your sector

We support your growth ambitions with comprehensive debt financing solutions across all industry segments.

Whether you’re implementing corporate acquisitions, require assistance with BEE transactions or want to optimise your balance sheets, our team can assist in designing a purpose-built solution for you.

LEVERAGED FINANCE

Latest insights

Leading-edge thinking from our team of financial and sector experts.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Digital finance for AI-driven economies: Africa’s role in the next phase of cross-border commerce

Africa’s relevance to the evolution of global finance is significant. The continent’s experience, particularly in cross-border payments, provides a glimpse into what tomorrow’s increasingly digital, data-driven global financial system could look like.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Why Mauritius remains central to Africa’s next growth corridor

On 1 April 2021, India signed the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement, its first trade agreement with an African country. It was signed not with a mining economy or a manufacturing powerhouse, but with Mauritius, a jurisdiction whose value has less to do with the size of its own market than with what businesses can do from inside it.

DEALS

Absa supports Safaricom Ethiopia’s next phase of growth and digital transformation

A tailored financing solution enabling network expansion, digital infrastructure investment and greater financial inclusion across Ethiopia.

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