INVESTMENT BANKING
Financing
Invest in Africa with an award-winning global finance team
Our finance solutions open the possibility for you and your business. We work with you to tailor the ideal funding structure for your development needs to expand infrastructure, acquire or replace assets, or finance projects.
Debt Financing
Partner with a top lender in Africa
As industry leaders in originating, structuring, executing and distributing all types of funding across numerous specialist sectors, our Corporate Debt team ranks among the top in sub-Saharan Africa. We leverage our expertise to assist our corporate, financial sponsor and financial institution clients.
Contact Chetan Jeeva at chetan.jeeva@absa.africa
Asset Financing
Take advantage of client
relationships that go the extra mile
to move your business forward
a top lender in Africa
Absa’s Fixed Income Trading team provides a full suite of Fixed Income, Credit and FX products across South African and sub-Saharan African markets.
Absa has a highly-ranked and experienced Trading & Sales team that offers a high level of service and product expertise for a variety of local and international institutional clients.
Contact Morne Visagie at morne.visagie@absa.africa
Project Financing
Finance critical assets and projects with tailormade solution
Our team supports your business aspirations with project finance deals and provides risk-management solutions across interest-rate, commodity-price and currency hedging. Our offering ranges from project finance advisory, debt-arranging, underwriting and syndication services to agent and account banking services.
This offering is supported by products including project finance term loans, reserve-based lending facilities, export credit agency-backed loans, revolving credit facilities, bridge loans, mezzanine financing facilities and working capital facilities for project companies.
Contact Theuns Ehlers theuns.ehlers@absa.africa
Structured Trade and Commodity Finance
Our bespoke trade finance solutions are designed to support your working capital and balance sheet risk transfer requirements.
Structured Trade and Commodity Finance (STCF) provide short-term, self-liquidating trade finance solutions.
Get solutions that are tailor-made to adapt to and suit local, regional and global commodity traders, importers and exporters and manufacturers.
Solutions are typically secured by underlying assets and other commodities. Inherently self-liquidating solutions partnered with the marketability of the underlying asset and the trade finance instrument in use provides the security that is needed in these unprecedented times.
Contact Rudy Wuite rudy.wuite@absa.africa
Sustainable Finance
Financing clients’ sustainability ambitions. Partner with Absa for tailored sustainable finance solutions.
As a leading African financial institution, one of our key enablers is playing a shaping role in Africa's growth and sustainability.
We are committed to helping our clients transition to a low-carbon, inclusive, circular economy. As a financial institution, our strength lies in our connections to various stakeholders across sectors and the economy.
Our vision is to leverage this strength, channelling financing into solutions that support inclusive growth and environmental protection, growing ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) impact.
Our sustainable finance offering spans all sectors and focuses on bespoke solutions including sustainable loans, sustainability-linked loans and sustainable bonds.
Contact Shiran Moodley at shiran.moodley@absa.africa or Heidi Barends at heidi.barends@absa.africa
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OUR TRACK RECORD
Feedback from our clients
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“Absa provided us with advice on matters related to project finance and maximising interest income on excess cash. The service received has been outstanding and we have had better-than forecasted interest earnings as a result of the guidance and restructuring provided by Absa CIB. We have also received substantial support for decision making purposes when it comes to financial instruments held with Absa.”
Dorper Wind Farm – South Africa
President, Trade Association - Africa
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"Absa has been a partner bank to ACWA Power since our first successful project bid, providing the group with project financing, working capital as well as mandated as the account bank for the project. Absa has provided great value through its service, tailored solutions, valuable insights and advisory to the group."
ACWA Power – UAE and Africa
President, Trade Association - Africa
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"As a partner bank to Marubeni for over 6 years, the Absa team has provided awesome service in assisting us to establish our South Africa office. Their always-available attitude has supported us to facilitate our entry into both the South African and African Market."
Marubeni Middle-East & Africa Power Limited – Japan
President, Trade Association - Africa
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"Having a Pan-African banking partner is very important to the group as it gives us a competitive advantage in the market. We are now able to go for the projects we want because we have a partner bank that understands our business and is ready to help us materialise our growth ambitions in the continent."
Gransolar Group – Spain
President, Trade Association - Africa
