Welcome

The objective of the Africa Financial Services Investment Conference is to increase investment into Africa’s financial services sector by bringing listed, and unlisted financial services companies from across Africa together with debt and equity institutional investors, and other interested parties.

Financial services companies including banks, insurance companies, micro-lenders, leasing companies etc. are confirmed to attend, with more likely to confirm in the coming months.

These include representatives of the largest banks in Burkina Faso, Chad, Central African Republic, DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Sao Tome, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo; Africa’s largest bank by number of branches; Africa’s largest insurance company; as well as many other banks, insurance companies, microfinance and other financial services companies.

Many of Africa’s largest investors will be attending AFSIC 2014, including a wide range of major Africa focused funds that will be making presentations such as Actis, Amethis Finance, Carlyle, CDC, DPI, FMO, Frontier Markets Fund Managers, Helios, Jacana Partners, Leapfrog Investments, TLG Capital, T Rowe Price and the World Bank.

The event comprises of two core events happening over 2 days:

• Speakers: Three parallel streams of speakers, comprising a stream of Listed Financial Services Company presentations, a second stream of Private Company presentations, and a final stream of presentations from Investors.

• One on One Meetings: A number of meeting spaces can be booked by attendees. These facilitate one on one delegate meetings, allowing attendees to undertake a significant amount of meetings within a short period of time in the same location. A one on one meeting system will be in place.

AFSIC 2014 takes place at the Hilton Metropole, Brighton on the 15^th and 16^th May 2014. This venue is the largest residential conference centre in the South of England.

A limited number of sponsorship opportunities are available. If you would like to participate as a Sponsor at the 2014 Africa Financial Services Investment Conference please contact the conference organisers at event@afsic.net