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EBID Announces $130m Facility To Bridge W/Africa’s Trade Financing Gap

by Chika Izuora
2 years ago
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The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has announced a dual-currency trade finance credit line totaling around $130million, marking the first time it has secured funding support from the African Development Bank (AfDB).

The funds will be used primarily to enhance food security and strengthen agricultural value chains across West Africa, the AfDB said in an announcement issued this week.

The AfDB is providing $50million and €50million to the three-and-a-half-year facility, while the People’s Bank of China is providing a further US$30million through the Africa Growing Together Fund – a facility sponsored by the Chinese central bank but administered by the AfDB.

The AfDB’s head of trade finance, Lamin Drammeh, said, working with the EBID should help improve access to trade finance in the Ecowas region, which encompasses 15 West African countries.

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“Regional institutions like the EBID complement the bank’s efforts to bridge the trade finance gap in Africa and serve as an effective conduit for channelling much-needed funds to underserved countries and sectors,” he said

Drammeh noted that, the facility will be used with a “special focus on the agriculture value chain, SMEs and women-owned businesses”.

The trade finance gap in Africa – measured as the gap between demand and supply for financing facilities across the continent – is believed to total around US$81bn per year, with SMEs and domestic companies facing the greatest difficulty in accessing support, the AfDB said.

As well as supporting direct financing from the EBID, the facility will be used for on-lending to local banks. Ultimate beneficiaries will be SMEs, local enterprise cooperatives and farmers in the region, with a focus on agriculture, infrastructure and transport.

The AfDB’s deputy director general for the West Africa region,Joseph Ribeiro, hailed the agreement as the bank’s first financing for EBID and said, he expects ‘an even stronger partnership in the near future.’

The announcement follows the AfDB’s October approval of US$25mn trade finance facilities for FSDH Merchant Bank in Nigeria, which also targets SMEs via on-lending.

Although a long-standing issue, Africa’s trade finance gap worsened significantly during the initial months of the Covid-19 pandemic.

 


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