Afreximbank Expands Operations

Afreximbank Expands Operations

The new branch office being opened by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in Yaounde will serve as the Bank’s gateway to the Central African region, Afreximbank’s Executive Vice President for Business Development and Corporate Banking, Amr Kamel, has said. Speaking during a roadshow organised in Yaounde to present the Bank’s products, programmes and facilities to the business community, Kamel said the office would bring the Bank closer to local businesses in the region.

“We are in the final stages of discussions with the Government authorities to open the branch office,” he told the audience of more that 250 business leaders from all the key sectors of the Cameroonian economy. Kamel, noted that many African countries were taking strategic steps towards de-commoditising their exports and implement industrialisation strategies, saying they were tired of being heavily commodity-dependent.

Many Africans could no longer accept a situation where their development aspirations were defined by the vagaries of the international commodity markets, he explained.
He commended the role given to Afreximbank in mobilising all parties towards the attainment of the goals of Cameroon’s Vision 2035 and pledged that the Bank was committed to assisting both the government and the private sector.

Minister of Trade of Cameroon, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, commended Afreximbank for the decision to hold the roadshow in Yaounde and for selecting Cameroon to host the Central Africa Branch Office.

He urged the business leaders in attendance to take full advantage of the services offered by Afreximbank in order to exploit the opportunities opened up by the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Atangana noted that, with the AfCFTA, Africa had become one huge market of 1.2 billion people to which businesses in Cameroon and the Central Africa region could sell their products.

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