Fixing the Systems That Enable Investment in Africa — mobilising domestic finance for Africa's growth.
The Third Sustainable Capital Markets Conference convenes CEOs and senior executives across Africa's financial ecosystem — banks, pension funds, capital market authorities, DFIs, asset managers, and market infrastructure providers — to address the structural barriers that prevent capital from moving into long-term, productive investment.
Over two days, leaders engage in closed-door executive dialogues, strategic panels, fireside conversations, and action-oriented breakout labs — closing with the Capital Markets Compact.
A voluntary, market-led declaration of priority reforms, transaction commitments, and institutional collaborations — the point at which dialogue becomes commitment.
Over the past decade capital markets across the continent have matured — pension assets have grown, debt markets have expanded, and interest in thematic instruments has risen. The foundations are in place. But the architecture for moving that capital into long-term productive investment remains incomplete.
Yet a significant gap persists between available capital and investable, long-term opportunities. Structural constraints remain entrenched: fragmented regulation, limited project pipelines, shallow secondary markets, and a persistent mismatch between the risk appetite of local institutional investors and the risk profile of available instruments.
Africa's domestic institutional savings base is growing faster than at any point in its history. This capital is long-term and local-currency-denominated — precisely matched to the horizons that infrastructure, climate, and MSME finance demand. The question is no longer whether the capital exists. It is whether the systems exist to allocate it.
"From Capital to Allocation" is not a description of what the conference is — it is what the conference must achieve.
Tap any session to expand. Day One diagnoses what prevents capital from moving; Day Two turns diagnoses into decisions.
Selected confirmed participants. More to be announced.
The five priority reforms, transaction types to scale, and named partnerships agreed by participants.
Read the compact →The flagship data and analysis grounding the conference, launched live on Day One.
Download report →Watch the opening keynote, executive dialogues, and case-study panels on demand.
Watch now →Highlights from two days of convening across Africa's financial ecosystem in Nairobi.
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