Overview

Ecobank provides its clients with a unique capability set, rooted in its knowledge of local African markets, access to information and ability to execute in challenging and diverse environments.

Ecobank | Nedbank Alliance

Ecobank benefits from the Group's strategic alliance with Nedbank, one of the largest banks in South Africa. Nedbank has a deep understanding of the South African market, as well as a large corporate client base for whom African expansion is becoming a strategic imperative.

Capabilities:

• Local Knowledge Africa
  • Our unique 'Local Knowledge Africa' (LKA) service, harnessing our powerhouse research credentials and competencies – a cornerstone of our service delivery to clients

• Strategic Thinking & Market Intelligence
  • Partnering with our clients to support their strategy in Africa
  • Assisting in scoping the business, identifying opportunities and assessing risk

• Pan-African Business Development
  • End-to-end solution to support companies as they grow and do business in Africa
  • Providing advice on target markets, competitive analysis, growth strategy and business plan execution

• Bespoke Client Solutions:
  • Partnering with stakeholders to offer solutions to risk, regulatory and legal needs
  • Providing advice on banking solutions across our footprint

Structured Financing Arranging and Underwriting

• Limited Recourse Financing in the Bank or Bond Markets
• Official Agency Finance
• Limited Recourse Acquisition Finance
• Local Currency Finance
• Project Finance (greenfield or brownfield)
• Mezzanine and Equity Funding

Business

• Structuring
• Capital raising
  • Debt
  • Equity

Sectors

• Infrastructure
• Telecoms
• Power
• Metals and Mining
• Oil and Gas
• Industrials
• Transportation
• Agriculture

Structured Trade and Commodity Finance

Based around asset monetisation and/or risk offset

• Inventory Finance: Finance against inventory in warehouse at origin or other location.
• Pre-export Finance: Funding raised against the assignment of acceptable export contracts, inventory and receivables
• Countertrade: Accept goods or trade instruments for full partial payment to generate FX including tolling/barter/switch-trading.
• Arbitrage: Utilising physical trade flows to arbitrage emerging market bank finance.
• Payment Undertaking: Discount of payment undertaking and associated documents (particularly in the oil market).
• Securitisation: Larger counterparties with an acceptable market name that need to access alternate funding types (against pools of inventory/receivables).

Debt Capital Markets

Local currency issues:

• Issues in major sub-Saharan African currencies.
• Ecobank Capital is the leading issuing house for local currency bond issues in UEMOA and CEMAC regions

Foreign currency issues:

• Foreign currency denominated issues in US Dollars and Euro

Underwriting:

• Underwriting capacity in local or foreign currency across the Ecobank footprint

Local/international distribution

• Distribution capacity within local, regional and international markets

Equity Capital Markets

Public offers and listing:

• Extensive knowledge of regional capital markets
• Membership of the four regional stock exchanges - Ghana, Nigeria, BRVM (Cote d’Ivoire) and BVMAC (Cameroon)

Private Placements:

• Wide African customer base (institutional and high networth individuals)
• Partnerships with global Private Equity and Venture Capital firms
• Distribution to African, European, Middle Eastern and Chinese investors