APO2026 - Strategic Conclave - The New African Financial Architecture

💰 Strategic Conclave | The New African Financial Architecture: Delivering on African Structural Transformation

"Africa does not lack capital, it's more about capital choreography. It lacks efficient channels to deploy capital at scale." - Dr. Slim Feriani, Managing Partner, Alternative Path Partners; Former Minister of Industry and SMEs, Tunisia

At APO 2026, this Strategic Conclave tackled one of the continent's most glaring contradictions: Africa faces a $400 billion annual financing gap for infrastructure and social needs, yet holds an estimated $4 trillion in untapped internal resources. The diagnosis was unambiguous, the problem is not scarcity. It is architecture.

The session moved beyond calls for reform to blueprint a genuinely sovereign financial ecosystem: one where Africa's own liquidity fuels its own growth, and where the punishing "Africa risk premium" is dismantled from the inside out.

🎯 6 key recommendations from the session:

💡 Accelerate financial inclusion through mandatory instant payment policies to unlock dormant liquidity
🏗️ Operationalize subsidiarity within the continental, regional, and national financial tiers to eliminate duplication
💼 Redirect Africa's $4 trillion in domestic savings into long-term equity for transformative industrial projects
📊 Reform global risk rating methodologies to reflect actual borrower experience, not distant perceptions
🔀 Deploy blended finance instruments to crowd in private investment for infrastructure and SME value chains
⚖️ Mitigate the unintended consequences of global financial regulations (Basel III, AML/CFT regulations)

🎤 Keynote Speakers:
👤 Hon. Mulambo H. Haimbe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Republic of Zambia
👤 Mr. Didier Acouétey, Advisor to the President of the African Development Bank on NAFA
👤 Dr. Anthony Costa, Head of Secretariat, B20 South Africa; Former Investment Lead to the President of South Africa

🎤 Panelists:
👤 Dr. Slim Feriani, Managing Partner, Alternative Path Partners (APP); Former Minister of Industry and SMEs, Tunisia
👤 Mr. El-Hassana Kaba, Founder and CEO, MANSA BANK
👤 Mr. David Kuijper, Director General, European Development Finance Institutions Association
👤 Mr. Ben Zwinkels, Chairman of AfricInvest; Principal Advisor at NextBold Capital

🎙️ Moderated by Dr. Sanoussi Bilal, Executive Director, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)

🔗 Learn more:

🌐 https://africapoliticaloutlook.org
📘 Explore the APO Report: https://africapoliticaloutlook.org/rapport-apo-2026
📸 Relive APO 2026: https://africapoliticaloutlook.org/galerie-edition-2026

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