Our mandate is to facilitate access to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises to enable them fully play their role of driving the growth of African economies.
Location: Kenya, Nairobi
Employees: 51-200
Founded date: 2011
Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.03.2025 | Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: A New Dawn for Nigeria's Female Founders | In Nigeria, a quiet revolution is brewing. Women entrepreneurs are stepping into the spotlight, ready to reshape the economic landscape. The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) and the Bank of Industry (BOI) are leadi... |
| 20.03.2025 | Bank of Industry launches N10 billion fund to empower female entrepreneurs in Nigeria | The Bank of Industry (BOI) has launched a special intervention programme, Project Guaranteed Loans for Women (GLOW), valued at N10 billion, to support female entrepreneurs across Nigeria, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The initiative a... |
| 19.03.2025 | AWIEF Growth Accelerator Programme invites applications from female-founded Nigerian startups | In order to promote greater access to capital and markets for women-owned and women-led small and medium-sized businesses (WSMEs) in Nigeria, the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has teamed up with the African Guar... |
| 22.11.2024 | Bank of Industry raises $5 billion, plans N120 billion support for MSMEs | The Managing Director of the Bank of Industry (BoI), Mr. Olasupo Olusi, has disclosed that the bank has raised over $5 billion from international capital markets since 2017. Olusi made this known on Thursday at the BoI’s 65th-anniversary ne... |
| 19.09.2023 | African Guarantee Fund and Clean Cooking Alliance Challenge the Banking Industry To Invest in Carbon Markets | Feisal Hussain, Clean Cooking Alliance Senior Director of Innovative Finance, speaking at the "Banking on Carbon Markets" workshop with financial partners The Clean Cooking Alliance, the African Guarantee Fund, and the United Nati... |
| 29.04.2013 | Gulf African Bank In $1.2m Deal With AGF To Support SME Lending | Kenya’s first and largest Islamic bank Gulf African Bank, has signed a KSh100 million ($1.2 million) agreement with the African Guarantee Fund to support lending to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the country. The portfolio guarantee ... |
| 24.04.2013 | Jamii Bora Bank, AGF Ink $955,000 Deal To Support SME Lending In Kenya | href=”http://jamiiborabank.co.ke/”> Jamii Bora Bank has signed a Ksh 80 million ($955,000) guarantee portfolio agreement with the African Guarantee Fund to support lending to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Kenya. The portfolio loa... |
| 22.03.2013 | African Guarantee Fund Increases SME Guarantee Loan In Kenya | Growth-hungry African Guarantee Fund is already making a mark in credit-deficient Small and Medium-sized Enterprises sector in Kenya, nine months after official launch on June 1, 2012. In two days’ time, the Pan African SME Fund headquarter... |
| - | African Guarantee Fund issues first tranche of $50m guarantee to Equity Bank to support SMEs in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and DRC | Sponsored by: March 17th 2021 • Africa • Finance & Services The African Guarantee Fund and Equity Group Holdings Plc have concluded a guarantee facility amounting to USD 75 Million with a first tranche of USD 50 Million to four of Equit... |
| - | African Development Bank’s AFAWA and AGF partner to unlock loans to women entrepreneurs | Sponsored by: February 8th 2021 • Africa • Finance & Services The African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) programme has agreed a partnership with the African Guarantee Fund (AGF) to unlock $1.3-... |
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