Cape Town: Global Banking & Markets – Africa 2025
Global Banking & Markets: Africa 2025 is a premier event bringing together key players in African financial markets. It will take place on March 25-26, 2025, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in South Africa.
The event features three premium co-located conferences, providing a unique networking platform for top decision-makers in the African financial sector:
- Bonds, Loans & ESG Africa (March 25 & 26, 2025): Africa’s largest corporate and investment banking event.
- Sovereigns, Central Banks & Official Institutions Africa (March 25, 2025): The key meeting place for African sovereigns, central banks, and official institutions.
- Private Credit Africa (March 26, 2025): A dedicated platform for African private credit investors and global fund managers.
Each year, over 10,000 professionals from 45+ countries attend this event to facilitate deal-making and strengthen connections across financial markets.
The event attracts a diverse range of participants, including public and private issuers, governments, investors, banks, DFIs/MDFIs, law firms, regulators, insurance companies, and brokers. Notable institutions attending include ABSA, Access Bank, AFC, AFDB, Afreximbank, Citi, IFC, Standard Bank, Nedbank, UMOA Titres, and more.
With access to an exclusive network of high-level decision-makers (87% of attendees are director-level or above), Global Banking & Markets: Africa 2025 is a strategic platform to accelerate transactions and drive deal flow.
📅 Dates: March 25-26, 2025
📍 Venue: Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa
Organizer
Global Banking & Markets is a world leader in organizing financing events focused on emerging markets. The institution brings together complex market players in one place, fosters informal networking, and organizes strategic meetings to facilitate deal-making. Annually, more than 10,000 professionals participate in its events and awards, making networking and business interactions a top priority.
The in-person meetings orchestrated by Global Banking & Markets help advance transactions by convening diverse groups of industry experts. Attendance at these events is considered essential, attracting an ever-growing number of professionals.
As global deal-making becomes increasingly complex—misaligned shareholder and customer expectations, fragmented regulations, and fluctuating geopolitical landscapes—the institution enhances efficiency while reducing the costs and risks associated with multi-party transactions.
Since its first events in the Gulf in 2010, Global Banking & Markets has developed deep expertise in markets with rising economic influence, including Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, and Türkiye.
