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Bank Fundraising Guarantee

Product Description

This is a guarantee that facilitates acquisition of funds by a financial institution intended for onward lending to SMEs.

The Bank Fundraising Guarantee (BFRG) enables financial institutions to raise funds whose proceeds are used to facilitate scale-up of credit facilities to eligible qualifying borrowers.

Key Features

  • Coverage: 50% -100%
  • USD 20,000,000

Benefits

  • Assists PFIs scale up their SME lending activities in situations where their target SME clients are unable to meet collateral threshold requirements­;
  • Enables PFIs raise long term resources for use in funding the long term needs of their SME clients;

Through the Capacity Development component of the BFRG

  • Develops and strengthens the skills, management practices, strategies, systems, competencies and abilities of PFIs to effectively increase their SME financing business

Eligibility Criteria

  • The request must be from a Financial Institutions targeting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.
  • The target of the Bank Fundraising Guarantee cuts across all sectors with an exception of those listed in AGF’s exclusion list.

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African Guarantee Fund contributes to the promotion of economic development in Africa through provision of Partial Guarantees & Capacity Development to Financial Institutions to facilitate access to finance for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.