IFC Roundtable Puts De-Risking and SME Finance at Centre of Africa’s Capital Mobilisation Agenda

Ahead of the Africa Financial Industry Summit (AFIS) 2026, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) convened senior banking executives, development finance institutions and financial innovators in Johannesburg on 30 September to ask why so much institutional capital sits in low-risk government paper while African MSMEs face a financing gap of close to $50 billion. The session was the Johannesburg edition of The Road to AFIS, a roadshow ahead of the summit, which takes place in Luanda, Angola,