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About Mr Jules Ngankam
Jules Ngankam is the Group Chief Government Officer of the African Assure Fund (AGF). Underneath his management, AGF has expanded its operations in over 40 African international locations, partnering with lending establishments to extend entry to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises by means of AGF’s risk-sharing ensures and capability improvement help. Jules has over 20 years of expertise in banking and monetary providers. Previous to becoming a member of AGF, Jules labored with Barclays Capital, the funding banking division of Barclays PLC, in numerous roles together with charges strategist, charges dealer and treasury vice-president. He holds Grasp’s Levels in Enterprise Administration, Statistics and Economics, Utilized Arithmetic, Utilized Statistics in addition to Pc Science. Jules is enthusiastic about leveraging monetary innovation to assist monetary inclusion and sustainable improvement. He firmly believes in supporting SMEs to completely understand their potential in driving financial development, product innovation, regional improvement and job creation in Africa.
About African Assure Fund (AGF)
African Assure Fund (AGF) is a specialised assure supplier whose mission is to facilitate financial improvement and poverty discount in Africa. To attain this, AGF will increase entry to finance for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) throughout key financial sectors by means of an array of assure merchandise and capability improvement help. Since inception, AGF has unlocked greater than USD 5 billion in SME financing, by means of partnerships with over 250 accomplice monetary establishments throughout 45 African international locations.
AGF is backed by the next shareholders and sponsors: The Authorities of Denmark by means of the Danish Worldwide Improvement Company (DANIDA), the Authorities of Spain by means of the Spanish Company for Worldwide Cooperation (AECID), the African Improvement Financial institution (AfDB), French Improvement Company (AFD), Nordic Improvement Fund (NDF), Funding Fund for Growing International locations (IFU), German Improvement Financial institution (KfW), French Company for Personal Sector (PROPARCO), West African Improvement Financial institution (BOAD), International Affairs Canada (GAC), TechnoServe, Norad, Mastercard Basis and African Mental Property Group (OAPI).
African Assure Fund is rated AA- by Fitch Scores.
For extra data, please go to www.agf.africa.
