Standard Bank Convenes African Policymakers and Global Investors at 2026 Conference
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Luvuyo Masinda, CIB Chief Executive, stated the event builds on the 2025 inaugural that shifted Africa's narrative from risk to resilience. It bridges policy ambitions and market realities, urging measures to deepen capital pools, enhance liquidity, and bolster regulatory frameworks for scaled investor deployment.
Africa faces adding 1 billion people by 2050, over half urban, needing $150 billion yearly for infrastructure versus current $80-90 billion per Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA). Standard Bank seeks to center African priorities in global finance discourse.
The conference organizes around five pillars: prioritizing infrastructure as an asset class via public-private partnerships (PPPs) beyond aid, and accelerating energy transition to position Africa in global security via renewables.
Pillars also cover deepening capital markets through domestic liquidity, regulatory transparency, and institutional access; enabling intra-African trade and FDI via AfCFTA for larger markets; and sovereign debt sustainability focusing affordability, credibility, structure, and risk premiums.
Positioned for high-level engagement over deal-making, it strengthens financial architecture for sustained flows. Participants include African finance/infrastructure ministers, central bank governors, global asset managers, DFIs, and multilaterals on de-risking.
Standard Bank leaders Sim Tshabalala (Group CEO), Luvuyo Masinda, Sola Adegbesan (Global Markets Africa), and Alex Davidson (Global Markets SA) lead liquidity sessions. The 2025 Cape Town event united capital sources; World Bank projects AfCFTA lifting income $450 billion and intra-exports 81%+ across 48 countries.
Masinda emphasized mobilizing capital builds a balanced global economy foundation.
