Africa Frontier Capital (“AFC”) is a specialised debt capital raising firm established in 2014. AFC consists of a trio of investment professionals with a background in investment banking who have worked closely together for the past 14 years. With a collective 60 years’ experience in the financial industry, the firm focuses on debt and ratings advisory as well as debt origination and corporate issuances across Africa. AFC’s partners have been successful in issuing publicly listed multi-currency corporate bonds in South Africa, Kenya and the Nordic markets (Sweden and Norway) and raising funding on a bi-lateral basis in Botswana and Tanzania. The firm has packaged and issued both private and listed securitisation issues across numerous asset classes, including developmental housing, residential and commercial mortgages, auto-backed receivables, performing and non-performing retail loans and a variety of future-flow receivables. AFC’s experience in originating, structuring and issuing debt instruments across multinational boundaries ensures the firm is adept in the exceptional execution capabilities required when dealing with cross-jurisdictional third parties, including attorneys, ratings agencies, hedge counterparties, capital markets regulators and a diverse investor base. AFC’s experience in placing an assortment of financial instruments backed by a broad range of asset classes ensures that the firm is uniquely positioned in packaging and distributing credit instruments to a diverse range of investors including capital markets participants (asset managers, pension funds and life companies), development finance institutions, socially responsible investment funds and banking institutions.
