What We do
African Soil Capital is a specialist trade finance advisory firm focused on delivering high-quality, scalable trade finance solutions to top and mid-tier corporates, trade finance providers and institutional investors doing business in Africa.
Business Clients
Facilitate balance-sheet friendly funding solutions to top and mid-tier corporates looking to free up cash in their trading relationships, optimise their working capital and strengthen their supply chains. These include payables finance, receivables finance, sales finance and inventory finance solutions.
Trade Finance Providers
Enable banks, non-bank trade finance providers and fintechs to scale and optimise the funding solutions they offer their clients through scalable funded risk distribution solutions.
Institutional Investors
We believe trade finance is a highly investable asset class, with stable returns, low loss norms, and low correlation to other asset classes. We provide avenues for Institutional Investors to participate in this asset class.
Trade finance is evolving rapidly in the way we enable it, facilitate it, and finance it. African Soil Capital is helping close Africa’s trade finance gap bringing new sources of liquidity to the industry and supporting trade finance providers to do more in Africa.
Assets Under Management (AUM)
Assets Under Management (AUM) in 12 markets across Africa rose to around $1,098 billion in 2020, from a 2008 total of $293 billion [PwC].
Africa Market Capitalization
Capital markets remain quite small and illiquid. In the African bond markets, government bonds dominate, accounting for more than three quarters of bond market capitalisation.
Investment Scheme Industry
SA’s Collective Investment Scheme industry closed 2021 with R3.14tn in AUM, of which R0.8tn was held in interest bearing funds [ASISA].
The September 2022 money market rate was 5.66% [Moody’s].
AFCFTA
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the largest free trade area in the world with 1.3billion people across 55 countries is expected to boost Africa’s income by $450bn by 2035 and increase exports by $560bn. [World Bank].
Trade Finance Gap
Only 40% of Africa’s trade is bank-intermediated – a far lower share than the global average of 80%. The trade finance gap also remains significantly high at $81 billion in 2019 [AfDB/Afreximbank]. Banks should be encouraged to do more, and non-bank financial institutions should play a bigger role.
African Soil Capital provides scalable funding solutions to business clients and trade finance providers in Africa. Find out how
Amin is the non-executive chairman of African Soil Capital. He’s a partner at Origin Funding Partners since 2020. Prior to that he spent 32 years in banking working for Citi, Ecobank Group and Samba Financial Group, in various markets in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Amin Manekia
Non-Executive Chairman
Tim is the founder and CEO of African Soil Capital. He’s been in financial services for over 15 years including 13 years in banking working for Citi and MUFG Bank. He has broad experience working with financial institutions, corporates and fintechs across Africa, to deliver world-class trade finance solutions.
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Tim Muchiri Nyaga
Founder & CEO
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