The Financial Superintendency of Colombia published a press release on Superintendent César Ferrari’s participation as moderator of a panel focused on turning cooperation between Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean into concrete investment and productive financing opportunities. Ferrari highlighted the challenge of mobilising private capital, lowering barriers, sharing risks and directing resources to projects with economic and social impact across both regions. Discussion points included how African and Latin American financial systems could integrate more efficiently and whether joint portfolios of investment projects could be structured, in exchanges with Thomas Svanikier of Fidelity Bank Ghana. With Temwa Roosevelt Gondwe of Afreximbank, the panel explored strategies to internationalise investment and trade links and which financing instruments have been most effective for supporting small and medium-sized enterprises and productive development, with a view to adaptation in Latin America. Questions to Carlos Murcia Plazas of Cyber Black Rock covered the role of private equity funds as financing and investment vehicles in Latin America and their potential to scale into joint projects with African countries, alongside potential opportunities for Latin American private equity funds.

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