Access Holdings Plc will advance the case for African monetary establishments to convert scale into better financial affect when leaders from throughout the continent’s monetary ecosystem collect for the Africa Financial Summit (AFIS) 2026 in Luanda, Angola, on 3-4 November.
Participating as a Diamond Sponsor alongside its flagship subsidiary, Access Bank Plc, the Group will carry its pan-African expertise to discussions on one of many continent’s most urgent priorities: how to mobilise extra capital for productive funding, deepen regional commerce and monetary integration, and broaden entry to finance for companies and households.
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Chairman, Access Holdings Plc, will lead the Group’s delegation, which incorporates Roosevelt Ogbonna, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank Plc, and Seyi Kumapayi, Executive Director, African Subsidiaries, Access Bank Plc.
For Access Holdings, the dialog in Luanda goes past the expansion of particular person monetary establishments. It is about how African establishments can use their attain, capabilities and partnerships to deal with the continent’s financing wants and create sustainable worth for companies, economies, communities and shareholders.
Africa’s alternative is important, however realising it should require monetary establishments with the dimensions, functionality and partnerships to mobilise capital extra successfully and direct it in direction of productive development. In this context, scale just isn’t an finish in itself. Its worth lies in what it allows establishments to ship for companies, economies and communities throughout the continent.
Having established a major pan-African footprint by means of Access Bank, the Group is more and more centered on translating that scale into worth by connecting markets, supporting enterprise, facilitating regional commerce and widening entry to monetary providers. This Scale-to-Value orientation displays a broader ambition to be certain that growth is matched by deeper financial relevance and measurable stakeholder affect.
At AFIS 2026, the Group will contribute views from its expertise throughout African markets, with specific emphasis on mobilising home capital, strengthening regional commerce and funds integration, broadening monetary inclusion and utilizing digital platforms to lengthen monetary providers to underserved companies and households.
Commenting on the Bank’s participation, Roosevelt Ogbonna, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank Plc, mentioned: “Businesses need finance that moves across borders as easily as their ambitions do. At AFIS 2026, we will show how Access Bank is turning its pan-African scale into real value by connecting markets, supporting enterprise and widening access to financial services.”
These priorities replicate Access Holdings’ view that Africa’s monetary future will rely not solely on the scale or profitability of its establishments, but additionally on their capability to channel capital in direction of the actual economic system, allow companies to develop and join African markets extra successfully.
Co-hosted by the International Finance Corporation and Jeune Afrique Media Group, AFIS 2026 will convene greater than 1,250 African and world monetary leaders and regulators. The summit, themed ‘Making Capital Count: Unlocking Growth Through African Finance’, will look at sensible methods to mobilise non-public funding, direct finance to the actual economic system, flip African financial savings into African funding and deepen regional integration.
Through its participation, Access Holdings will advocate stronger collaboration amongst monetary establishments, governments, regulators, traders and the non-public sector, recognising that constructing Africa’s monetary capability requires establishments and markets to work collectively throughout nationwide and sectoral boundaries.
Updates on the Group’s participation can be shared by means of the official channels of Access Holdings and Access Bank utilizing #AFIS2026.
