Corporate Banking

Services Corporate Banking

We provide customised financial solutions to African clients, African financial institutions and international corporate clients. We also assist private equity funds with their efforts to leverage African acquisitions.

Corporate banking

Loans Solutions

Our Loans Solutions division provides tailored financial solutions for African and international clients, including African financial institutions, global and local corporations, and Sovereigns. We offer a range of financing solutions, including term loans, revolving loan facilities, infrastructure financing, asset-backed financing, and receivables-backed financing.

Our facilities cover diverse sectors with maturity structures adapted to each industry’s risk profile. Transactions are structured and funded through our balance sheet, club-deals, syndications, or in collaboration with Bank of Africa Group affiliates, and can be arranged on an underwritten basis or best-efforts basis.

Our specialised expertise spans Telecommunications, Infrastructure, Energy, Hard and Soft Commodities, and Shipping. With a highly skilled team, we uphold international standards, leveraging deep African market insight, a local presence, and efficient decision-making process anchored in London."

Trade Finance

Our Trade Finance division provides financing solutions to both our Financial Institutions (FI) and International or Regional Corporate clients doing business in Africa. We finance directly or indirectly the following commodities: rice, fertiliser, sugar, ferrous and non-ferrous metals and refined petroleum products.

As a business we focus on the following services to the BMCE BOA Group as well as African and International FIs:

LC Issuance, LC Confirmation & Discounting
Avalised Draft Discounting
Trade Loans
Risk Participation (selling down or buying risk on the primary & secondary market)

Trade Finance Distinctive Dynamics

Portfolio Of Borrowers

TF's portfolio of borrowers are registered in Hong Kong and other countries.
FI Borrowers have an acceptable balance sheet and proven track record in the industry.

Core Market Knowledge

TF has financed transactions in numerous African countries.
BOA UK is able to assess and monitor TF's risk exposure thanks to the Group's presence in more than 20 countries in Africa.

Trade Finance Strategic Pillars

BOA Group has set up its focus on further expansion into Africa thriving and remaining a sustainable trans-African group based on two main pillars
Boosting the group’s involvement in financing the economy for retail customers and companies of all sizes and comprising major private or public projects
Pursuing the development of synergies with BMCE Bank of Africa Group. Capitalizing on the many possibilities offered by its majority shareholder, whose ownership of BOA GROUP stands at about 72.85% since 31/12/2017