Current Investments

AfriCap has investments in 13 institutions in 11 countries:


Afrique Emergence et Investissements (AE&I) - Cote d Ivoire
Afrique Emergence et Investissements is a microfinance company targeting mainly women groups and individual clients in urban areas, and is one of the leaders in microfinance in the country.

Asusu - Niger
Asusu SA was established in 2008 out of the transformation of a co-operative called Asusu Ciigaba into a limited liability company. Asusu provides loans and takes deposits, has an extensive rural outreach, and is the leading MFI in Niger.

BACB Sofipe - Burkina Faso
Sofipe started operations in August 2010, and provides both savings and loans to urban low income clients and microenterprises.

Birima - Senegal
Birima was established in 2008 as a credit and savings co-operative by the singer Youssou Ndour. The company is in the process of transforming into a limited liability company and focuses on urban micro -entrepreneurs in the city of Dakar through group and individual loans.

Ferlo - Senegal
Ferlo was created in Senegal in February 2004 as a joint project between ByteTech and AfriCap. It provides electronic payment platforms for the microfinance industry and other clients.

Finance Salone - Sierra Leone
Finance Salone started in 2001 as a program for American Refugee Committee International in Sierra Leone. It is now a company limited by shares, and among the leaders in microfinance in the country.

La Regionale - Cameroon
La Régionale is a leading financial institution focusing on consumer and SME lending. In a very competitive market, La Regionale has positioned itself in the niche of salaried people from both the public and the private sector.

Opportunity International Bank Malawi - Malawi
OIBM is part of the Opportunity International Network and is a licenced bank providing a range of microfinance services to urban and rural clients.

Socremo Banco de Microfinanças - Mozambique
SOCREMO is one of the leading Microfinance Banks in Mozambique with a banking licence.

Tujijenge - Tanzania
Tujijenge Tanzania (TjT) is a microfinance institution that is legally registered as a Limited company in Tanzania.

Union Trust Bank - Sierra Leone
UTB is a leading commercial bank in Sierra Leone. It is to date one of the only locally owned and operated financial institutions in Sierra Leone.

Wizzit - South Africa
Wizzit offers a simple to open, transactional bank account that can be accessed through both a debit card and a mobile phone. The concept and business model was conceived and purposely developed to meet the needs of the un-banked population of South Africa. Wizzit also provides consumer credit, microfinance, and SME loans, and has a very successful payments platform technology company.