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BRITISH BANKER
CLEMENT AGHAYERE
PORTFOLIO AFRICA : $30BN
British banker Clement Aghayere is a Microsoft systems engineer M.S.C.E [ LAND AND WAN Networks ] - and was in the frontier of e-commerce having worked worth the Boston consulting Group Manager at Boo.com and E-Pearle with Hal investments and Andersen consulting Paris and Netherlands Offices | Clement Aghayere was solely responsible for the strategy and implementation roll out across 26 European cities based out of Amsterdam The Netherlands | with a considerable amount of finance and tech experience | British banker has combined both skills and has initiated the Digitization of the African investment ecosystem based in the city of London | British banker Clement Aghayere Global leader Africa
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AFRICA BRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LONDON UK LIMITED
PORTFOLIO SUB SAHARAN AFRICA EQUATES $ 30 BN
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A UK-based financial services institution, Africa bridge Capital Management London UK limited , is entirely focused on sub Saharan Africa . Africa bridge capital management London , we are digitizing the African investment ecosystem and as such partnered with a Tier 1 distribution company affiliated with 480 Global institutional Investors, with over $1.3bn of active investment opportunities more broadly, a full range of legal, corporate finance, FX, accountants and insurance brokers to name a few. and in addition Africa bridge capital management London is partnered with investment funds such as The Bank of China Group limited | The African Export Import Bank Cairo Egypt | Bank of Industry subsidiary BOITC and among others . London - based IB Senior executive Clement Aghayere British Executive Chairman and CEO is responsible for the largest capital raisings for Africa in recent years and has been awarded the World peace ambassador award from Peace tracts Sweden for his continuous efforts towards the upliftment African corporate market place | two decades capital raising for African sub region corporates
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AFRICA BRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LONDON UK LIMITED
PORTFOLIO SUB SAHARAN AFRICA EQUATES $ 30 BN
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A UK-based financial services institution, Africa bridge Capital Management London UK limited , is entirely focused on sub Saharan Africa . Africa bridge capital management London , we are digitizing the African investment ecosystem and as such partnered with a Tier 1 distribution company affiliated with 480 Global institutional Investors, with over $1.3bn of active investment opportunities more broadly, a full range of legal, corporate finance, FX, accountants and insurance brokers to name a few. and in addition Africa bridge capital management London is partnered with investment funds such as The Bank of China Group limited | The African Export Import Bank Cairo Egypt | Bank of Industry subsidiary BOITC and among others . London - based IB Senior executive Clement Aghayere British Executive Chairman and CEO is responsible for the largest capital raisings for Africa in recent years and has been awarded the World peace ambassador award from Peace tracts Sweden for his continuous efforts towards the upliftment African corporate market place | two decades capital raising for African sub region corporates
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BRITISH FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM
DIGITIZING THE AFRICAN INVESTMENT ECOSYSTEM LONDON .
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Digitization and new advance technologies, like IoT, AI, data analytics and cloud computing etc changing industries future and customer experience. So in 2019 digitization in financial services surly push forward industries future. Based on Synechron’s work with the world’s largest global banks and insurance companies. Latest published report outlines four key themes for financial services’ priorities starting in 2019
To be successful, these new Business Ecosystems will need to bring together the firm’s Digital Platform Strategy Mobile, and an open Application Programming Interface (API) approach to ingest data sources from the Internet of Things’ (IoTs’) ‘things’. It will need access to powerful Analytics from the programmable economy to help firms go beyond traditional banking services and think about specific events and experiences where data or distributed business models can enable a better customer experience.
This will all need to be supported by an Enterprise Cloud strategy, and it needs to happen now for Banks, Asset Managers, Insurance and financial companies to shift into a (pure digitization) successful digital business.
2. Technology-led transformation When discussing digital transformation, it is impossible to strategize on an action plan without a heavy focus on modern technology. In 2019, firms expect to update systems to become future-ready with a modern, flexible technology architecture.
This will include accelerating the move from monolithic business systems to a microservices architecture and adopting an Open API strategy to support “beyond banking” business models. In terms of front-end engineering, this means ramping up design thinking for more customer-optimized, usable user interfaces (UIs) that shift to AngularJS. This full-stack technology transformation to a more flexible technology architecture also will require a hard look at Cloud strategy.
3. Data as a HorizontalDigitization have been fuelling a massive growth in data available to banks, asset managers insurance and financial companies available for analysis and further business value. Given the vast amount of data created each day, it is considered one of the banks’ most valuable assets – but only if it is properly mined and the value is extracted. Data analytics, data mining, data lakes, and data visualization tools are essential to assign value to the immense amount of data being created and to use it to better understand and target customers. While 2018 moved AI strategies beyond simple automation to more complex Data Science focused use cases, 2019 will set the stage for the push toward enterprise-scale Business Intelligence and further advancement of Data Science strategies to achieve business return on investment (ROI). Given the anticipated, continued exponential growth of data, firms should also start to prepare for their five to ten-year data strategies which should think about things like Quantum Computing and Ecosystems.
4. Culture TransformationBecause banks and financial institutions are re-structuring and rethinking their business strategies to align with a new generation of customers and a new generation of service providers, the digitization culture also must transform to adapt. This will include a change in spending from run-the-bank to change-the bank initiatives, as well change management with a focus on agile workspaces and DevOps. Firms will change to support remote workers from anywhere, and invest in diversity and inclusion initiatives for pluralistic workspaces and teams. Sustainable finance will also be a key trend in 2019 as firms’ appeal to a new generation of customers with different priorities.
Speaking with Co founder and CEO of Synechron, Faisal Husain, “2019 will really push forward the future of financial services and see immense change take place. We expect that this year will see the start of ecosystems that bring together some key technologies that aim to provide more effective methods of engaging with customers. We cannot wait to see what 2019 will bring and look forward to leading the way on this new and exciting journey for financial services”
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- Ecosystems
- Technology-led Transformation
- Data as a Horizontal
- Culture Transformation
To be successful, these new Business Ecosystems will need to bring together the firm’s Digital Platform Strategy Mobile, and an open Application Programming Interface (API) approach to ingest data sources from the Internet of Things’ (IoTs’) ‘things’. It will need access to powerful Analytics from the programmable economy to help firms go beyond traditional banking services and think about specific events and experiences where data or distributed business models can enable a better customer experience.
This will all need to be supported by an Enterprise Cloud strategy, and it needs to happen now for Banks, Asset Managers, Insurance and financial companies to shift into a (pure digitization) successful digital business.
2. Technology-led transformation When discussing digital transformation, it is impossible to strategize on an action plan without a heavy focus on modern technology. In 2019, firms expect to update systems to become future-ready with a modern, flexible technology architecture.
This will include accelerating the move from monolithic business systems to a microservices architecture and adopting an Open API strategy to support “beyond banking” business models. In terms of front-end engineering, this means ramping up design thinking for more customer-optimized, usable user interfaces (UIs) that shift to AngularJS. This full-stack technology transformation to a more flexible technology architecture also will require a hard look at Cloud strategy.
3. Data as a HorizontalDigitization have been fuelling a massive growth in data available to banks, asset managers insurance and financial companies available for analysis and further business value. Given the vast amount of data created each day, it is considered one of the banks’ most valuable assets – but only if it is properly mined and the value is extracted. Data analytics, data mining, data lakes, and data visualization tools are essential to assign value to the immense amount of data being created and to use it to better understand and target customers. While 2018 moved AI strategies beyond simple automation to more complex Data Science focused use cases, 2019 will set the stage for the push toward enterprise-scale Business Intelligence and further advancement of Data Science strategies to achieve business return on investment (ROI). Given the anticipated, continued exponential growth of data, firms should also start to prepare for their five to ten-year data strategies which should think about things like Quantum Computing and Ecosystems.
4. Culture TransformationBecause banks and financial institutions are re-structuring and rethinking their business strategies to align with a new generation of customers and a new generation of service providers, the digitization culture also must transform to adapt. This will include a change in spending from run-the-bank to change-the bank initiatives, as well change management with a focus on agile workspaces and DevOps. Firms will change to support remote workers from anywhere, and invest in diversity and inclusion initiatives for pluralistic workspaces and teams. Sustainable finance will also be a key trend in 2019 as firms’ appeal to a new generation of customers with different priorities.
Speaking with Co founder and CEO of Synechron, Faisal Husain, “2019 will really push forward the future of financial services and see immense change take place. We expect that this year will see the start of ecosystems that bring together some key technologies that aim to provide more effective methods of engaging with customers. We cannot wait to see what 2019 will bring and look forward to leading the way on this new and exciting journey for financial services”
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Across every vertical of the financial services industry, innovators and disruptors are increasingly applying modern technology to digitize (and improve) processes that used to be performed manually. This shift has become increasingly important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial institutions with more modern technology have been able to adapt to an increasingly digital customer base and workforce.
Beyond helping to solve many of the challenges presented by a global health crisis, the transition to digital typically makes these processes cheaper, creates better risk-adjusted outcomes, and often results in better end-customer experiences. Historically, for new fintech companies, customer connectivity and trust can take a long time to develop as consumer behavior can be hard to change when it relates to financial decision making. But in the crisis, we’ve seen technological adoption accelerate quickly. Importantly, once these businesses reach scale, we think they tend to be highly profitable and sticky.
In this piece, we highlight the broad opportunity offered by the digitization of financial services and profile a few key areas (and companies) we find particularly exciting.
A long runway for digital transformation In our view, countless manual processes across each vertical have not yet been digitized. This offers a wide and long-term opportunity set as human processes — previously done by bank employees, financial advisers, traders, etc. — will be increasingly enhanced by digitization. As an example of the sheer scale of the potential growth, emerging markets (EM) GDP could increase by approximately US$3.7 trillion by 2025 if digital finance is widely adopted.1
We believe this opportunity has been hastened by the pandemic but is still quite early in its growth curve and expect the trend to persist throughout the 2020s. Many of the leaders in this space have grown consistently at 10% – 15% CAGRs (compound annual growth rates) for years, but their market shares remain small, potentially offering long runways for growth (Figure 1).
FIGURE 1Figure 1 shows how the leading electronic bond-trading platform is gaining share of the total credit trading markets. While growth has been strong in recent years (at over 10% per year), market penetration is still low (at roughly 20%).2 We believe this exemplifies the opportunity set’s long, stable runway for future growth as penetration rates steadily grow.
Importantly, this opportunity stretches across every asset class and the potential “winners” appear to be distinct in every geography. Local companies have thus far been better able to cater to local demographics. We therefore believe deep subsector expertise across financial technology is critical to finding opportunities within these diverse markets.
Opportunity and accessibility through digital platforms Large segments of the world’s population still do not have access to fairly priced banking options or convenient ways to invest their money. For instance, approximately 1.5 billion adults do not have access to a bank account.3
To help serve these populations, online investment platforms are digitizing their product sets to provide easily accessible, cheaper, and less complex offerings in comparison to traditional banks. Fortunately, access to digital financial products and services is therefore expanding globally at a rapid rate, and adoption has only been accelerated by the pandemic.
In particular, these companies are greatly improving accessibility in emerging markets. New online services make investing easier in markets where many have not historically had easy access to a bank account or brokerage services. One such example is the leading digital investing platform in Brazil.
For many years, Brazil’s onshore retail investing market was narrow and limited to buying high-yielding government bonds. But interest rates have come down significantly over the past few years, leading to a broader investment culture. Since 2015, the demand for investing has been exploding and broadening. Notably, Brazil is more digital than many EM countries, making human interaction with customers a less-relevant hurdle. This trend was further highlighted in the wake of the pandemic.
Many online platform providers such as this have successfully expanded their existing customer base into adjacent product sets. For example, a digital investing platform can more easily cross-sell existing customers into its banking, lending, and insurance offerings as it has already established connectivity and trust. As digital platforms develop and then broaden to adjacent products, we think their underlying customer populations will further benefit from increasing opportunity and accessibility.
The benefits of systematized decision making Market data surrounding financial transactions and information has long been opaque or simply unavailable. But as the digitization of financial services develops, owners of this data are realizing they possess extremely valuable assets. New technologies like the cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are allowing firms to harness this data to improve their decision making. Increasingly, financial analysis is therefore becoming systematic and data driven.
Software providers and data owners are the critical arms merchants to legacy financial services firms trying to “systematize” their businesses. Improving utilization of technology and data can materially enhance their businesses, but companies must have both the data and a technology platform that can handle the types of analytics required for higher volumes of data. For example, loan officers previously met loan applicants to evaluate their creditworthiness and approve or reject applications. New software can help companies harness their data to create more scalable and efficient digital processes to price loans leading to better credit outcomes for the bank and broader credit availability for the economy. During the crisis, this type of technology has been essential to many financial services companies as in-person meetings were not possible.
In Figure 2, we highlight a firm specializing in direct and fund-of-fund investments whose business model is based on leveraging its long-held proprietary database of private-market deals.
FIGURE 2Digitization offers opportunity, access, and transparency The recent global health crisis has helped to prove the critical nature of digitization. We believe innovations driving the digitization of financial services will continue to disrupt the industry throughout the 2020s. Importantly, along with providing an incredible breadth of investment opportunities, we think these developments have the potential to offer unparalleled opportunity, access, and transparency to new regions and markets.
1Source: McKinsey Global Institute, “The Promise of Digital Finance,” December 2016. This is the latest data available from the source. | 2Sources: Company Data, TRACE. Data as of 31 December 2020. | Sources: World Bank’s Global Findex Database, December 2017. Wellington Management estimates, December 2020.
Across every vertical of the financial services industry, innovators and disruptors are increasingly applying modern technology to digitize (and improve) processes that used to be performed manually. This shift has become increasingly important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial institutions with more modern technology have been able to adapt to an increasingly digital customer base and workforce.
Beyond helping to solve many of the challenges presented by a global health crisis, the transition to digital typically makes these processes cheaper, creates better risk-adjusted outcomes, and often results in better end-customer experiences. Historically, for new fintech companies, customer connectivity and trust can take a long time to develop as consumer behavior can be hard to change when it relates to financial decision making. But in the crisis, we’ve seen technological adoption accelerate quickly. Importantly, once these businesses reach scale, we think they tend to be highly profitable and sticky.
In this piece, we highlight the broad opportunity offered by the digitization of financial services and profile a few key areas (and companies) we find particularly exciting.
A long runway for digital transformation In our view, countless manual processes across each vertical have not yet been digitized. This offers a wide and long-term opportunity set as human processes — previously done by bank employees, financial advisers, traders, etc. — will be increasingly enhanced by digitization. As an example of the sheer scale of the potential growth, emerging markets (EM) GDP could increase by approximately US$3.7 trillion by 2025 if digital finance is widely adopted.1
We believe this opportunity has been hastened by the pandemic but is still quite early in its growth curve and expect the trend to persist throughout the 2020s. Many of the leaders in this space have grown consistently at 10% – 15% CAGRs (compound annual growth rates) for years, but their market shares remain small, potentially offering long runways for growth (Figure 1).
FIGURE 1Figure 1 shows how the leading electronic bond-trading platform is gaining share of the total credit trading markets. While growth has been strong in recent years (at over 10% per year), market penetration is still low (at roughly 20%).2 We believe this exemplifies the opportunity set’s long, stable runway for future growth as penetration rates steadily grow.
Importantly, this opportunity stretches across every asset class and the potential “winners” appear to be distinct in every geography. Local companies have thus far been better able to cater to local demographics. We therefore believe deep subsector expertise across financial technology is critical to finding opportunities within these diverse markets.
Opportunity and accessibility through digital platforms Large segments of the world’s population still do not have access to fairly priced banking options or convenient ways to invest their money. For instance, approximately 1.5 billion adults do not have access to a bank account.3
To help serve these populations, online investment platforms are digitizing their product sets to provide easily accessible, cheaper, and less complex offerings in comparison to traditional banks. Fortunately, access to digital financial products and services is therefore expanding globally at a rapid rate, and adoption has only been accelerated by the pandemic.
In particular, these companies are greatly improving accessibility in emerging markets. New online services make investing easier in markets where many have not historically had easy access to a bank account or brokerage services. One such example is the leading digital investing platform in Brazil.
For many years, Brazil’s onshore retail investing market was narrow and limited to buying high-yielding government bonds. But interest rates have come down significantly over the past few years, leading to a broader investment culture. Since 2015, the demand for investing has been exploding and broadening. Notably, Brazil is more digital than many EM countries, making human interaction with customers a less-relevant hurdle. This trend was further highlighted in the wake of the pandemic.
Many online platform providers such as this have successfully expanded their existing customer base into adjacent product sets. For example, a digital investing platform can more easily cross-sell existing customers into its banking, lending, and insurance offerings as it has already established connectivity and trust. As digital platforms develop and then broaden to adjacent products, we think their underlying customer populations will further benefit from increasing opportunity and accessibility.
The benefits of systematized decision making Market data surrounding financial transactions and information has long been opaque or simply unavailable. But as the digitization of financial services develops, owners of this data are realizing they possess extremely valuable assets. New technologies like the cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are allowing firms to harness this data to improve their decision making. Increasingly, financial analysis is therefore becoming systematic and data driven.
Software providers and data owners are the critical arms merchants to legacy financial services firms trying to “systematize” their businesses. Improving utilization of technology and data can materially enhance their businesses, but companies must have both the data and a technology platform that can handle the types of analytics required for higher volumes of data. For example, loan officers previously met loan applicants to evaluate their creditworthiness and approve or reject applications. New software can help companies harness their data to create more scalable and efficient digital processes to price loans leading to better credit outcomes for the bank and broader credit availability for the economy. During the crisis, this type of technology has been essential to many financial services companies as in-person meetings were not possible.
In Figure 2, we highlight a firm specializing in direct and fund-of-fund investments whose business model is based on leveraging its long-held proprietary database of private-market deals.
FIGURE 2Digitization offers opportunity, access, and transparency The recent global health crisis has helped to prove the critical nature of digitization. We believe innovations driving the digitization of financial services will continue to disrupt the industry throughout the 2020s. Importantly, along with providing an incredible breadth of investment opportunities, we think these developments have the potential to offer unparalleled opportunity, access, and transparency to new regions and markets.
1Source: McKinsey Global Institute, “The Promise of Digital Finance,” December 2016. This is the latest data available from the source. | 2Sources: Company Data, TRACE. Data as of 31 December 2020. | Sources: World Bank’s Global Findex Database, December 2017. Wellington Management estimates, December 2020.
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