Date: 25-26 Febraury 2026
Venue: Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC)
Co-hosted by
Overview
Join us in Cape Town for the inaugural Loan and Capital Markets Africa Summit hosted by the Loan Market Association (LMA) and the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) - a landmark event uniting leaders across Africa’s financial ecosystem.
Organised by two of the world’s most influential market associations, this new summit is designed by the industry, for the industry. It aims to bring together over 1,000 borrowers, issuers, investors, lenders, insurers, and market participants to explore the forces transforming African financial markets - and to shape their future together.
- Cutting-edge conference agenda led by Africa’s leading voices
- Extensive networking and deal-making opportunities
- Complimentary classroom-based training by experts on key issues including sustainable finance, sovereign borrowing considerations, and JIBAR transition
- Free passes available for LMA and ICMA members
Mark your calendar now and be part of a tailored event aimed at enhancing liquidity, efficiency, transparency, and sustainability in Africa’s loan and capital markets.
Interested in sponsoring this event? Contact us: sponsorship@icmagroup.org
Interested in speaking opportunities? Contact Amelia.Slocombe@lma.eu.com or Allan.Malvar@icmagroup.org
Full programme and registration details coming soon.
Lead sponsors
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The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) is a multilateral development bank, whose unique mission is to promote social cohesion in its 43 member states across Europe. The CEB finances investment in social sectors, including education, health and affordable housing, with a focus on the needs of vulnerable people. Borrowers include governments, local and regional authorities, public and private banks, non-profit organisations and others. As a multilateral bank with an excellent credit rating, the CEB funds itself on the international capital markets. It approves projects according to strict social, environmental and governance criteria, and provides technical assistance. |
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Sustainable Fitch provides insights, tools and data that have been designed and built entirely and exclusively to help bring clarity to the ESG financial community. Our focus is, and will always be, on providing transparent, objective and substantive data that enables confidence in decision-making. To best serve our clients and partners, Fitch realized that it would be necessary to build an entirely new product suite of objective ESG data and analysis, focusing on consistency, comparability, coverage and granularity. Leaning on our expertise in best-in-class analytics and research, and reputation for transparency and integrity, our team of leading ESG experts came together to bring the financial community a robust and comprehensive ESG data and analysis solution. Powered by the human insight that has differentiated Fitch for over 100 years, Sustainable Fitch brings experience and heritage to help the financial community make smarter decisions, using the best ESG information available. |
Supporting sponsor
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Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 9th largest banking group worldwide in terms of 2023 balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2024). Crédit Agricole CIB is a global leader in sustainable finance | co-founder of the Equator Principles, co-author of the the Green Bond Principles and Sustainability Linked Bond Principles. |
| Overview of the latest developments in the sustainable bond markets: an ICMA and BofA Securities training workshop (by invitation only) Organised by: ICMA and BofA Securities Time: 08:30 - 16:30 SGT, Tuesday, June 27 Venue: The Westin Singapore ICMA and BofA Securities will hold a one-day training workshop aimed at regulators, issuers, investors and other market participants from the APAC region on June 27 at the Westin Singapore. The workshop will cover a comprehensive range of topics including: an overview of the Principles, financing themes such as climate transition, blue and biodiversity, overview of the EU/ASEAN taxonomies, an update on external reviews, disclosures and reporting as well as a case study on sustainability-linked bond issuance. Presenters will include representatives from ICMA, IFC, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, BofA Securities, RAM Sustainability and Dentons Hong Kong. |
| Roundtable on Singapore GFIT Taxonomy (invitation only) Organised by ICMA Time: 10:00-11:30 SGT, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 Venue: Singapore |
| Roundtable on global and Asian transition finance (invitation only) Organised by ICMA Time: 15:30-17:00 SGT, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 Venue: Singapore |
