{"id":205536,"date":"2021-10-19T12:36:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afdb.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/cabo-verde-african-development-bank-group-extends-350000-grant-for-technical-assistance-to-deepen-national-capital-markets?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-10-19T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:36:40","slug":"cabo-verde-african-development-bank-group-extends-350000-grant-for-technical-assistance-to-deepen-national-capital-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cabo-verde-african-development-bank-group-extends-350000-grant-for-technical-assistance-to-deepen-national-capital-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabo Verde: African Development Bank Group extends $350,000 grant for technical assistance to deepen national capital markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/4b6cb62cd021d5d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/4b6cb62cd021d5d\" alt=\"African Development Bank Group (AfDB)\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/4b6cb62cd021d5d\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved $350,000 in grant funding for technical assistance to consolidate the country&rsquo;s capital markets strategy and increase the liquidity of its fixed income markets.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The grant will be sourced from the Capital Markets Development Trust Fund, a multi-donor fund administered by the African Development Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The national stock exchange, Bolsa de Valores de Cabo Verde (BVC), will use the funds to develop a capital markets masterplan and upgrade current infrastructure to stimulate liquidity in secondary bond markets.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are delighted for the partnership with the BVC and the domestic capital markets ecosystem to support capital markets development in Cabo Verde,&rdquo; said Ahmed Attout, Manager of the African Development Bank&rsquo;s capital markets development division.<\/p>\n<p>The program design emerged from a participatory process involving the BVC, the national ministry of Finance, the capital markets regulator, Auditoria Geral do Mercado de Valores Mobili&aacute;rios and the country&rsquo;s central bank, Banco de Cabo Verde.<\/p>\n<p>Marcia Teixeira, BVC Executive Director said, &ldquo;AfDB&acute;s partnership, for which we are grateful, will help consolidate the capital markets as a means of excellence in project financing and resource mobilization.&rdquo; It will help empower the capital markets to boost SDG implementation and its financing in Cabo Verde and West Africa, with impacts for regional and continental integration,&rdquo; &nbsp;she said.<\/p>\n<p>Cabo Verde&rsquo;s national stock exchange began operations in 1998 to provide an alternative source of investment and financing to the private sector. Since 2005, around $1.4 billion worth of securities have been issued on the bourse, which has a current market capitalization of around $962 million, equivalent to just over half of the country&rsquo;s GDP.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Development Bank Group (AfDB).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media contact:<\/strong><br \/>\nOlufemi Terry<br \/>\nCommunication and External Relations Department<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:o.terry@afdb.org\">o.terry@afdb.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical <\/strong><strong>contact:<\/strong><br \/>\nAlbin Kakou<br \/>\nPrincipal Investment Officer<br \/>\nAfrican Development Bank<\/p>\n<p><strong>About CMDTF:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Capital Markets Development Trust Fund (CMDTF) is a multi-donor grant facility designed to develop robust African capital markets and support the Bank&rsquo;s efforts to mobilize domestic resources to finance Africa&rsquo;s development. Administered by the Bank, the CMDTF is supported by the Ministry of Finance of Luxembourg and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Cooperation of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved $350,000 in grant funding for technical assistance to consolidate the country&rsquo;s capital markets strategy and increase the liquidity of its fixed income markets.&nbsp; &nbsp; The grant will be sourced from the Capital Markets Development Trust Fund, a multi-donor fund administered by the African Development Bank. 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