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This episode features the role of the Nigerian Infrastructure Credit Enhancement Facility (InfraCredit) in supporting the development of local capital markets. GuarantCo and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) established InfraCredit in 2017 to act as a market champion for the development of the local debt capital markets to mobilise long-term investment from local institutional investors and finance infrastructure projects in Nigeria in local currency.
Contributing to the podcast are: Uche Orji, Managing Director and CEO of the NSIA; Wale Okunrinboye, Head of Investment Research Sigma Pensions; Chinua Azukike, CEO InfraCredit Nigeria; Eniola Lawal, Development Impact Officer InfraCredit Nigeria and Lasitha Perera, CEO GuarantCo.
Recorded December 2020.
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