Making Trade Bankable
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Trade Catalyst Africa
EABIS Summit
ICC Kenya Business Summit 2026
What Trade in Africa needs now
Trade Catalyst Africa Appoints Gabriel Negatu as Interim Board Chair and Welcomes Professor Dominic McVey MBE to the Board
Reimagining Border Efficiency: Insights from the Kisumu OSBP Design Workshop
With Tariffs Gone, What Comes Next
Driving Prosperity Through trade
From border posts to digital platforms, we de-risk investments so capital flows into projects that accelerate exports, create jobs, and promote inclusive growth.
The ICC Kenya Business Summit 2026 (February 11-12) brought together business leaders, investors, development partners, and government…
At the East African Business & Investment Summit 2026, Antoinette Tesha, Investments…
On 3 February, President Donald Trump signed a law extending the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)…
Nairobi, Kenya | January 13, 2025 — Trade Catalyst Africa (TCA) announces the appointment of Gabriel…
Trade Catalyst Africa (TCA) and TradeMark Africa (TMA) brought together representatives from government agencies, revenue authorities…
Trade Catalyst Africa (TCA) is a catalytic financing facility that addresses the challenge of access to finance for trade infrastructure, both hard and soft, and provides better access to trade finance for Small and Medium–Sized Enterprises (SMEs).
We achieve this through blended finance to de-risk commercial investments in trade projects. We partner with public and private sector organisations to achieve our mandate, focusing our efforts on projects that promote trade, resilience, inclusivity, and sustainability.
For Africa, improved trade infrastructure means smooth movement of goods, people, and information, while access to trade finance for SMEs means increased working capital, business expansion into new export markets, and improved livelihoods.
We aim to be an evergreen fund, revolving our funding across multiple projects by recouping our investments through a transparent revenue model.
TCA is wholly owned by TradeMark Africa.
