Ace Breaking News – New UK-Kenya investment partnership rings in UK trade visit
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Nairobi Securities Exchange launches partnership with UK development investor as UK trade lead visits Nairobi.
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Tuesday 24, September – The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and the UK government program MOBILIST have announced a new partnership at a launch event in Nairobi. The launch was attended by His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa, John Humphrey, at the start of a three-day visit to Kenya.
The partnership aims to drive the listing of new investment products in the Kenyan market and increase the amount of private sector capital available for development and climate projects in Kenya, and generate growth.
MOBILIST, an innovative part of the UK Government’s investment partnerships offer, provides investment and technical assistance to help businesses that contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to overcome the barriers that keep them from listing on a stock exchange.
The program has similar partnerships with several emerging market exchanges, including the Nigerian Exchange and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), and will consider applications from eligible Kenyan firms.
After recent trips to Egypt and Ethiopia, Trade Commissioner Humphrey’s visit to Kenya will focus on delivering long-term investment projects supporting the UK-Kenya Strategic Partnership. This ambitious five-year agreement unlocks mutual economic benefits for the UK and Kenya without loading Kenya with unsustainable debt.
In Nairobi he will meet the Cabinet Secretary for Investments, Trade and Industry, H.E Salim Mvurya, to drive the implementation of flagship UK-Kenya climate projects that support President Ruto’s Africa Green Industrialisation Initiative (AGII). He will also launch the British Business Breakfast Club to listen to British Kenyan enterprises' challenges.
Mr Humphrey will also visit Naivasha to meet one of Kenya’s biggest exporters of cut flowers, Flamingo Flowers – a British business that employs 11,000 people in Kenya. They benefit from the global suspension of the 8% export tariff for cut flowers entering the UK, an example of the UK supporting markets that matter to Kenya by removing barriers in areas that aim to have an immediate economic impact.
His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa, John Humphrey, said:
Mobilising investment solutions in Kenya are vital to economic growth as they provide a platform for Kenyan businesses to raise the capital they need to expand their operations, increase cross-border trade, and employ more Kenyans – and at the exact tackle climate change and achieve critical development goals.
Long-term investments that deliver lasting change for the people of both our countries are the cornerstone of the UK-Kenya economic relationship. We go far when we go together – I am delighted to be back in Kenya to deliver our mutually beneficial partnership which is rooted in respect.
Nairobi Securities Exchange CEO, Frank Mwiti, said:
The NSE is delighted to partner with the UK government-backed MOBILIST Programme. The strategic partnership between the NSE and MOBILIST aligns with our new strategic focus aimed at enabling the NSE to play a more dynamic role in mobilizing and channeling capital to sectors that have the most significant capital needs, with a particular focus on sustainable development. As a market, we will continue providing a pivotal intersection connecting capital to investment-grade opportunities in Kenya for sustained economic growth
MOBILIST Programme Lead at the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Ross Ferguson, said:
Public markets in Kenya and other African economies hold great untapped potential to mobilise the private capital the continent urgently needs to gain ground in addressing the SDGs and the severe impact of climate change. MOBILIST is proud to partner with the NSE in building a local capital market that can give the African firms working on these challenges access to the capital they need to grow.
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Additional Notes:
The UK-Kenya Strategic Partnership
The UK-Kenya strategic partnership joint statement can be found here.
About MOBILIST
A flagship UK government program, MOBILIST supports investment solutions that help deliver the climate transition and the United Nation’s Global Goals in developing economies. MOBILIST focuses on mobilizing institutional capital to spur new scalable and replicable financial products. MOBILIST invests capital, delivers technical assistance, conducts research, and builds partnerships to catalyze investment in newly listed products. www.mobilistglobal.com
MOBILIST is vital to the British Investment Partnerships (BIP) offer. BIP is a UK initiative combining the UK’s economic development and investment offer, development finance, capital market mobilization, and export finance with the best UK technical expertise and a partnerships approach.
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