Constantin von Moltke joins Afreximbank as Head of Syndicated Loans

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Cairo, 06 September 2016: – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced the appointment of Constantin von Moltke, formerly of the African development bank, to the position of Head of Syndicated Loans (Structuring and Distribution).

Mr. von Moltke joins Afreximbank from the African Development Bank (AfDB), where, for the past four years, he served as Head of Loan Syndication and Co-Financing in the Private Sector Department. He has more than 20 years’ experience in structured finance, including 15 years focused on syndicated loans.

Prior to his AfDB experience, he was Global Head of the Project and Commodity Finance Loan Syndication team at UniCredit Group from 2002 to 2012 and also served as Manager in the European Energy and Utilities project and acquisition finance team at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he worked from 1996 to 2001.

Mr. von Moltke started his career at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva.

He holds a Master of Economics and Social Sciences from Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelm Univerisität, Germany.

A British-German national, Mr. von Moltke is a member of the Loan Market Association’s Africa Group and Chairman of the working group of the African Financing Partnership, a formal cooperation entity of eight development finance institutions active in Africa.

In his new position, he will report to Irfan Afzal, who was also recently appointed Director of Syndication and Agency at Afreximbank.

 

Media Contact: Obi Emekekwue (oemekekwue@afreximbank.com; Tel. +202-2456-4238)

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About Afreximbank:

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is the foremost Pan-African multilateral financial institution devoted to financing and promoting intra- and extra-African trade. The Bank was established in October 1993 by African governments, African private and institutional investors, and non-African investors. Its two basic constitutive documents are the Establishment Agreement, which gives it the status of an international organization, and the Charter, which governs its corporate structure and operations. Since 1994, it has approved more than $41 billion in credit facilities for African businesses, including about $6.2 billion in 2015. Afreximbank had total assets of $9.4 billion as at 30 April 2016 and is rated BBB- (Fitch) and Baa2 (Moody’s). The Bank is headquartered in Cairo. For more information, visit: www.afreximbank.com