Market access for trade
We help established service providers follow their clients into new markets, identify local partners, coordinate market-entry requirements and develop new commercial opportunities.
Discuss your needsFrom entering a market to building sustainable cross-border operations, our services are shaped around your sector, your clients and your next destination.
We help established service providers follow their clients into new markets, identify local partners, coordinate market-entry requirements and develop new commercial opportunities.
Discuss your needsWe facilitate access to qualified capital providers for cross-border contracts, receivables and operating needs. Financing is structured around your business, sector and destination market.
Discuss your needsWe facilitate compliant repatriation and treasury coordination through qualified providers, helping businesses manage liquidity, reduce trapped-capital exposure where permitted and redeploy value.
Discuss your needsSpecialist support for businesses, institutions and trade ecosystems.
Purposeful market visits that connect businesses with opportunities, institutions and local partners.
Enquire about this serviceRelevant introductions between businesses with complementary needs and commercial objectives.
Enquire about this serviceAn authoritative interface with ministries of trade, port authorities and relevant public institutions.
Enquire about this serviceStructuring value chains, commercial pipelines and long-term cross-border relationships.
Enquire about this serviceFacilitating constructive dialogue and pathways to resolve trade-related disputes.
Enquire about this serviceMarket intelligence and sector-specific research for informed trade decisions.
Enquire about this serviceTranslating trade priorities into actionable policy and implementation support.
Enquire about this servicePractical physical and virtual training. Over 3,000 SMEs trained through our corporate social responsibility work.
Enquire about this serviceConnecting businesses and institutions through purposeful trade gatherings and showcases.
Enquire about this serviceGTM advisory, including cybersecurity, for better coordinated international operations.
Enquire about this serviceInstitutional-grade digital trade trust protocols under our digital trade and digital trust solution.
Enquire about this serviceHelping businesses and institutions navigate the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Enquire about this serviceSourcing the right event participants, sales representatives and community partnerships.
Enquire about this serviceInternational expansion creates financial needs. We coordinate access to appropriately licensed providers for payments and collections, foreign exchange, treasury, repatriation and capital. Our role is trade facilitation: connecting your business with the right infrastructure, expertise and qualified partners.
One of our most successful trade missions brought the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) and the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) to Nigeria. Over two days, Kenyan and Nigerian delegates met in roundtable and boardroom dialogue, heard from the Kenya Embassy, and visited markets and retail shelves in Lagos to see trading conditions first-hand.
Other collaborating institutions included the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS), and Wema Bank Plc.









Kenya-Nigeria Trade Mission strengthens business ties in landmark visit
Read on The Guardian NigeriaKenya-Nigeria Trade Mission strengthens business ties in landmark visit
Read on BusinessDayKNCCI at Lagos, Nigeria for a Trade Mission
Read on KNCCIResearch, policy advisory, development and implementation help build a stronger environment for trade.

Intra-African trade stands at only 14%. This policy brief traces much of that gap to fragmented SME support: inconsistent regulations, customs procedures and policies across borders, scattered information and slow processes that raise costs and limit market access. Written for South Africa’s G20 presidency, it calls on the G20 to prioritise intra-African trade and sets out six SME-centred recommendations to strengthen trade infrastructure and align national and regional policy.
Read the policy brief (PDF)