{"id":209579,"date":"2025-10-12T00:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-atfs2025-african-trade-experts-to-meet-in-abidjan-trade-finance-gap-high-on-agenda\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:21:50","slug":"africa-atfs2025-african-trade-experts-to-meet-in-abidjan-trade-finance-gap-high-on-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-atfs2025-african-trade-experts-to-meet-in-abidjan-trade-finance-gap-high-on-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: ATFS2025 &#8211; African Trade Experts to Meet in Abidjan &#8211; &#8211; Trade Finance Gap High On Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">As global financial headwinds continue to squeeze emerging markets, Africa&#8217;s trade finance gap, estimated at up to $100 billion annually, will once again come under the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">To help close this gap, Afreximbank will host the 25th edition of its flagship Trade Finance Seminar (ATFS2025) in Abidjan from November 4-6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The discussions will explore innovative financing structures designed to unlock new business opportunities, with a particular focus on supporting small and medium-sized&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100393.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As global financial headwinds continue to squeeze emerging markets, Africa&#8217;s trade finance gap, estimated at up to $100 billion annually, will once again come under the spotlight. To help close this gap, Afreximbank will host the 25th edition of its flagship Trade Finance Seminar (ATFS2025) in Abidjan from November 4-6, 2025. The discussions will explore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2554,258,256,4380,5701,52552,6183,6555,5060,7829,12910,6184,1218,6508,257,254,5979],"class_list":["post-209579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-agenda","tag-atfs2025","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-experts","tag-finance","tag-gap","tag-high","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-meet","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}