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Milestones on the frontier

Press releases, awards and industry firsts from African Frontier Capital and Solar Frontier Capital.

Solar energy - electric lighting
Latest · Press Release

AFC announces the success of its senior green bond issue with a 100% guarantee from the Green Guarantee Company for a nominal amount of USD 50 million

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Sustainability

AFC / Sustainable Fitch Second-Party Opinion on Green Finance Framework

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Framework

Green Finance Framework

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Policy

Our Environmental and Social Policy document

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Milestone

AFC and d.light achieve off-grid solar industry milestone with full repayment of senior debt for USD 110M securitization facility

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Chapel Hill Denham
Partnership

AFC, d.light and Chapel Hill Denham close Naira 10 billion in securitized financing to fund off-grid solar expansion in Nigeria

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Industry First

AFC announces first ever credit rating for a securitization structure in the OGS PAYGO sector

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Expansion

AFC announces expansion of industry-leading USD 490 million multi-currency social impact receivable securitization structure for d.light

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Innovation

d.light, SFC, and Lendahand announce innovative crowdfunded RBF tranche to drive sustainability goals

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Facility

d.light and SFC announce industry-leading USD 238 million multi-currency receivable financing facility

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Recognition

AFC selected for inclusion in 2021 ImpactAssets 50 Emerging Impact Managers listing

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Listing

ImpactAssets 50 Database — AFC's Profile Listing

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Solar Panels
In the Press

African Energy Newsletter, Issue 431: "d.light receivables vehicle grows to $127m" (page 5)

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Partnership

Norfund joins SFC's USD 127 million social impact securitization vehicle for the off-grid solar sector in Kenya

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Launch

SFC launches $65 million PAYGO receivables structure for d.light

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Award

2017 Awardee of the Scaling Off-Grid Energy (SOGE) Grand Challenge for Development

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Award

Private Equity Africa Magazine's Special Recognition Exit of the Year Award 2015

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