African Trade & Investment Development Insurance Records Robust Financial Results in 2025
The African Trade & Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI), reported double-digit growth across key financial indicators as African leaders reaffirmed the institution's strategic role in mobilising investment and lowering the cost of capital across the continent.
The results were announced during ATIDI's 26th Annual General Meeting, held in Nairobi from 30 June to 3 July under the theme "Empowering Africa: Risk Managed, Growth Unlocked."
ATIDI delivered robust financial results in 2025 despite continued global economic uncertainty.
Total exposure increased to USD9.2 billion, up from USD8.9 billion in 2024, while profit for the year rose 20 percent to USD71.4 million. Total assets surpassed the USD1 billion mark for the first time, growing 20 percent to USD1.06 billion, while shareholders' equity increased 12 percent to USD883 million, strengthening the institution's underwriting capacity and financial resilience.
Speaking at the AGM, ATIDI Chief Executive Officer Manuel Moses said the results reflect the institution's resilience and growing importance in supporting investment across Africa.
"Against a backdrop of continued global uncertainty and the lingering effects of the COVID pandemic, ATIDI delivered another year of resilient growth in 2025, with strong results across insurance revenue, investment income and total equity," he said.
Silver Jubilee
The pan African insurer also celebrated its Silver Jubilee during the annual meetings, highlighting the institution's growing development impact. Since its establishment, ATIDI has facilitated more than USD93 billion in trade and investment across Africa through political risk insurance, credit insurance and other risk mitigation instruments that enhance investor confidence.
Its shareholder base has expanded from seven founding members to 24 African countries, 13 institutional shareholders and one non-African member state, while consistently maintaining investment-grade credit ratings from leading international rating agencies.
"We have demonstrated that African solutions are often best placed to address Africa's unique challenges and opportunities. We have built our success on the ability to combine world-class standards with a deep understanding of African markets," Moses said.
ATIDI Board Chairman Professor Kelly Mua Kingsly said investor confidence remains Africa's most valuable economic asset.
"Africa's greatest asset is confidence. If capital is the engine of development, confidence is its fuel. We do not merely mitigate risk. We create confidence."
The AGM also underscored ATIDI's growing strategic importance within Africa's emerging financial architecture.
Stronger African financial institutions
Kenya’s President William Ruto, who officiated the opening ceremony of the three-day event, called for stronger African financial institutions and endorsed the New African Financial Architecture for Development (NAFAD), an initiative aimed at mobilising domestic capital, strengthening risk-sharing mechanisms and reducing Africa's borrowing costs.
Describing ATIDI as a key pillar of the initiative, President Ruto called for the institution's recapitalisation to USD2 billion and announced that Kenya will, subject to the necessary national processes, progressively increase its shareholding from USD25 million to USD65 million.
“Africa does not suffer from a shortage of capital. Africa suffers from a shortage of institutions capable of transforming risk, mobilising savings and connecting them to productive investment,” President Ruto said.
The President also presented ATIDI with the title deed for land designated for its permanent headquarters.
Increased stake
At the event, African Development Bank Group President Dr. Sidi Ould Tah also announced that the Bank had increased its equity participation in ATIDI fivefold, making it the institution's largest institutional shareholder, while pledging support to help more African countries join the institution.
"The challenge before us is not a lack of capital or opportunities, but a persistent mispricing of African risk," Dr. Tah said, adding that ATIDI's guarantee instruments are essential to unlocking greater private investment across the continent.