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Afreximbank’s Mission-critical Internal Processes

Afreximbank is a pan-African trade and finance institution headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, with offices stretching across four African countries. Established in 1993, the bank’s vision is to increase Africa’s share of global trade—stimulating trade both within and beyond the African continent.

One way Afreximbank works to achieve its mandate is to send teams on “missions,” as they refer to them internally. These missions include travel to key financial centers for events and meetings with organizations interested in trade with Africa, and require a great deal of planning, logistical coordination, and reporting.

The problem? When Emeka Onyia, who leads Innovation and Product Development at Afreximbank, came to Net Solutions, most of Afreximbank’s processes surrounding their missions were manual, stuck in the 20th century. These offline processes led to mistakes, frustrating everyone involved and wasting precious time, effort, and money.

Emeka knew they needed a better way of doing things, so he spearheaded a digital transformation that would digitize the entire process surrounding the bank’s missions, optimizing workflows. The aim was to create an operationally efficient, easy-to-use platform that would reduce errors and simplify the organization’s processes.