Top speakers including Government leaders, policy-makers, bankers, investors and experts will be debating the future of Africa’s debt capital markets on Monday 30 June at the London Stock Exchange. The African Debt Capital Markets ADCM 2014 conference is organized by African Banker magazine. I am honoured to be moderating some sessions.

Among the conference highlights are debates on whether African governments have been using bond proceeds wisely, the future for African bond issuances, local currency markets and the challenges of deepening the debt capital markets. There will be calls for policy-makers to make changes to support securitization and other steps to boost finance for development, jobs and growth, following successes in Asia and the world.

Speakers include the Hon Kweku Ricketts-Hagan, Ghana’s deputy Minister of Finance, and Dr Abraham Nwankwo, Director-General of the Nigeria Debt Management Office and Jaloul Ayed, a former Minister of Finance from Tunisia. There will also be Mary Eduk from the Securities and Exchange Commission in Nigeria, Uche Orji of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, and Stephen Opata from Bank of Ghana.

Stock exchange leaders include Sunil Benimadhu, dynamic head of the African Securities Exchanges Association and CEO of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius, Moremi Marwa CEO of the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange and Innocent Dankaine from the Uganda Securities Exchange.

Banks, fund managers and stockbrokers include HSBC, Renaissance Capital, Investec, Ecobank and Exotix and there will be many leading legal and other experts including rating agencies Moody’s and Fitch.

There will be a special focus on the Nigerian Debt Capital Markets. Other panels will cover infrastructure, public-private partnerships, sovereign Eurobonds and local currency markets, shadow banking, Islamic finance, new institutional investor trends, and Africa’s standing among global markets.

For more information, look at the website here.