Company website: https://www.rmb.co.za/

Profile

RMB at a glance

Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) is a leading African Corporate and Investment Bank and part of one of the largest financial services groups (by market capitalisation) in Africa – FirstRand Bank Limited. We offer our clients innovative, value-added advisory, funding, trading, corporate banking and principal investing solutions.

At RMB we are passionate about solving problems for our clients by seeking solutions beyond the obvious. We are innovative in our thinking and turn challenges into opportunities. We call ourselves Solutionist Thinkers who deliver on Traditional values. Innovative ideas.

Our ability to think differently, our collaborative spirit, our client-centric approach and our belief that great minds don’t always have to think alike, is what sets us apart from our competitors. The emerging and necessary focus on ESG as a tool for capital allocation will lead to more effective and efficient capital markets when principles are adopted by stakeholders. RMB continues to embed ESG principles into our frameworks so that we can deliver relevant solutions that are valued by our clients in the markets in which we operate.

As the Corporate and Investment arm of FirstRand Bank Limited (which is wholly-owned by FirstRand Limited), we have access to a network of retail banks in 25 African countries, including representative offices and branches in the UK, India and China.

For more information please visit: www.rmb.co.za

Event Sponsorships

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023 - Platinum & ESG Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023 - Platinum & ESG Sponsor

ESG & Capital Markets Africa 2021 - Virtual - Bronze Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Virtual Conference - Silver Sponsor

ESG & Capital Markets Africa 2020 - Virtual Conference - Silver Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Silver Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Nigeria 2019 - Silver Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2019 - Silver Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2019 - Silver Sponsor

Contributors

Onke Mkiva

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Reprofiling Africa’s debt: How to successfully refinance and restructure bonds and loans in volatile times

Nana Phiri

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Chairperson’s remarks
• Chairperson’s closing remarks followed by networking drinks reception

Daniel Kavishe

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Macroeconomic outlook for the African continent: How is rising inflation, interest rates and a stronger dollar going to impact growth and investment?

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Africa outlook 2022: Which global, political, and economic factors are having the greatest impact on the continent’s growth trajectory?

Helen Mtshali

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Africa’s loan market under the microscope: unpacking supply, demand and the impact of COVID-19

Lwandi Nene

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Corporate funding and risk: How has the approach to capital raising and risk management changed (during and) post-pandemic?

Matthew Van Der Horn

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020

Ebrahim Moola

Miranda Abraham

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Underwriting and syndicating loans in 2023: Balancing structure with liquidity and price

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Supporting pre-COVID activity and easing the downturn: How are DFIs, ECAs and commercial banks working alongside each other to ease the financial impact of the pandemic on the continent?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020

Dalu Ajene

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Chairman's opening remarks

Nigel Beck

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Weighing up the options: A closer look at SDG-linked products, how they compare and what is next for this (growing) market

ESG & Capital Markets Africa 2021 - Virtual

• COP26 and net zero by 2050: How does the African ESG and transition story fit within a global context?

ESG & Capital Markets Africa 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Implementing Sustainable Finance products: What can African players learn from successful ESG strategies and issuances in other regions?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2019

• Going green: Assessing the capacity of green bonds and loans to attract fresh pools of liquidity to East Africa’s capital markets

Kavish Govender

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2019

• The benefits of achieving regulatory harmonisation and good governance and its impact on developing the local capital markets

Misheck Chingaya

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2019

• BY INVITATION ONLY: East African Investor Breakfast Roundtable: Energy & Infrastructure

Jo Maharaj

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Virtual Conference

• How have banks’ approach to lending in the syndicated market changed in the COVID era?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk 24 2020

• How to navigate the African loan markets now and post-COVID19

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2019

• Underwrite-to-distribute vs. Club vs. Bilateral: How to lend in Africa in 2019

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2019

• How are East Africa’s leading corporates financing CAPEX and commercial growth?

Neville Mandimika

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Capital markets strategies in the new normal: Managing FX volatility, rating downgrades, and access to markets

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2019

• Trade, oil price, inflation, interest rates, growth: Africa’s dashboard macroeconomic of risk factors and their impact on financial markets

Articles from Bonds & Loans

• 9 Mar 2020: Downgrade Would Lead to Exponential Growth in Borrowing Costs – Rand Merchant Bank