The Africa SME Finance Academy, asfa, is a one-week training programme designed to deliver skills and knowledge on how to lend and/or finance small and medium sized enterprises.

asfa delivers courses intended to impart insights and ideas to bankers and SME Finance Managers, that are necessary in developing and executing an effective SME lending strategy.

asfa also provides an opportunity to interact with leading, experienced faculty and share experiences with peers drawn from different industry backgrounds and business environments.

FrontFin Media, which also manages the School of Applied Microfinance (sam), a subsidiary of J.M Mantle & Company Limited, is focused on equipping professionals in Frontier Finance – Micro and SME – with insights, knowledge, ideas and skills to make them high performers in their assignments. The goal of FrontFin Media is to see Africa’s frontier finance markets better served with financial information as well as build capacity and technical know-how.

JM Mantle is an independent professional services company based in Kenya and engaged in the provision of specialised Financial Advisory, Consulting and Training services. The Firm’s services are offered to a broad spectrum of clients ranging from businesses (predominantly financial institutions), NGOs and development agencies. JM Mantle was founded in 1997 as a vehicle to pool the talents and leverage off the experiences of its founding principals, who shared a vision of providing professional services to suppliers and users of capital.