Jabor International Investment QSC Makes Mark in Africa Visit

West Bay, Qatar, November 23, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Jabor International Investment QSC, or JIIQ, has concluded a series international roadshows with a visit to Seychelles, in line with its recently-announced 2024 Strategy.

The private financial centre, which connects businesses and financial institutions with opportunities across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region, aims to stimulate trade and investment flows along the South-South corridor, using Doha as a hub.

During the visit to Africa - following a number of successful stakeholder engagement trips to China, India, Brazil and Peru earlier this year - the JIIQ's executive leadership attended the 2015 Institute of International Finance Africa Financial Summit and the EY Strategic Forum Africa. The delegation met with over 25 high-profile government authorities, prominent financial industry officials and leading private and public sector companies from the banking and finance, professional services and corporate sectors.

Africa is the fastest-growing economy in the world, with a third of the continent's 54 countries experiencing annual GDP growth of more than six per cent, compared to the global world average of 3.7 per cent, as reported by the Doha Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

His Excellency Sheikh Jabor bin Hamad bin Jabor Al Thani, President at the JIIQ Qatar, said: "Africa's immense inward and outward investment potential was a key consideration when developing our 10 year growth strategy. One of our primary objectives is to help build synergies between Africa and the Middle East, Latin America and Asia - particularly China and India - by providing a stable, transparent and enabling business environment for financial firms looking to tap into this highly lucrative emerging market."

According to the annual African Economic Outlook report by the Organisation for Economic Coperation and Development, the African Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, private investment from other countries into Africa will grow to $55.2 billion in 2015, an increase of 10 per cent than last year.

Simultaneously, a number of African firms have ambitions to expand their operations globally. JIIQ's internationally-recognised legal and regulatory framework, combined with Doha's connectivity and sophisticated social infrastructure, has made the firm an attractive hub for African companies who want to engage with multinational institutions and target global economies.