ITFA Africa Regional Committee (ARC) Election for 2026-29

The third ITFA Africa Regional Committee (“ARC”) elections are scheduled to take place in November 2025. The ARC was created in 2017 to build a two-way bridge between developed markets and Africa, sharing international best practice and financial innovation through educational workshops, roundtables and webinars, and advocating for the African market with international regulators. 

The ARC now has 21 members from 12 African countries. The ARC Board comprises 10 permanent members drawn from ITFA’s membership, and includes representation from commercial banks, regional development banks, NBFIs, insurers and lawyers. The current Board’s tenure expires at the end of December 2025 and elections will held in November to elect the new Board which will take up its role on January 1st 2026.

The ARC statutes state that only ITFA Members with a physical presence in Africa can vote in the ARC elections, but don’t impose any restrictions in terms of which members can submit their candidacy. As such, we would like to invite all ITFA members who believe they could add a meaningful contribution to the ARC during the next three year mandate, to submit their candidacy to the forthcoming election.

The elections will be held electronically and each ITFA member domiciled in Africa will be sent a link to an online voting platform, alongside an outline of all the candidate institutions. Once at the voting platform, the main delegate will be able to select the ten candidates meriting a vote from the entire candidate pool.

If your institution is interested in being considered for election, please send an email to Tedd George, ARC Secretariat (tedd@itfa.org) expressing the intention to run, including a justification of why the institution and its main delegate should be elected (maximum 200 words). Although this is not mandatory according to the statutes, we would naturally suggest that some evidence is produced of the candidate’s involvement with African business. 

Applications must be received by 5.00pm London time on Friday 31st October 2025.