Date de publication: 20 mars 2024
Promoteur – Intermédiaire Financier
INTOUCH SASLieu
Description
The investment programme concerns various different measures driving the promoter's medium term growth strategy. Such strategy plans to strengthen and standardise the technical platform, develop new payment services, a new type of terminals, including the geographical expansion from about 11 countries today to more than 20 countries all over Africa by 2024.
Objectifs
The aim is to easy and widespread access to enhanced digital financial services help developing countries to accelerate the economic development and the transformation to a digital economy through private sector digitalisation and increased entrepreneurship. The transformation to a digital economy is at the centre of the African Union's economic and social development's strategy.
Secteur(s)
- Services - Activités financières et d'assurance
Montant BEI envisagé (montant approximatif)
EUR 10 million
Coût total (montant approximatif)
EUR 22 million
Aspects environnementaux
The project comprises mostly software development for payment services and IT investments for the African expansion. The operation of the productive IT systems is not handled by the promoter itself. It has been outsourced to a well-known service provider in Europe. Therefore the project does not fall under Annexes I and II of the EU Directive 2014/52/EU amending the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive 2011/92/EU, and it is also not subject to mandatory EIA.
Passation des marchés
The promoter is a private company operating in the financial sector, which is exempted from public procurement requirements. The procedures applied will be verified in detail during the appraisal.
Statut
Signé - 23/02/2023
Clause de non-responsabilité
Avant d’être approuvés par le Conseil d’administration et avant la signature des prêts correspondants, les projets font l’objet d’une instruction et de négociations. Par conséquent, les informations et données fournies sur cette page sont indicatives.
Elles sont fournies à des fins de transparence uniquement et ne peuvent être considérées comme représentant la politique officielle de la BEI (voir également les notes explicatives).