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Sterling Bank Promotes Renewable Energy-Powered Agriculture With Fresh AATIF Fund

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May 16, 2023
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Nigeria’s leading financial institution, Sterling Bank, in conjunction with the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF), is set to promote environment-friendly agriculture businesses by lending the sum of $15 million to sustainable and renewable energy-powered agriculture enterprises.

The $15 million medium-term facility from AATIF
extends its partnership with Sterling Bank, which started in 2019 with an initial vision to
support the growth of the bank’s agricultural activities.

Since then, Sterling Bank and AATIF have worked together on numerous projects, with the bank making commendable
contributions to the Nigerian agricultural sector. The extension of this partnership marks a new chapter in this fruitful relationship.

In a statement issued by the lender, Group Head for Agriculture and Solid Minerals Finance, Dr Olushola Obikanye, he said that the funding will further deepen Sterling’s agricultural investments in the agribusiness industry, promote sustainable practices, and encourage farmers to explore environment-friendly systems.

Also speaking on the funding, Sterling Bank’s Group Head for Energy, Dele Faseemo, said the fund will seek to increase Sterling’s funding for renewable energy installations in the agricultural sector and will positively impact lending in the sector as well as the Nigerian economy.

Ms Doris Koehn, chairperson of the AATIF Board of Directors, said of the deal: “When we first invested in Sterling Bank, we were keen to help actualize its impressive ambitions in growing its agricultural portfolio in Nigeria. Four and a half years later, we are proud to renew our
partnership with the Bank and are focused on further enabling its efforts towards serving local smallholder farmers.”

The Bank has become renowned as one of the key partners and lenders to the agricultural
sector, with over N100 billion, or approximately 13 percent of its lending portfolio, currently
financing agricultural businesses across Nigeria.

This, among other initiatives such as the Agriculture Summit Africa, the continent’s largest private sector-driven conference on the industry; and the Nigerian Farmers’ Radio, an educative radio programme promoting good agricultural practices aired in all geo-political zones of Nigeria; has endeared the bank to primary producers, aggregators, commodity processors, and exporters.

These initiatives recently saw Sterling awarded the best-participating bank by the Agric Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund.

Sterling has also innovated in the renewable energy space with the launch of Imperium, its
solution to power homes and businesses, and is currently in the final stages of deploying
Nigeria’s largest solar-powered solution for commercial property with the ongoing
transformation of its Lagos Marina headquarters.

The 18-storey building has been fitted with over 3,000 photovoltaic panels and will generate power from renewable sources
Agriculture and Renewable Energy form two of the five core pillars of Sterling’s now-famous
HEART strategy. With the remaining sectors being Health, Education and Transportation

About Sterling Bank Plc

Sterling Bank Plc “Your one-customer bank” is a full-service national commercial bank in
Nigeria. At Sterling Bank, our customers are our number one priority, and we value their feedback and ideas.

In over 60 years of operations, Sterling Bank (formerly NAL Bank) has evolved from the
nation’s pre-eminent investment banking institution to a fully-fledged commercial bank;
and completed a merger with four other banks – Indo-Nigeria Merchant Bank, Magnum Trust
Bank, NBM Bank and Trust Bank of Africa – as part of the 2006 consolidation of the Nigerian
banking industry.

About Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF)

The Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund is a public-private partnership dedicated to promoting the food / agri sector across Africa by providing patient capital and technical assistance. The fund provides debt financing to small, medium, and large-scale
agribusinesses along the entire agriculture value chain, as well as financial institutions active in the sector. DWS is acting as an investment advisor to AATIF. For more information,
visit www.aatif.lu.

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