The African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) is Africa’s multilateral trade and investment insurer. ATI was founded in 2001 by African countries to encourage more inward investments by providing insurance against trade and investment risks. ATI does this by removing the perceived and real investment, political and credit risks that are linked to many transactions.

Specifically, ATI covers risks such as expropriation, non-payment by governments, state-owned companies and & corporates, non-honouring of sovereign and sub-sovereign obligations, currency inconvertibility and embargoes, to mention a few.

ATI currently insures trade and investments worth over USD8 billion per year. ATI’s partners and clients include African Governments, lenders, traders (both domestic & international), project developers and insurers.

For over a decade, ATI has maintained an ‘A/Stable’ rating for Financial Strength and Counterparty Credit by Standard & Poor’s, and in 2019, ATI obtained an A3/Stable rating from Moody’s, which in 2023 was revised to  A3/Positive.