非洲领先的多边贸易风险保险商ATIDI首席执行官向路透社透露，该机构正寻求向合作伙伴筹集约5亿美元资金，以支持因中东冲突面临成本上涨的国家。
非洲贸易与投资发展保险机构（ATIDI）在2月下旬美以对伊朗发动空袭之前，就已经在寻求扩大其近10亿美元的原始资本。那次军事行动引发的战争可能会推高全球通胀水平。ATIDI首席执行官曼努埃尔·摩西表示，中东危机使资本补充问题变得刻不容缓。
摩西在采访中称：“需求增长速度已经超过了我们现有资产负债表的吸收能力。基于现状，我们可能需要将资本金规模提升至15亿美元左右。”
寻求设立紧急融资机制
此外，摩西表示希望建立一个约10亿美元的独立融资机制，以帮助机构在未来面对类似紧急情况时能更迅速地做出反应。他指出，贸易流中断导致的能源和其他商品价格上涨，意味着成员国正在寻求将贸易融资限额平均提高20%，以支付更昂贵的进口物资。
随着以特朗普领导下的美国为首的发达国家缩减开发援助，对ATIDI提供的担保和保险需求进一步增加。摩西虽未透露潜在捐助者的具体名单，但表示在本周华盛顿举行的世界银行春季会议期间，他正与各方进行讨论。目前的现有支持者包括英国、印度、意大利和日本。
他强调，ATIDI的任何资本重组都应成为针对中东危机影响的更广泛系统性反应的一部分。“各机构已经在询问应对措施，我们希望成为解决方案的一部分。这并非我们能孤立应对的事情，必须是系统层面的响应。”
Africa’s leading multilateral insurer of trade risk is seeking around $500 million in capital from partners to support countries that face higher costs as a result of conflict in the Middle East, its chief executive told Reuters.
African Trade & Investment Development Insurance was seeking to increase its existing capital base of close to $1 billion even before U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran at the end of February unleashed a war that is likely to increase inflation across the globe.
Its CEO Manuel Moses told Reuters the Middle Eastern crisis had made the problem urgent.
“Demand is coming faster than we can absorb with our current balance sheet,” Moses said in an interview. “Given what is happening now, we probably need to take that to about $1.5 billion.”
Also Seeks Facility for Any Future Emergencies
In addition, Moses said he was keen to set up a separate financing facility of around $1 billion to help it respond more quickly to similar situations in the future.
He said higher prices for energy and other commodities caused by disruption to trade flows meant member countries were seeking to increase their trade finance limits by an average of 20% to help cover more expensive imports.
Demand for the guarantees and insurance ATIDI provides had already increased as richer countries, led by the United States under U.S. President Donald Trump, have scaled back development aid.
Moses did not name potential donors, but said he was holding discussions with them as countries gather in Washington this week for the World Bank’s Spring Meetings. Existing backers include Britain, India, Italy and Japan.
He said any recapitalization of ATIDI should be part of a broader system response to the impact of the Middle Eastern crisis.
“The institutions are already asking what the response should be, and we want to be part of that solution,” Moses said. “This is not something we can respond to in isolation – it has to be a system‑level response.”
Underlining the broader economic value of supporting the insurer, he said each dollar in capital is leveraged around 10 times and has supported $93 billion in trade and investment since the insurer was founded in 2001 and $10 billion a year over the last five years.
(Reporting by Simon Jessop; editing by Barbara Lewis)
