Gemcorp's Felipe Berliner Talks African Infrastructure Capital in Reuters Feature
24 July 2026
<p data-renderer-start-pos="84" data-pasted="true">Gemcorp Capital co-founder Felipe Berliner was featured in Reuters, discussing the scale of private capital available for African infrastructure - provided projects can secure the credit ratings institutional investors require.</p><p data-renderer-start-pos="313">Berliner pointed to the appetite among insurance companies specifically, noting that with access to highly rated infrastructure projects, they would readily deploy tens of billions of dollars. As he put it, "We're talking very material sums."</p><p data-renderer-start-pos="557">The article situates his comments within a broader shift across African development finance, as institutions explore tools like debt guarantees to help projects reach investment grade and unlock domestic and international capital at scale.</p><p data-renderer-start-pos="798" data-pasted="true">Read the full Reuters feature here: <a title="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/african-banks-bet-debt-guarantees-lure-private-capital-infrastructure-projects-2026-07-23/" data-renderer-mark="true" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/african-banks-bet-debt-guarantees-lure-private-capital-infrastructure-projects-2026-07-23/" data-is-router-link="false" class="_ymio1r31 _ypr0glyw _zcxs1o36 _mizu194a _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu18uv _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _ect4ttxp _2rkolb4i _syaz13af _1a3b18uv _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj13af _9oik18uv _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l313af _1nrm18uv _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h12zz _10531ra0 _1ien1ra0 _n0fx1ra0 _1vhv17z1" data-testid="link-with-safety">African banks bet on debt guarantees to lure private capital to infrastructure projects | Reuters</a></p>