--- title: "Afreximbank Partner" description: "For 5 years, STEPS has been Afreximbank's Digital Hub and AI Factory: AI agents, LLMs and business platforms (KYC, Swift GPI, AFRACAD, EXCO)." canonical: https://steps.tn/en/afreximbank-partner/ last-updated: 2026-11-10 --- # Afreximbank Partner For 5 years, STEPS has been Afreximbank's Digital Hub and AI Factory: AI agents, LLMs and business platforms (KYC, Swift GPI, AFRACAD, EXCO). URL: https://steps.tn/en/afreximbank-partner/ DIGITAL PLATFORMS & AI ENGINEERING - TUNISIA WE BUILD THE DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND AI SOLUTIONS THAT RUN YOUR BUSINESS. Since 2012, STEPS has designed, built and operated business-critical systems for banks, insurers, manufacturers and institutions across Africa, MENA and Europe. Partnership | Afreximbank ## Afreximbank's digital and AI partner. For 5 years, STEPS has supported Afreximbank, the African Export-Import Bank, as its Digital Hub and AI Factory: web platforms, data and artificial intelligence serving African trade. Digital Hub AI Factory Book my scoping session ↗ 5 years of partnership Digital Hub | AI Factory 30+ projects Platforms, portals and AI solutions delivered for the bank and its initiatives. Digital Hub Portals, business platforms and multilingual institutional websites. AI Factory LLMs, AI agents and document analysis in production. PAPSS Official and exclusive PAPSS integrator in North Africa. The essentials ## A relationship built project after project. Afreximbank finances and promotes intra-African and extra-African trade. To serve this mission for the continent's institutions, businesses and citizens, the bank relies on STEPS to design, build and evolve its digital platforms and its data and AI projects. 01 Our role ## Digital Hub and AI Factory. Two complementary practices, one team: we deliver the platforms users see, and the data and AI building blocks that make them smarter. Digital Hub ## Platforms and portals The digital presence of the bank and its initiatives, designed for international audiences. Multilingual institutional portals Business platforms and user journeys Payment and third-party integrations UX/UI design and accessibility AI Factory ## Data and artificial intelligence Centralized data and AI models that support real decisions. Fine-tuned LLMs and AI agents Natural language processing and sentiment analysis Indicators and dashboards Data lakes and real-time pipelines 02 AI Factory ## AI agents and LLMs in production. No demos: agents, LLMs and NLP pipelines that serve the bank's teams every day. AI agents ## SCRIBE A supervised multi-agent proof of concept that pulls data from the bank's systems and drafts credit documents. Multi-agents LLM RAG Agentic RAG ## CRECO A platform that gives credit analysts sourced, verifiable answers from credit memos and committee minutes. Agentic RAG LLM Sovereign LLM ## Fine-tuned Llama 3 An open-source model trained on the bank's internal data, deployed securely and under its control. Llama 3 Fine-tuning Generative AI ## Loan agreement reading AI that automatically extracts and structures clauses, conditions and covenants from loan agreements. NLP Document AI Real-time NLP ## Sentiment index A data lake fed by more than 100 web and social sources, analyzed continuously by NLP pipelines. Data lake Kafka NLP Agents and MCP ## Customer 360 An AI agent connected to the systems through the MCP protocol that assembles the customer view on demand. MCP Agentic AI R&D 03 Digital Hub ## The bank's business platforms. KYC, payments, governance, risk, training: critical platforms designed, built and run by STEPS. KYC ## KYC and due diligence A single repository of KYC data on African entities, with validation workflows and data versioning. KYC Data platform Payments ## Swift GPI End-to-end tracking of international payments: status, delays, fees and intermediary banks. Swift GPI Web Training ## AFRACAD The LMS of the bank's academy for its African clients, with learning paths, certificates and a built-in AI assistant. LMS RAG Multi-pays Governance ## EXCO The executive committee voting application: quorum, confidentiality, traceability and an AI copilot for document analysis. Workflow IA Risk ## Enterprise Risk Management Identification, scoring, mapping, action plans and reporting of the bank's risks. ERM Dashboards Data ## AFTDI Databank The platform of African economic and trade indicators, with a conversational assistant and AI reports. Data platform LLM Payments ## PAPSS integration The pan-African payment portal validated by PAPSS, in production at Tunisian banks. .NET Next.js Customer experience ## Customer portal Digital onboarding, KYC, statements and complaints: self-service banking. Portail KYC Institutional ## Corporate website The redesign of the bank's website for its 30th anniversary: more than 300 pages on a headless architecture. Headless CMS Next.js Initiative websites and portals AfrexInsure IATF AMCE PAFTRAC CANEX AATC AQAC AfSNET AFTRAF 04 Our method ## The standards of an international institution. 01 ## Scoping Scoping session We start from the institution's business goals and constraints: audiences, languages, security, governance and timeline. 02 ## Design UX and prototypes Journeys, mockups and prototypes validated with business teams before a single line of code. 03 ## Development Iterative delivery Regular, tested and documented releases, with full visibility on progress. 04 ## Run and evolution Ongoing support Maintenance, enhancements and new modules, with the same team over time. 05 Good to know Team ## A stable team A fully permanent team that knows your systems and stays with you from one project to the next. Requirements ## Multilingual and secure Websites and platforms built for international audiences, with the security requirements of a financial institution. Beyond banking ## For any organization This expertise also serves companies in every sector that want to digitize their processes and adopt AI. ## The standards of a pan-African institution, for your project. Tell us about your digital or AI project: we will tell you how we would approach it, with the same standards. Or contact us directly ↗ Book my scoping session ↗ --- Book a free scoping session: https://steps.tn/reserver-une-session-de-cadrage/ Site guide for agents: https://steps.tn/llms.txt