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.
Platforms, portals and AI solutions delivered for the bank and its initiatives.
Portals, business platforms and multilingual institutional websites.
LLMs, AI agents and document analysis in production.
Official and exclusive PAPSS integrator in North Africa.
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.
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.
Platforms and portals
The digital presence of the bank and its initiatives, designed for international audiences.
Data and artificial intelligence
Centralized data and AI models that support real decisions.
AI agents and LLMs in production.
No demos: agents, LLMs and NLP pipelines that serve the bank’s teams every day.
SCRIBE
A supervised multi-agent proof of concept that pulls data from the bank’s systems and drafts credit documents.
CRECO
A platform that gives credit analysts sourced, verifiable answers from credit memos and committee minutes.
Fine-tuned Llama 3
An open-source model trained on the bank’s internal data, deployed securely and under its control.
Loan agreement reading
AI that automatically extracts and structures clauses, conditions and covenants from loan agreements.
Sentiment index
A data lake fed by more than 100 web and social sources, analyzed continuously by NLP pipelines.
Customer 360
An AI agent connected to the systems through the MCP protocol that assembles the customer view on demand.
The bank's business platforms.
KYC, payments, governance, risk, training: critical platforms designed, built and run by STEPS.
KYC and due diligence
A single repository of KYC data on African entities, with validation workflows and data versioning.
Swift GPI
End-to-end tracking of international payments: status, delays, fees and intermediary banks.
AFRACAD
The LMS of the bank’s academy for its African clients, with learning paths, certificates and a built-in AI assistant.
EXCO
The executive committee voting application: quorum, confidentiality, traceability and an AI copilot for document analysis.
Enterprise Risk Management
Identification, scoring, mapping, action plans and reporting of the bank’s risks.
AFTDI Databank
The platform of African economic and trade indicators, with a conversational assistant and AI reports.
PAPSS integration
The pan-African payment portal validated by PAPSS, in production at Tunisian banks.
Customer portal
Digital onboarding, KYC, statements and complaints: self-service banking.
Corporate website
The redesign of the bank’s website for its 30th anniversary: more than 300 pages on a headless architecture.
The standards of an international institution.
Scoping
We start from the institution’s business goals and constraints: audiences, languages, security, governance and timeline.
Design
Journeys, mockups and prototypes validated with business teams before a single line of code.
Development
Regular, tested and documented releases, with full visibility on progress.
Run and evolution
Maintenance, enhancements and new modules, with the same team over time.
A stable team
A fully permanent team that knows your systems and stays with you from one project to the next.
Multilingual and secure
Websites and platforms built for international audiences, with the security requirements of a financial institution.
For any organization
This expertise also serves companies in every sector that want to digitize their processes and adopt AI.
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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.