Year	Entity	Activity
1997	Bank of China	Bank of China Zambia Branch was set up as the first Chinese financial institution in Africa
2008	ICBC	Bought a 20% stake in Standard Bank South Africa for $5.4 billion.
2010	Bank of China	Establishment of the Bank of China Johannesburg Branch.
2011	Central Bank of Nigeria	Announcement to convert 5% - 10% of its foreign exchange reserves from $ into RMB
2012	Central Banks of Nigeria and Tanzania	Bought 3-year dim sum bonds worth RMB 500 million, along with other 3-year bonds worth RMB 1.5 billion and 20-year bonds worth RMB 1 billion.
2013	Central Banks of South Africa and China	The agreement that enabled Standard Bank South Africa to invest about USD 1.5 billion in China’s inter-bank bond market.
2014	China and the Republic of Congo	The governments of China and the Republic of Congo establish the Sino-Congolese Ban for Africa as a joint venture.
2015	ICBC	Bought another 60% stake in Standard Bank South Africa.
2015	Central banks of South Africa and China	Signature of a 3-year bilateral swap agreement for the exchange of local currencies of up to RMB 30 billion.
2015	People’s Bank of China	Bank of China Johannesburg Branch appointed as the first RMB clearing house in Africa.
2015	China Commercial Bank	Launch of trail operations in Tanzania as the first Chinese owned private bank in Africa.
2015	People’s Bank of China	Bank of China Zambia Branch appointed as a second RMB clearing house in Africa
2015	ICBC and South African Reserve Bank	Signature of a bond corporation agreement which entrusted ICBC to issue bonds worth 10 billion ZAR, to finance the process of industrialization and infrastructure construction in South Africa.
2015	Central Bank of Zimbabwe	Announcement to approve RMB as legal currency for public domestic transactions.
2016	Bank of China	Acquisition of banking license from the Central Bank of Mauritius for setting up the Bank of China Mauritius Branch.
By late March 2016	ICBC	ICBC had loaned about $15.6 billion to 58 China-Africa cooperation programs in over 20 African countries.
2016	Central Banks of China and Morocco	The signing of a 3-year bilateral swap agreement for the exchange of local currencies of up to RMB 10 billion.