Antananarivo, Madagascar
Abbreviation
MEX
Location
Antananarivo, Madagascar
Region
Africa
Product Types
Agricultural, Metals, Energy
The Mercantile Exchange of Madagascar (MEX) is a commodity exchange based in Antananarivo, Madagascar, facilitating trading of agricultural commodities, metals, and energy products. Madagascar is a key producer of vanilla (responsible for ~80% of global vanilla supply), cloves, and other tropical agricultural exports. MEX provides a domestic trading platform supporting Madagascar's agricultural and natural resource sectors, offering price-discovery services for both local producers and international buyers.
The Tanzania Mercantile Exchange (TMX) is a commodity exchange based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, providing trading infrastructure for agricultural commodities and solid minerals. Tanzania is a significant producer of coffee, tea, cashews, sisal, and gold, and TMX serves as a domestic price-discovery mechanism for these key export commodities. The exchange supports Tanzania's Vision 2025 agricultural development goals by reducing market inefficiencies and connecting smallholder producers to domestic and export buyers.
The Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE), founded in 2004 and headquartered in Lilongwe, Malawi, pioneered electronic commodity exchange infrastructure for southern Africa. ACE facilitates transparent spot trading for maize, soybean, groundnuts (peanuts), and other staple crops using a warehouse receipt system that enables smallholder farmers to access competitive prices and agricultural finance. ACE's electronic trading model has been replicated across sub-Saharan Africa as a model for commoditising smallholder agricultural production.
The Egyptian Commodities Exchange (EGYCOMEX) is a Cairo-based commodity exchange regulated by the Egyptian Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA). EGYCOMEX provides trading infrastructure for agricultural commodities (wheat, cotton, rice), energy products, and precious metals within Egypt's market. Egypt is one of Africa's largest wheat importers and a significant agricultural producer, and EGYCOMEX serves as a domestic price-discovery mechanism to reduce dependence on international benchmark volatility.
Bourse Africa (formerly Global Board of Trade, GBOT), established in 2010 in Mauritius, was designed to be Africa's first multi-asset international exchange, offering trading in metals, foreign exchange, and other financial instruments. Headquartered in the Ebene Cyber City financial district, Bourse Africa aimed to leverage Mauritius's position as an African financial hub to provide access to commodity and forex derivatives for African and international participants.