Financial markets in Africa have evolved in recent years in terms of organization and attractiveness. Current standards of financial analysis and ratings, although relevant, remain cautious on sustainability issues. Therefore, they leave a window open for aligning investment flows and financing with new economic and financial realities. Extra-financial issues will continue to grow, and Africa needs an intermediary to assess companies and states on their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues. Byond Financials offers new financial analysis standards dedicated to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. Byond Financials is an independent ESG rating agency with a branch dedicated to macroeconomic research and forecasting. We encourage our clients to develop and implement innovative and effective sustainable investment solutions. Independence is guaranteed by avoiding potential conflicts of interest. We do not advise the companies we rate and do not engage in asset management mandates. Byond Financials also runs statistical and deep learning models for traditional forecasting and an advanced econometric "now-casting" model designed to predict the current state of the economy. This model recalculates and provides updated data as soon as new input data is published. The Now-Casting generates real-time forecasts for key economic variables such as GDP, inflation, and industrial production using publicly available data at various frequencies.