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Investors and techniques are ready for development banks to scale up securitization rapidly
AfDB hopes to launch multi-issuer securitization this year
Deal liberates capital and tempts investors to take new frontier market risk
At London investor day, supranational reveals deals and plans for new funding and investments, including fully African project financing
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African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has for the first time turned exclusively to the Korean banking market to sign a $150m club loan. -
China’s O-film Tech is tapping offshore lenders for the first time for a $100m term loan, hitting the market amid escalating tensions between the US and China.
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HSBC Securities Services has appointed two global co-heads — one of them a well-known figure in the debt capital markets.
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The African Development Bank has become the first supranational bank to use a securitization sold to private investors to free up balance sheet capacity. The deal, four years in the making, demonstrates a new technique that could expand development banks’ firepower to promote development.
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The African Development Bank’s $1bn synthetic securitization is not its first risk transfer transaction, and will not be its last. The bank has marked itself out as a leader in this sphere, though the effort to get such techniques to work is also highly collaborative.
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The European Commission has unveiled a portfolio of financial guarantee transactions it is doing to support development in Africa and regions bordering the EU. Among them are two programmes conducted by the African Development Bank, including its new synthetic securitisation.
