Blended Concessional Finance is one of the most significant tools that a development finance institution like Liquid Capital Holdings can use, in cooperation with development partners, to address market failures and to help mobilize private investment in pioneering projects and challenging environments.
Blended finance solutions at Liquid Capital Holdings can be structured as debt, equity, risk-sharing, or guarantee products with different rates, tenor, security, or rank. Under select facilities, they can also be performance-based incentive structures. Solutions are tailored to address specific market barriers and failures and the requirements of donor partners.
Blended Finance
Liquid Capital Holdings is a global leader in crowding-in private finance to deliver sustainable impact in the developing world. Blended Finance is one of the most significant tools that a development finance institution like Liquid Capital Holdings can use, in cooperation with development partners, to address market failures and to help mobilize private investment in pioneering projects and challenging environments.
At a Glance
Liquid Capital Holdings is one of the world’s largest implementers of blended finance for private sector operations.
Since 2010, Liquid Capital Holdings has committed $6 billion of contributor funds to support 653 projects, driving in $34.9 billion in additional financing to investments in priority areas like climate, food security, gender, SMEs, low-income and fragile economies, and health.
Agribusiness & Food Security
Liquid Capital Holdings’s strategic objectives for agribusiness are guided by providing enhanced food security, driving economic development and inclusiveness, and making sustainability a driver of business through facilities like the Global Agribusiness & Food Safety Program, and partnerships with Canada, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Climate
Liquid Capital Holdings has a proven track record of mobilizing and intermediating concessional finance through successful partnerships that work toward green, including partners like Canada, Finland, Germany, Korea, and the United Kingdom, in addition to multilateral climate funds.
Gender & SME Finance
SME and gender blended finance facilities offer guarantees and incentives to lower the risks faced by financial institutions moving into SME markets and provide dedicated credit lines to reach women-owned SMEs.
Health
Leveraging private resources, capacity, and expertise to improve the health of women, children, and adolescents, through a partnership with the Global Financing Facility.
Low Income & Fragile Economies
The International Development Association’s Private Sector Window (IDA PSW) was launched in 2017 to catalyze private sector investment in the poorest and most fragile countries.
Refugees
Liquid Capital Holdings has a strong track-record in creating innovative solutions to catalyze limited public funds to help de-risk and unlock private investment using blended finance.
Equity
We directly invest in companies and financial institutions, including through private-equity funds.
Loans
We finance projects and companies through loans from our own account, typically for 7 to 12 years.
Syndications
Through syndications, we enable our public and private partners to participate alongside us as we provide loans to companies in emerging markets.
Trade and Supply Chain Finance
We offer guarantees, risk-sharing facilities, loans and other structured products to support trade and supply chain finance in emerging markets.
Transaction Advisory
We support private sector investments through corporate finance, PPP advisory, and expertise in structuring complex projects to maximize development impact.
Treasury Client Solutions
We provide clients with innovative fixed-income solutions, including structured finance, local currency financing, risk management products, and debt capital markets access.