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Equity Financing Product
DBSA provides equity financing to support projects sponsored by historically disadvantaged individuals, including B-BBEE and women-owned entities, which often lack sufficient equity contributions to participate meaningfully in infrastructure projects.
Equity financing product to facilitate B-BBEE and women-owned entities
Reference
https://www.dbsa.org/index.php/solutions/financing
Non-ECA Cover Investment
DBSA invests in the uncovered portion of Export Credit Agency-backed transactions, helping to encourage the financial closure of the commercial tranche of infrastructure projects.
Non-ECA cover – DBSA will invest into the uncovered portion of an Export Credit Agency-backed transaction, to encourage the financial closure of the commercial tranche of the transaction.
Apply for Funding
The Development Bank of Southern Africa offers funding opportunities for infrastructure projects in key sectors such as water and sanitation, information and communications technology, energy, transport, logistics, health, education, housing, and critical minerals. Applicants can access loan financing and bespoke financial products designed to support socio-economic inclusivity and address market failures.
Apply for Funding
Credit Enhancement (with DFIs and MDBs)
DBSA may provide credit enhancement on a competitive basis to support infrastructure projects, particularly when working with other Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).
Credit enhancement (only if competitive) with other DFIs and MDBs First risk loss / subordinated
Loans Syndication
DBSA offers a syndicated loans product to manage credit risk and support clients needing large-scale infrastructure financing, especially when individual banks are unwilling to fund entire debt tranches.
Loans Syndication Infrastructure projects require significant capital investments and given the limited risk appetite amongst individual banks to fund an entire debt tranche, DBSA has developed a syndicated loans product to manage credit risk while supporting our clients’ financing needs.
