Blended Knowledge by GuarantCo: Recent Episodes
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This podcast series focuses on topics that are critical to help build local capital markets in Africa and Asia, with the aim to create a significant impact on people’s lives through innovative, long-term local currency credit solutions to support infrastructure projects.
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Secondary markets are a vital part of bridging the infrastructure funding gap in emerging and frontier markets. Bond instruments often lock investors in for many years, but secondary markets add a layer of flexibility. By making it easier for market participants to buy and sell loans or bonds, we can ensure that money flows better to where it’s most needed.
In this episode we find out how secondary opportunities within capital markets deepen the pool of market participants, and how they have been implemented in a variety of projects. We learn about securitisations, an additional market mechanism used to enhance secondary market liquidity. And we find out why you can’t say you’ve fully developed a capital market until you’ve generated secondary liquidity.
Your hosts are Marjolein van Kampen and Hector Santos, and on the podcast are:
- Layth Al-Falaki, CEO GuarantCo
- Jonathan Neo, Associate Director GuarantCo
- Bryan Woon, Head of Structuring and Distribution, Bayfront Infrastructure
- Ala Ahmad, CEO MetLife Bangladesh
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New and innovative infrastructure projects take a long time to get off the ground, often 2 years or more. But with the pace of development required to improve the lives of people across Africa and Asia, those timescales aren’t feasible. So how do we provide this much-needed, sustainable infrastructure faster?
Replicability is the key. In this episode we explore how replicating an infrastructure deal can save time and increase trust and buy-in for future transactions. We learn about the many different ways a project can be replicated. And we hear the successes of companies that have partnered with and replicated deals alongside GuarantCo.
Your hosts are Marjolein van Kampen and Mo Massoud, and on the podcast are:
- Layth Al-Falaki, CEO GuarantCo
- Pierre Marouby, CEO GreenYellow Indian Ocean
Edward Kirathe, Founder and CEO Acorn Holdings
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Institutional investors are essential to closing the infrastructure funding gap. But right now they contribute a tiny fraction of financing to infrastructure projects in low- and middle-income countries. So how do we change that? In this episode we explore how blended finance structures and guarantees can unlock this financing gap.
Your hosts are Marjolein van Kampen and Lucinda O’Gorman, and on the podcast are:
- Nishant Kumar, Managing Director Asia, GuarantCo
- Anh Nguyen, Client Relationship Manager, GuarantCo
- Sophie Gaze, Senior Analyst, GuarantCo
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Using innovative credit solutions has been in GuarantCo’s DNA since closing its first transaction in 2005. As we continue to pioneer, we are helping to boost capital market capabilities and accelerate much needed development impact for the people who need it most. This episode focuses on the range of innovative and well-established credit solutions GuarantCo provides and hear from the companies that are utilising them to create impact locally.
Your hosts are Marjolein van Kampen and James Miller and on the podcast are:
- Hugo Duhil de Benaze, Director Structured Finance Group Sub-Saharan Africa at Société Générale
- Surabhi Mathur Visser, Chief Investment Officer at GuarantCo
- Kwame Asare, Client Relationship Manager at GuarantCo
- Raphael de Muizon, Client Relationship Manager at GuarantCo
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Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen impressive and rapid growth in Vietnam’s local currency corporate bond market, with much more potential still to be unlocked. Thanks to a number of catalytic and first-of-its-kind transactions, GuarantCo’s contribution to the growth of the bond market is helping to accelerate infrastructure development in the country. And in this episode, we learn about a number of those impactful transactions.
Your hosts are Marjolein van Kampen and Anh Nguyen, and on the podcast are:
- Ngoc Tran, Group Chief Executive Officer, Nam Long Investment Corporation
- Canh Anh Nguyen, Head of Treasury, EVNFinance
- Nishant Kumar, Managing Director Asia, GuarantCo
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Local currency bonds are fast becoming a crucial way of supporting infrastructure project development in lower income countries across Africa and Asia. In this episode, we discuss the rapid growth of the bond market, why it’s become such an attractive option, and how bonds address the funding deficit in lower income countries. We also hear from PRAN Agro and Acorn Holdings, two companies that have benefited from bonds issued by GuarantCo.
Contributing to the podcast are:
Uzma Chowdhury, Corporate Finance Director at PRAN Agro
Raghav Gandhi, Managing Director at Acorn Holdings
Layth Al-Falaki, Chief Executive Officer at GuarantCo
Phil Skinner, Managing Director, Global Execution Team at GuarantCo
Angella Olobo, Associate Director, Global Execution Team at GuarantCo
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Given the scale of the infrastructure funding gap throughout Africa and Asia, it will take a variety of synergistic solutions to sustainably address this funding shortfall. One such solution, that could hasten the closing of this gap quicker than any other, is the increased use of guarantees to support infrastructure project financing. Due to the flexibility of guarantee products, the range of solutions they provide and the long-term benefits that stem from guarantee use, guarantee providers could be in a unique position to unlock much-needed infrastructure project financing.
Contributing to the podcast are: Layth Al-Falaki, CEO GuarantCo; Emily Bushby, COO/CFO GuarantCo; Jules Samain, MD Africa GuarantCo and Nishant Kumar, MD Asia GuarantCo
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According to the Africa Development Bank, Africa’s infrastructure requirements range between USD 130 and USD 170 billion with an infrastructure funding gap of USD 68 to USD 108 billion. These figures demonstrate the critical need to provide essential infrastructure to local people to ensure long-term economic growth. At the core of this issue is the lack of technical capabilities which GuarantCo, supported by PIDG Technical Assistance funding, is addressing by organising capacity building workshops across Africa. In this episode we hear from stakeholders, partners and participants of the events who explore the transformational impact of capacity building.
Contributing to the podcast are: Edith Jiya, CEO Old Mutual Malawi; Mark Mikwamba, Managing Director Old Mutual Investment Group; Esnat Suleman, Head of Treasury and Investment Banking FDH Bank; Andrew Mbunda, Principal Relationship Manager at CRDB Bank; Jules Samain, MD Africa GuarantCo and Sarah Siliya, Business Development Manager Africa GuarantCo.
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The need for sustainable infrastructure in Vietnam is rapidly growing. Whilst the conditions are ripe for the growth of green and climate instruments in the country, local stakeholders continue to have reservations about its necessity. In July 2021, GuarantCo, through the PIDG Institute, organised a two-day virtual Vietnam green capital market capability building event, funded by PIDG TA and facilitated by Climate Bonds Initiative to address the concerns and demystify this new proposition.
Contributing to the podcast are: Nishant Kumar, MD Asia at GuarantCo; Joywin Mathew, Partner Capital Markets and Structured Investments at DLA Piper; Marika Stocker, Senior Manager of Sustainable Finance Solutions at Sustainalytics; Cedric Rimaud, ASEAN Programme Manager at Climate Bonds Initiative; and Marco Serena, Head of Sustainable Development Impact at PIDG.
When GuarantCo can't directly fill a gap in an emerging market, it teams up with PIDG Technical Assistance to provide a grant to a company that can. By bridging these gaps and supporting new local champions, grant funding makes a real, tangible difference to people's lives, and helps to improve essential infrastructure in lower income countries in Africa. A powerful example showcasing the impact of grant funding is GuarantCo’s and PIDG TA’s new partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, who have teamed up to provide funding to Acre Impact Capital. This podcast includes contributions from: Angela Silva, grants and compliance manager at GuarantCo, Emilio Cattaneo, head of PIDG Technical Assistance and Hussein Sefian, founder and managing partner at Acre Impact Capital.
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Infrastructure development is a crucial driver of economic growth, job creation, and poverty alleviation across Africa and Asia. But infrastructure projects in lower income countries are experiencing a growing funding gap from both public and private sources, estimated to be around 1.3 trillion dollars per year, according to the World Bank. So that’s why partnerships between the two sectors are essential. Blended finance is doing just that and is playing an increasingly important role in tackling these challenges. GuarantCo has built and nurtured many strategic partnerships over the past 15 years, and in this episode we showcase just how valuable the right partnerships are in effecting change.
Contributing to the podcast are: Denesh Srishanker, investment director at GuarantCo; Ibukun Adebayo, co-head emerging markets of the London Stock Exchange Group; Sujithav Sarangi, executive director, structured export finance at Standard Chartered Bank; Neema Siwingwa, chief co-financing and syndications officer of the African Development Bank Group; Helge Muenkel, managing director, head of Asia Pacific, sustainable finance & global capital markets at ING; Evans Osano, director, capital markets from FSD Africa; and Lade Araba, managing director from Convergence Blended Finance Africa.
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This episode features the role of the Nigerian Infrastructure Credit Enhancement Facility (InfraCredit) in supporting the development of local capital markets. GuarantCo and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) established InfraCredit in 2017 to act as a market champion for the development of the local debt capital markets to mobilise long-term investment from local institutional investors and finance infrastructure projects in Nigeria in local currency.
Contributing to the podcast are: Uche Orji, Managing Director and CEO of the NSIA; Wale Okunrinboye, Head of Investment Research Sigma Pensions; Chinua Azukike, CEO InfraCredit Nigeria; Eniola Lawal, Development Impact Officer InfraCredit Nigeria and Lasitha Perera, CEO GuarantCo.
Recorded December 2020.
This episode explores how enabling local currency credit solutions addresses the infrastructure financing gap. Any solution promoting long-term local currency financing needs to prioritise capacity building across local capital markets. This is crucial to solve the largely unaddressed challenges of tenor and local currency provider risk appetite.
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This episode explores how blended finance can support the development of local capital markets in lower income countries. Specialised blending facilities, such as GuarantCo, support the reduction of local currency risks for infrastructure projects, help crowd in private sector investors and develop local capital markets in Africa and Asia.
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