Finance – advice – support
Main focus: our customers
We finance, advise and support enterprises and financial services providers that operate in developing markets. Our customers come from developing and emerging-market countries as well as from Germany and other industrialised nations. They want to open up new markets, invest in green-field initiatives, are planning investments in expansion, or propose to set up subsidiaries or joint ventures.
The financing and advisory services we offer are tailored to our customers’ needs and can be flexibly adapted. In discussion with our customers, we devise appropriate, viable solutions for each of them.
Good advice right from the start
Even before an investment has been made, we are able to provide businesses with specific advice and support. To that end, we co-finance, for example feasibility studies, environmental studies or market analyses.
German and local SMEs with an innovative business model that are willing to invest in developing countries receive the funding they need for their further development via our “Up-scaling” programme.
Measures with development impact by companies already established in the market or start-ups operating in developing countries can be co-financed on a pro-rata basis through the develoPPP programme using funds of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Ensuring long-term business success
Entrepreneurial initiative often involves particular challenges, especially in developing markets. Companies that partner with DEG can benefit from our in-depth expertise. Additionally we help our customers boost their business performance and enhance the development impact of their projects with our Business Support Services (BSS).
Our BSS products are directed especially at enterprises that are aiming at transformation and intend to make their business model resilient. BSS operate in the fields of environmental and social governance, efficient resource and energy management, corporate governance, risk management, as well as staff and supplier training.
Far-sighted financing
Our customers receive long-term finance from us in the form of loans, mezzanine capital and equity investments. Finance can also be arranged in local currencies such as Brazilian real, Indian rupees and South African rand. Our financing products feature flexible structuring and collateralisation appropriate to the risk level.
We involve additional finance providers if necessary, and we can also arrange large volumes in cooperation with other investors. As an anchor investor, we also invest in sustainability-linked bonds issued by established companies and banks in developing markets.
Our customers can rely on our in-depth market knowledge, our expertise in impact and climate change, our global network and our continuous commitment. We will be at their side throughout the lifetime of their investment – including more difficult times. And even if conditions change rapidly, we will find solutions that help to secure the success of the enterprise and create a foundation for further investments. Because from experience, we know that change occurs again and again – and how to handle it successfully.