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🎉 DEG and European Union pave the way for further mobilization of private capital for Africa and other emerging markets: 🤝 Today, representatives of European Union, Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) and DEG agreed on DEG’s first guarantee program with the European Union under the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus #EFSD+ to enable a global #FundofFunds at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference. 💚 This signing marks a key step for DEG in its ongoing efforts to foster #SustainableGrowth through private investment. The new investment vehicle will be designed to unlock new capital flows into regions like Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and further emerging markets, where investment needs are high but often underserved by private investors. 🙏 Many thanks to EU Comissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen and to Parliamentary State Secretary at Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) Niels Annen, also Chair of DEG’s Supervisory Board, for your support and for joining DEG’s CEO Roland Siller and member of DEG’s management board Monika Beck for the signing, today. #TeamEurope #teamdeginvest

🌟 Last week in Singapore: It was a great pleasure to welcome many clients, stakeholders and partners to our event “Expanding Strategic Horizons” at the beautiful venue “Glassroom” of the National Gallery Singapore! 🌇 Singapore has become a major financial center and offers diverse financing opportunities across sectors in the whole Asian region. Therefore, we at DEG Singapore Office have expanded our product range since 2024 to offer financing solutions in form of equity, loans, bonds and mezzanine financing across sectors. Our focus is to strengthen the cooperation with trusted partners from the MFI and DFI world, commercial banks, infrastructure players and corporates in Singapore to explore investment opportunities in the South East Asian region! 🌍 We celebrated this strategic realignment on 1st October. 🎤 The event with around 100 guests started with an inspiring panel discussion on “Corporate Resilience”. Monika Beck, Member of the DEG Management Board, together with Sharon Tay, CEO of Keppel Asia Infrastructure Fund, and Amit Anand, Founding Partner and Managing Director of Jungle Ventures, discussed the key factors that will assure corporate resilience in the future. The panel was moderated by Thorben Loeppke, DEG Head of Industries & Services, Debt, Asia. Key Takeaways: 💡        Access to long-term financing 💡        Availability of Affordable and Green Energy 💡        Availability of Talents and Qualification were named among most crucial factors for corporate resilience. To help implement these factors, DEG is available as a development financier for clients that are seeking solutions beyond long-term finance and want to embrace the transformation. 🚀 Afterwards, all participants had the opportunity to network and make new contacts over drinks and a flying buffet. 🍹We very much enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere and interesting discussions! Thank you for that special evening. A big thank you to everyone who supported this event: Monika Beck, Sharon Tay, Amit Anand, Gudrun Busch, Benjamin Brink, Marina Dietz, Petra Kotte, Thorben Loeppke, Max Neuerbourg, Markus Bracht, Gabener Christina, Philip Petit, Puree Tantivirasut, Dr. Felix Schneider 🙏

„Expaning strategic horizons“ was the motto of DEGs reception on the occasion to the formal welcome of DEGs new Singapore Office Director Nageda (Nadja) Kolesinski. Singpore beeing the gateway to South Asias 650 million person-market, is a dynamic center for tranformation. Together with our panelist, Sharon Tay, CEO KAIF, Keppel (Infrastructure Division) and Amit Anand, Founding Partner and Managing Director of Jungle Ventures and the audience we discussed #corporate #resilience in challenging environments. Access to: 🎯 longterm financing 🎯reliable, green energy 🎯qualified staff 🎯digitalisation/automatisation were defined as key terms. DEG is commited to contribute by offering long term debt/equity and business support services. Wishing Nadja and the enlarged Team: Marina Dietz, Mark Lim, Carol Tang, Max Neuerbourg, a good time.

"We have to meet private institutional investors where they are, not where we want them to be." 💡   Interesting statement from Roland Siller, CEO of DEG, that opened his reflections on mobilizing private sector capital at the EDFI Management Company Crossroads Conference in Brussels with partners from the European Union.   What resonated with me the most was his emphasis on two critical solutions:   ✅ Increasing flexibility from the public sector and development finance institutions ✅ Having an appropriate level of control and increasing trust in DFI partners (i.e. asset managers or entrepreneurs) These factors often create significant delays—sometimes years—during the contracting phase between public institutions and the private sector, hindering progress, action and impact !   Thank you, Roland Siller for your wise insights and to Marina Pannekeet Sophie van den Ende Mateo Mohorovic Katrin Lueke Bart Coenegrachts Juliette Billy Saurabh Marda Carsten Jung Marine Berthier-Barthel for the engaging discussions. responsAbility Investments AG #climatefinance #impactinvesting

DEG has recently signed a loan agreement with Sonargaon Seeds Crushing Mills Ltd. (SSCML) - a concern of Meghna Group from Bangladesh to finance a long term loan of USD 25.5 million. SSCML produces soya meal (raw materials for animal feed) and edible oil. The purpose of the loan is to provide long-term USD working capital financing for the company to enable it to reduce its USD denominated sourcing risks in a tight Forex environment. This will help improving SSCML’s overall capital structure. A part of the loan will also finance Capex for a packaging facility in the factory. DEG will additionally support SSCML to develop and implement an advanced environmental and social management system. Through this financing DEG contributes to the food security of the country as the company caters for 25% of the consumed edible oil and 45% of raw materials for animal feed of Bangladesh. #DEG

Go, #TeamEurope! Today, key implementing partners of the European Union’s European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus #EFSD+ got together to pave the way for even stronger cooperation for the global #SustainableDevelopmentGoals. Together with the other European DFIs - EDFIs, DEG has signed important new risk-sharing instruments with the EU under the umbrella of EFSD+: ▶️ The guarantee on carbon sinks aims at mobilising 4 billion euros of forestry sector and other nature-based climate investments in developing and emerging countries that help absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. This is an essential part in global efforts to curb #globalwarming and mitigate #climatechange. ▶️ The #MSME Platform Plus is a 255 million euros top-up to the existing MSME Platform to further enhance the lending capacity of EDFIs and their co-investors to local financial intermediaries which in turn are lending to MSMEs. With the help of the EFSD+ guarantee instrument, we are bringing private investors on board for future investments in high-risk countries where the money is really needed. Thank you to EU for your trust and partnership! It was great to have you, Koen DOENS, marjeta jager, Antti Karhunen, Kay Parplies, Mathieu Bousquet and other colleagues from the European Commission with us. #impactinvesting #GlobalGateway #fin4dev

⚡DEG is proud to contribute to affordable and clean energy #SDG7! 💚 With the electricity produced from renewable sources our customers supply about 32 million people, thereby preventing 22 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. 🎉 A big thank you to our customers for the great cooperation in achieving these goals and congratulations to all DEG colleagues who were involved in the corresponding deals.   #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #ParisAgreement #fin4dev #teamdeginvest 

Our success as one of the leading development banks in the world is largely based on the tireless commitment of our employees in our offices worldwide.   🌍 Representing our international business KfW #Development Bank, DEG, and KfW IPEX-Bank, approximately 400 people in over 70 countries give KfW a face and a voice. With local expertise and an understanding of the cultural and economic conditions on the ground, they contribute to: • Building bridges 🌉 • Strengthening relationships 🙌🏾 • Leading projects to success 🎯   Their contributions are indispensable and highly valued by both colleagues in Germany and by all of us in the management board of KfW.   During the 25th #anniversary of our office in #Nairobi, I had the opportunity to wish the new directors of DEG’s and Development Bank’s representative offices success and thank their predecessors during the handover ceremony. 👉 Antje Steiner, after 5 years in Nairobi, will now bring her international project and management experience to new tasks at DEG in Cologne. 👉 Oskar von Maltzan has completed two terms abroad for KfW Development Bank. 👉 Florian Rabe has been working with a focus on the Horn of Africa and continues to work for the region from Frankfurt.   They will be succeeded by Barbara von Toll for DEG, as well as Kristina Laarmann and Henrike Klau-Panhans for the Development Bank. I wish them and all our colleagues abroad all the best in continuing the important work in our offices abroad.   #teamkfw #international #thankyou #onebank

🌧️ Regen? Für das DEG-Team kein Hindernis ! Dieses Jahr haben so viele KollegInnen der DEG an dem Lauf-Event #B2Run in #Köln teilgenommen, dass wir Platz 3 🏆 der fittesten Unternehmen Kölns belegen! Ich bin stolz & dankbar, wie stark unser Zusammenhalt ist – nicht nur im Büro, sondern auch bei sportlichen Herausforderungen. Das ist es, was die DEG besonders macht: Gemeinsam überwinden wir jedes Hindernis, ob beruflich oder beim Laufen! Ein herzliches Dankeschön an alle, die dabei waren und diesen Lauf zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis gemacht haben. Ihr seid großartig! 🏃♂️ 🏆 🍾 #B2Run #TeamSpirit #Zusammenhalt #DEG #OneTeam #WeAreDEG

Pakistan on road to recovery. Last week IMF approved a USD 7 billion loan to support Pakistan economy. Highly welcomed by the fifth largest country (by number of population) with a geopolitical key role. Some days before IWF‘s approval I had the pleasure to visit about 12 private companies as well as public and private partners together with our Regional Director Benjamin Brink. I left deeply impressed by the professionalism and resilience of local private sector companies, providing excellent results even under economic stress and weak public governance. DEG