Partnering with development finance institutions to facilitate economic growth

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Partnering with development finance institutions to facilitate economic growth

Our perspective Mobilising private capital

To address the challenges of today in a sustainable, resilient and effective way, governments and development finance institutions (DFIs) increasingly leverage the insurance sector's risk appetite and expertise.

How we can help

  • Risk transfer

    Swiss Re has the goals of building resilience, facilitating economic growth and supporting trade and investments through (re)insurance. We do this by absorbing various risks that ultimately prevent the investments required for large projects.​

  • Strategic partnership

    Our collaboration with DFIs goes back over 15 years, starting in the credit and political risks insurance markets and latterly via risk analytics and solutions.​

  • Knowledge transfer

    Bringing our deep technical underwriting expertise and broad experience with both short and long tenor risk, to support the financing of the most impactful investments by the DFIs.​

Thought leaders in action Partner reflections

A discussion on how reinsurers can support DFIs with Ethiopis Tafara from the World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).

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Reinsurance and DFIs The role of reinsurers in mobilising private capital

On the back of such a consistently strong collaboration and deep mutual understanding, Swiss Re has moved from a project by project to a facility approach, enabling more efficiency in our engagements and speed of execution. That is a key driver for faster capital deployment - we understand that and want to be supportive.

  • 15 trillion
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    By 2040, it is estimated that the infrastructure financing gap is nearly USD 15 trillion, to support the needs of a growing population.
  • Swiss Re first collaborated with DFIs in the credit and political risks insurance markets and more recently via risk analytics and solutions. We will continue to bring Swiss Re's deep technical underwriting expertise and broad experience with both short- and long-tenor risk, to support the financing of the most impactful investments by the DFIs.

Case studies

Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program (MCPP)

Mobilisation of private capital to boost real sector investments

IFC signed a USD 3 billion credit insurance policy with 14 global insurance companies under its Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program (MCPP) to support investments in real sector projects, create jobs and drive sustainable economic growth in emerging markets. Swiss Re is one of the major participants. The programme, MCPP Real Sector, leverages the risk-bearing capacity of leading insurers to enhance IFC’s ability to invest globally in real sectors such as energy, transport, telecom, media and technology, metals and mining, water and waste management, manufacturing, agribusiness & forestry, health, education, life sciences, tourism, retail, construction and real estate. 

Learn more about the MCPP Real Sector programme.

Horn of Africa: Livestock protection

Strengthening the resilience of pastoralists against more frequent droughts

An exemplar of public-private partnerships, mobilising private capital to support the project’s goals. DRIVE could not succeed in isolation, especially given the challenges posed by adapting to a changing and unstable climate, because building resilience requires broad cooperation and strategic collaboration. In this case with the World Bank, Zep Re and Women's World Banking.

Learn more about this project.

Nepal: Parametric earthquake coverage

Enabling infrastructure investment with an innovative risk transfer solution

De-risking the investment in renewable energy for a country exposed to earthquake risk and power shortages, in collaboration with local utilities agencies and the lead lender, the International Finance Corporation, which syndicated the funding of the project.

Learn more about the Nepal earthquake cover.

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