British International Investment
Last updated on 15 Mar 2024
Key facts
UK's development finance institution focusing on businesses in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
PUBLIC
1948
Credit rating (sovereign) (Fitch)
AA-
Foreign currency
Authorizations and exposure
FY 2022 exposure top sectors
Infrastructure
30%
Financial services
27%
ICT
11%
Health
10%
Food and agriculture
8%
FY 2022 exposure
Products
- Amount: GBP 10-250 million
- Senior loans for corporates and financial institutions
- Subordinated tier II debt
- Risk-sharing facilities
- Project finance
- Trade finance
- Amount: GBP 10-250 million
- Direct investment, significant minority investments
- Follow-on investments
- Amounts: Up to GBP 150 million
- SME, mid-cap, and large-cap private equity funds
- Private equity funds
- Sector funds
- Risk-sharing facilities
- Venture capital
Policies
- Working in Africa, Asia, the Indo-Pacific, and the Caribbean
- Impact Framework: Consistent way to articulate impact, and it provides a lens to assess expected impact, and monitor it over time
- Impact specialisms across ESG, gender, climate change, business integrity and other key areas
- Portfolios and facilities:
- Catalyst portfolio
- Growth portfolio
- Kinetic portfolio
- BII Plus (technical assistance and support facility)
News
- 2023: BII launching a gender bonds toolkit to advance gender equality and investments in African capital markets
