The African Development Bank (AfDB) has appointed Société Générale as lead advisor for the development and implementation of a new multi-originator integrated securitization platform.
The agreement was signed during the African Investment Forum Market Days 2025 in Rabat, Morocco on 26 November.
The securitization platform is designed as a rotating, scalable risk transfer mechanism to help development financial institutions strengthen their balance sheets, obtain regulatory capital relief, and attract private investment.
This builds on three previous transactions completed under the bank’s Room to Run initiative since 2018.
Societe Generale will lead the design and structuring of the platform and provide financial modeling and investor engagement support ahead of its launch.
The first phase is targeting a $2 billion reference portfolio that includes assets from the African Development Bank, the Southern African Development Bank, and other institutions. The portfolio is expected to cover diverse sectors, regions and risk categories.
In the long term, the platform aims to introduce harmonized issuance documentation, common credit assessment standards and a shared special purpose vehicle structure to facilitate the participation of more African and multilateral development financial institutions.
Pascal Olivier, Société Générale’s senior advisor for asset-backed solutions, said the bank is pleased to leverage its expertise in risk transfer structures to help the African Development Bank and its partners build an innovative multilateral securitization platform that can scale up sustainable finance and inclusive growth in Africa.
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Max Ndiaye, Senior Director of Syndication, Client Solutions and Africa Investment Forum at the African Development Bank, said the platform is expected to be a catalyst to unlock new financing capacity for innovative projects across the continent.
He added that this initiative is consistent with the Bank’s 10-year strategy and supports the Bank’s goal of accelerating the mobilization of private finance to Africa.
The African Development Bank Group is Africa’s leading development finance institution, with operations in 41 African countries and a subsidiary in Japan.
