Eastern & Southern African Trade and Development Bank

Established in 1985, the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) is a multilateral, treaty-based, investment-grade development financial institution, with assets of USD 6.7bn. The Bank’s mandate is to finance and foster trade, regional economic integration and sustainable development through trade finance and project and infrastructure finance.

The Bank provides bespoke bilateral and syndicated short and long-term financial solutions in numerous sectors to sovereign, financial institution, and corporate clients, including SMEs, from the region. This includes direct financing via senior and mezzanine debt, equity, guarantees, export credit financing as well as a range of non-financial products such as advisory, asset management and agency services.

The consistent delivery of triple bottom line development impact alongside attractive financial returns has enabled TDB to position itself as a trusted partner to intermediate global and regional capital into the region it serves. TDB has a public-private equity capital structure with 44 sovereign and institutional shareholders, including pension funds, insurance companies and development finance institutions. The Bank mobilizes debt funding from multilateral and bilateral banks, commercial banks, and investors from across the globe — through capital market issuances, long and short-term lines of credit, risk-sharing agreements, co-financing arrangements, and export credit financing.

The Bank is firmly committed to sustainability principles and well-aligned via its robust ESG framework with the Sustainable Development Goals, the African Union’s Agenda 2063, and the Paris Agreement.

TDB has principal offices in Mauritius and Burundi, regional offices in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia, and DR Congo.