Emerging markets hold enormous potential for growth, but too often these opportunities are sidelined because they fall below investment grade. This creates a global financing gap, where essential infrastructure, corporate expansion, and development projects remain underfunded despite strong fundamentals.

Verdant Rock is closing that gap. As a specialized financial guarantee platform, it transforms sub-investment grade projects into institutional-quality opportunities. By combining rigorous underwriting, sector expertise, and regional market access, Verdant Rock unlocks institutional capital for impactful projects across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

Verdant Rock’s Value Proposition

Transforming Sub-Investment Grade Assets

In emerging markets, many projects generate stable cash flows but are constrained by sovereign ceilings or structural risks. Verdant Rock provides financial guarantees that elevate these projects to investment-grade status, making them accessible to global institutional investors.

Unlocking Institutional Capital

Through guarantees, Verdant Rock bridges the gap between promising but underserved opportunities and the trillions of dollars in global institutional capital seeking stable, long-term returns.

How Verdant Rock’s Guarantee Process Works

Origination

Verdant Rock identifies high-quality opportunities by leveraging a trusted network of financial advisors, DFIs, and regional partners. This origination strategy ensures access to transactions with strong fundamentals and local support.

Underwriting

The underwriting process applies institutional standards, including ESG screening, risk scoring, stress testing, and Investment Committee approval. This multi-stage due diligence ensures every transaction meets strict credit and structural criteria.

Guarantee Structuring

Each guarantee is carefully designed to balance risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and investor preferences. This structured approach creates transparency and confidence for both issuers and investors.

Issuance and Distribution

Verdant Rock works with global capital markets and institutional distribution networks to place guaranteed transactions, ensuring broad investor participation.

Supported Financial Instruments

Structured Notes

  • Asset-backed securities (ABS)
  • Mortgage-backed securities (MBS)
  • Securitized SME loan portfolios

These structures enable fragmented or sub-investment grade assets to be packaged into investment-grade securities.

Direct Lending and Loans

  • Bilateral and syndicated loans
  • Development finance and blended structures
  • Long-tenor project finance loans

Guarantees in these categories expand access to capital for infrastructure, corporates, and sovereign-linked borrowers.

Geographic Coverage

Asia-Pacific

Priority markets include Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Mongolia. These countries are experiencing rapid infrastructure growth and supportive capital market frameworks.

Africa

Key markets include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa, where infrastructure financing needs remain acute, particularly in energy, transport, and urban development.

Latin America

Target markets include Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Chile. With large infrastructure gaps and strong investor appetite, Verdant Rock provides the credit bridge needed for investment-grade access.

Eastern Europe

Opportunities in Albania, Kosovo, and Greece reflect growing demand for renewable energy, transport modernization, and municipal infrastructure.

Focus Sectors for Financial Guarantees

Infrastructure and Utilities

Energy generation, grid upgrades, transportation networks, and water and sanitation projects are core targets. These long-term, predictable cash flows backed by public contracts are highly attractive to institutional investors.

Sub-Sovereign and Municipal Finance

Local governments and municipalities are critical in delivering essential services. Verdant Rock’s guarantees enable these issuers to access credit markets for urban transport, energy efficiency, schools, and hospitals.

High-Quality Corporates

Corporates with strong operating track records, government-linked revenues, and stable cash flows are eligible. Verdant Rock helps these entities access longer tenors and lower borrowing costs.

Financial Institutions and Intermediaries

Local and regional banks, non-bank intermediaries, and structured lending platforms benefit from guarantees that enhance capital efficiency and extend maturity profiles.

ESG Integration in Every Project

Environmental

Verdant Rock prioritizes projects that advance renewable energy, climate resilience, and resource efficiency while mitigating environmental risks.

Social

Financial guarantees enable projects that create jobs, expand access to essential services, and support community development across emerging economies.

Governance

Every transaction adheres to international best practices, emphasizing transparency, anti-corruption, and institutional-quality oversight.

Why Verdant Rock’s Model Matters

Closing the Global Capital Gap

Emerging markets face an annual infrastructure investment shortfall of up to $1.7 trillion. By enhancing creditworthiness, Verdant Rock mobilizes multiples of private capital for each guarantee deployed, multiplying development impact.

Aligning Risk and Reward

Guarantees provide investors with investment-grade risk profiles while issuers gain affordable access to long-term capital. This alignment fuels sustainable growth in underfunded markets.

Building Resilient Portfolios

Diversification across regions, sectors, and counterparties ensures Verdant Rock maintains balance and resilience in its guarantee portfolio.

Looking Ahead: Verdant Rock’s Growth Strategy

Verdant Rock is targeting $10 billion in guarantees over the next three years, with a pipeline of 50–100 transactions. Each deal strengthens its credibility, expands its partner network, and accelerates access to capital for transformative projects.

Future growth will include expanding regional presence, deepening partnerships with DFIs and sovereign sponsors, and broadening sector coverage to include emerging themes such as digital infrastructure and climate adaptation.

Conclusion

Verdant Rock represents a new chapter in emerging market finance. By combining institutional rigor with local expertise, it offers a platform where financial guarantees unlock capital for sustainable development. From renewable energy projects in Africa to transport infrastructure in Latin America, Verdant Rock provides the missing link that allows institutional investors to participate confidently in high-impact opportunities.

For governments, corporates, and financial institutions across emerging markets, Verdant Rock is not just a guarantor—it is a catalyst for growth, resilience, and transformation.