ADB focuses on projects that help promote private investments in the region that will have significant development impact and will lead to accelerated, sustainable, and inclusive growth.
ADB's Work in the Private Sector
Private Sector Operations Department: Meet Our People
Frequently Asked Questions
Through its private sector operations department, ADB helps private companies to empower communities through better jobs, higher incomes, and improved access to energy, health and education. All while ensuring profitability and commercial sustainability for its clients.
This publication presents information on the status of the public–private partnership (PPP) environment in 12 ADB member countries.
The expansion of ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD) has transformed the bank’s role in the region’s capital markets. IFR Asia, a leading capital markets magazine, interviewed PSOD Director General Mike Barrow and Director of Infrastructure Finance for East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Jackie Surtani.
ADB's Trade Finance Program fills market gaps for trade finance by providing guarantees and loans to banks to support trade. Backed by a AAA credit rating, it works with over 200 partner banks to provide companies with the financial support they need to engage in import and export activities in Asia's most challenging markets.
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Government of Mongolia, ADB Promote Private Sector Opportunities Private investment is key to Asia’s prosperity. ADB works with private sector clients to empower communities in many ways—like building the infrastructure they need, boosting farmer incomes, and delivering clean energy supplies.
Agribusiness is a potent way for countries to achieve almost all of their SDGs. ADB is working with private sector partners to have transformational impact on agribusiness in Asia and the Pacific.
Asia badly needs infrastructure, but for cash-strapped governments the key is teaming up with businesses, says an ADB publication that examines the best way of sharing risk and proposes optimal ways of financing such deals.
Learn more about ADB's project financing and donor-backed guarantees program for private sector investment in renewable energy projects in the Pacific.
Learn more about ADB's support for financing sustainable economic growth in Papua New Guinea.
ADB assists developing member country governments and private sector borrowers in securing debt financing on commercial terms for ADB projects through engagement with commercial financial institutions.
ADB's Microfinance Risk Participation and Guarantee Program is a credit enhancement program designed to address a market gap by sharing risks to promote local currency lending to microfinance institutions. Because of its risk-sharing nature, the program encourages private sector participation.
In infrastructure and project finance, ADB is focusing on energy, transport, telecommunications, water, and urban infrastructure.
ADB supports the development of financial sectors and capital markets to facilitate the mobilization of foreign and domestic capital to productive sectors of the economy.
ADB supports agribusiness projects and companies across the entire food and agriculture value chain, including farm input providers, crop and livestock producers, agri-processors, packaged food producers, storage and logistics providers, and food distributors.
Building human capital by expanding access to high quality and affordable schools and healthcare services and facilities.
ADB's nonsovereign operations comprise the provision of any loan, guarantee, equity investment, or other financing arrangement to privately held, state-owned, or subsovereign entities.
ADB offers hard currency loans, both senior and subordinated, as well as mezzanine financing. We also offer local currency loans in selective markets on a case to case basis. Interest rates and other terms vary, depending on a company's or project's needs and risks.
ADB may invest directly in an enterprise. It offers financing through equity investments, including direct equity investments in the form of common shares, preferred stock, or convertibles.
ADB provides guarantees that can be used to cover political risks, and more comprehensively, both political and credit risks.
ADB carries out preliminary fact finding on the project and the sponsors using the information provided by the sponsors.
A project team from ADB conducts due diligence on the project, including a visit to the project site, offices of the sponsors, relevant government agencies and any proposed co-financiers.
During due diligence, the ADB project team discusses and negotiates the terms and conditions of ADB assistance.
The project team prepares the appraisal report and other internal documentation, for presentation to the Investment Committee for the Final Review.
Following endorsement from the Investment Committee, the proposed ADB assistance is presented to the ADB Board of Directors.
Following Board approval, the documentation for project is finalized and signed.
This project involves a $70 million loan from ADB with $19.25 million Clean Technology Fund (CTF) concessional financing and a $20 million parallel loan funded through Leading Asia's Private Sector Infrastructure (LEAP) Fund.
ADB will provide a $62.5 million yuan loan to Inner Mongolia Saikexing Breeding and Biotechnology Group (SKX) and will act as the lender of record for the participation of selected commercial banks of up to $62.5 million equivalent in yuan.
This project involves a $500 million direct nonsovereign loan and a $500 million partial credit guarantee with a sovereign guarantee that would help the government to continue the development of one of its largest revenue-generating assets in challenging times globally for oil and gas investments.
Private Sector Operations Department
Asian Development Bank
6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City 1550, Metro Manila, Philippines
Tel +632 8632 5280
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Microfinance Risk Participation Program
Anshukant TANEJA (Mr)
Principal Investment Specialist
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More on ADB's Microfinance Program
Trade Finance Program
Trade Finance Unit
Private Sector Operations Department
Tel +632 8632 6401
Tel +632 8636 2448
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See TFP Relationship Management Team
Supply Chain Finance Program
Sunil MASCARENHAS (Mr)
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Staff from the Private Sector Operations Department discuss what drew them to this dynamic area of ADB's work, how they like living in Manila, and what they enjoy away from the office.
Shantanu CHAKRABORTY
Jackie SURTANI
Christine ENGSTROM
Janette HALL
Steven BECK
Martin LEMOINE
Sherwin PU
Aniruddha PATIL
Bart RAEMAEKERSYou may contact private sector operations focal points in specific countries by selecting a country from the dropdown
Michael BARROW
Christopher THIEME
Craig ROBERTS
Timo TEINILA
Mark KUNZER