国际投资公司计划在未来五年向非洲一些风险最高的市场部署约22.5亿英镑（30亿美元），进入全球最大机构投资者基本上无法触及的经济体。
International Investment plans to deploy about £2.25 billion ($3 billion) in some of Africa’s riskiest markets over the next five years, stepping into economies that are largely beyond the reach of the world’s biggest institutional investors.
这一承诺相当于英国国际投资公司计划在非洲投资的90亿英镑的四分之一，是这家英国发展金融机构2026-31年战略的一部分。首席执行官莱斯利·马斯多普表示，公司计划与当地合作伙伴合作，深化金融市场，并解决阻碍资本进入企业和基础设施的障碍。
The commitment, equivalent to a quarter of BII’s planned £9 billion of investment in Africa, is part of the UK development-finance institution’s 2026-31 strategy. It plans to work with local partners to deepen financial markets and tackle barriers that keep capital from reaching businesses and infrastructure, Chief Executive Officer Leslie Maasdorp said.
马斯多普表示，许多非洲国家的评级至少比投资级低四档或更多，还有一些国家没有评级，这使得它们不在保诚集团、贝莱德和布鲁克菲尔德资产管理公司等机构的投资标准之内。
A long list of African countries are rated at least four notches or more below investment grade, while others are unrated, putting them outside the investment criteria of institutions including Prudential Plc, BlackRock Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., Maasdorp said.
他说：“我们非常现实，也认识到我们不可能让贝莱德来投资布隆迪或刚果民主共和国。所以在非洲，我们有强烈的动力去做我们所说的国内资源动员。”这位首席执行官表示，公司正将英国国际投资公司计划对非洲投资的25%专门用于前沿市场和最不发达国家。
“We are very realistic and recognize that we’re not going to get BlackRock to come and invest in Burundi or in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” he said. “So in Africa, we have got a strong drive to do what we call domestic resource mobilization” and are earmarking 25% of BII’s planned African investment for frontier markets and least-developed countries, the CEO said.
他说：“这关乎对风险最高市场的持续承诺，有很多国家属于这一类。事实上，相对而言，我们在低收入国家和前沿市场的投资在发展金融机构中属于敞口最高的之一。”根据其最新战略，英国国际投资公司将提供50亿英镑，并从合作伙伴处再动员40亿英镑，主要投资于非洲大陆的电力项目、港口、铁路和数字基础设施，如通信塔和数据中心。包括非洲以外国家的总投资目标为150亿英镑。
“It’s about a continued commitment to the riskiest markets and there’s a lot of countries that fall in that bucket,” he said. “We in fact have one of the highest exposures in relative terms amongst the DFIs in terms of our investment in low-income countries and frontier markets.”Under its latest strategy, BII will provide £5 billion and mobilize another £4 billion from partners to invest primarily in power projects, ports, railways and digital infrastructure such as telecommunications towers and data centers, on the continent. The total investment target, including nations beyond Africa, is £15 billion.
英国国际投资公司（BII）东非区域总监西玛·达纳尼表示，发展金融机构（DFI）还将向银行提供资金以扩大金融普惠，并向制造业提供资金，主要用于电动出行。
The DFI will also provide funding to banks to broaden financial inclusion and to the manufacturing industry primarily for e-mobility, said Seema Dhanani, BII’s regional director for East Africa.
“金融服务是我们当前投资组合中非常重要的一部分，我认为这一趋势将持续下去，”她说。“银行为我们提供了规模，也为我们提供了触达范围，但我们能够真正量身定制交易，以覆盖市场的目标行业。因此，中小企业、农业、女性拥有的企业，以及气候金融。”
“Financial services is a really big part of our current portfolio and I see that continuing going forward,” she said. “Banks give us scale and they also give us reach, but we’re able to really tailor the transactions to hit target sectors of the market. So SMEs, agriculture, women-owned businesses, as well as climate finance.”