IDB Invest, a multilateral issuer with an annual issuance volume of 2.5 to 3.0 billion dollars a year, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary as a bond issuer. The bank is rated Aa1/AA+/AAA (Moody’s/S&P/Fitch).

Since its first bond issuance in year 2012, IDB Invest has issued 32 bonds in seven currencies for a total of 9.3 billion dollars, with maturities ranging from two to twenty years. This includes more than 500 million dollars in bonds issued in the local capital markets of Latin America and the Caribbean and 3.7 billion dollars in green, social and sustainability bonds.

During 2021, IDB Invest launched its Sustainable Debt Framework with a 1 billion dollars sustainability bond, the first gender bond from a supranational issuer in the local Mexican capital markets and the first blue bond in the region. In 2018, it issued the first bond of a supranational institution in the local capital market of Paraguay.

To date, the funds raised have financed more than 650 sustainable development projects with more than 15.8 billion dollars disbursed.