About This Episode

With a funding gap in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, Asia faces a clear imperative to leverage and mainstream blended finance.

This powerful financial tool can be applied across different structures, geographies, and sectors. By efficiently using concessional capital, we recalibrate risks and returns, allowing the private sector to finance underserved markets while achieving commercially viable profits.

Nandini Chaudhury, Principal, Head of South and Southeast Asia, CrossBoundary Group, explains what blended finance means in today’s markets, and how it can be implemented at scale to attract commercial capital.