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AFD’s Board of Directors approved the 2025 funding program on January 30th , setting the target at €9 billion.
- Agence Française de Développement Group’s 2025 Funding Program set at €9 billion
- AFD issued €7.97 billion in medium- and long-term bonds in 2024 of which 56% was through SDG bonds
- All AFD's new taps are now immediately fungible
In an effort to support and accelerate the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world, AFD will continue to finance its lending activity. These new issues will also contribute to bond repayments over the year.
AFD will execute these transactions under its EMTN (Euro Medium Term Note) program, which is currently €70 billion.
In 2024, AFD issued a total of €7.97 billion through eighteen issues. These trades were carried out over five public transactions:
- Two bonds in euros: a ten-year bond of €2bn and a €400mn tap of the January 2034 issuance.
- Two bonds in US dollars: a five-year bond of $2bn and a three-year bond of $2bn.
- One bond in British pound: a long three-year bond of £350mn.
Among all of its transactions, 56% was funded through SDG bonds, including the two public USD bonds mentioned above.
With these transactions, AFD demonstrated its ability to provide liquidity to its investors and to become a frequent actor on the SDG bond market.
During 2024, AFD updated the Group’s SDG bond framework (available here). New issuances labelled SDG are now carried out within the new Framework.
AFD also updated its Prospectus (available here) in December 2024. With this update, Group’s bonds are now Reg S category 1, allowing immediate fungibility of new taps.
What to expect for 2025?
In line with its commitments to the market, and pending conditions and investors’ requirements, Agence Française de Développement Group will issue in the medium and long term at least two euros benchmarks and one or two US dollars benchmarks.
AFD has already issued the equivalent of €2.97bn through a €2bn benchmark with a ten-year maturity and a $1bn benchmark with a five-year maturity. Moreover, AFD commits to issue above 50% of its 2025 funding program through SDG bonds.
As in previous years, Agence Française de Développement Group will adapt to investor demand. Issuance of taps and Floating Rate Notes either under public or private formats will be subject to demand. AFD will also endeavour to meet the liquidity needs of investors, within the limit of a maximum of 2 billion per issue.
AFD will continue to explore opportunities for private placements, both in euros and in other currencies, including local currencies. In 2024, AFD issued private placements in Australian dollar (AUD), Dominican pesos (DOP) and Turkish lira (TRY).
AFD has also a Neu CP program (available here) with an outstanding up to €8bn. Used to adjust its treasury position, its average outstanding in 2024 was €1.44bn.
- Investor relations: _AFD_Funding@afd.fr
- See more: https://www.afd.fr/en/investors-page
- SDG bonds Framework: https://www.afd.fr/en/ressources/updated-sdg-bond-issuance-framework-afd