Citi eyes 10% increase in social finance funding in Asia

Over $2b in social finance transactions were raised in Asia in 2024.

Citi expects social finance funding in Asia to increase by 10% in 2025.

Such types of financings include social trade loans, securitizations, co-financing partnerships with development agencies, term loans, and revolving working capital facilities, as well as initial public offerings (IPOs).

"The pipeline is across markets, products, and different sectors. We are also seeing increasing investor demand for access to invest in social finance, and it is increasingly becoming a key asset class," said Jorge Rubio Nava, Global Head of Social Finance at Citi.

Citi’s social finance transactions raised over US$2b across Asia. The bank also led 76 transactions in APAC across 9 countries— Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

In total, Citi mobilized over $2.4b funds, over 50% of the bank's total transactions and more than 40% of total funds, making it the largest region globally for Citi for social finance financings.

These transactions included areas across microfinance, food security and sustainable agriculture systems, healthcare, education, infrastructure and digital connectivity, and affordable housing for underserved and low-income communities.

Nava expressed confidence that Citi can grow even further in 2025.

Follow the link s for more news on

Citi

Citibank

Citigroup

A NOTE FROM SINGAPORE BUSINESS REVIEW

Reaching the people who run Asia's businesses is harder than it used to be.

Inboxes are crowded. Attention is short. The executives you most want to reach — the founders, CFOs, and operators who actually move budgets — are the hardest to find through the usual channels. If you're building a company, a category, or a reputation, you already know this.

We've spent twenty years building the room they read. Singapore Business Review is where senior decision makers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia come for business coverage they can't get elsewhere — in print, online, and in person at the summits and roundtables we host across seven markets.

If you have something these readers should know about — a point of view worth publishing, a product worth their attention, an event worth their time — we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.

Book a meeting

| Or download the media kit (PDF)

240,000 senior readers quarterly in print Top 1,700 Singapore companies reached

7 markets across Southeast Asia