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This summary covers a proposed investment by Citibank, N.A., Standard Chartered Bank and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, and/or any of their group holding companies, subsidiaries, or affiliates (the “Guarantee Holders”) to provide a non-shareholder loan to the State Bank of India (“SBI”), an Indian state-owned enterprise bank, to refinance US$200 million of the existing US$500 million World Bank (“IBRD”) loan to SBI for already operational Grid-connected Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic (“GRPV”) systems. The IBRD’s Grid Connected Solar Rooftop Program (P155007) was approved in 2016 (the “IBRD Loan”) and extended to the SBI. The objective of the IBRD loan was to provide funding for on-lending by SBI as part of a national program to deliver GRPV systems to commercial and industrial customers across India.??
The proposed project responds to the original report of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance issued in 2018 and the G20 Capital Adequacy Framework review, which calls multilateral development banks and MIGA to collaborate on transferring portfolio risk from MDB balance sheets with MIGA’s insurance products, and the more prominent role in which MIGA could play in supporting financial capacity within the World Bank Group. The same is further articulated in the WBG’s Statement in the Evolution Roadmap. The Project would present as the first example which embodies such concept where MIGA and IBRD are working in concert to free up lending capacity for IBRD, since IBRD is soon to reach its lending limits for India, thereby enabling IBRD to undertake new initiatives in the country.
The MIGA guarantee is requested for up to US$340.1 million of loan principal, future interest and potentially MIGA premium, for a term of up to 15 years against the risk of Non-Honoring of Financial Obligations by a State-Owned Enterprise (NHFO-SOE).?
Development Impact
The MIGA guarantee will help to mobilize private sector capital for SBI. The proposed climate finance project will enable the recycling of the sovereign guarantee for other IBRD projects in India, and lead to potential savings for SBI. As a first-time transaction replacing an IBRD loan with international private capital mobilized with MIGA’s guarantee, a positive demonstration effect for international commercial banks to participate in similar transactions in India (or other countries) is expected. The proposed project is consistent with India’s Country Partnership Framework FY18-22, extended by the 2023 Performance and Learning Review to end-December 2024, in which MIGA’s credit enhancement guarantees for mobilizing private capital and meeting the borrowing requirements of state-owned enterprises for infrastructure projects are explicitly mentioned. |
