Author Bio
Fabio Fagundes
Chief Products Officer
Fabio Jose Fagundes has led Financial Products & Services since IDB Invest’s inception, especially the investment strategy of Blended Finance, DCM & Structured Finance, Equity and Mezzanine, Resource Mobilization & Asset Sharing and Trade & Supply Chain Finance. He has enhanced our development impact with more than 50 financial solutions driving product innovation by bringing over 30 years of experience in global financial markets having worked in Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain and in the USA. Prior to IDB Invest, he was the Global Head of Trade Asset Mobilization at Santander Headquarters. Fabio is a dual citizen of Brazil and the United Kingdom and holds an EMBA from TRIUM, an alliance of NYU Stern, LSE and HEC, and an MBA in Finance from IBMEC (Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets).
Posts by Fabio Fagundes
Mobilizing Private Capital for Sustainable Infrastructure
Climate-related investments needed in the region through the end of the decade stand at between $470 billion and $1.3 trillion. Governments are unable to fund such amounts, so they are increasingly turning to the private sector to raise capital and relieve the pressure.
Building Sustainable Value Chains to Ensure Sustainable Growth
Covid-19 disruptions, aggravated by the ongoing environmental crisis, have put value chains in the international spotlight, drawing public and private sector’s attention to the need of stronger value chain security and a stronger focus on sustainability. ESG performance has become a central part of this discussion, as the world strives to building more secure and sustainable value chains.
How to Support SMEs Joining Global Trade and Value Chains
The incorporation of emerging market SMEs into global trade and value chains brings important benefits and opportunities for the economic development of countries and companies.