Consulting
Sapience provides Climate and ESG/vanilla capital market consulting and advisory services to development finance institutions in Africa, Asia and emerging Europe.
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Coming into our fourth year we have been delivering technical investment and development finance banking experience to our governmental, banking and institutional client-base.​
Expertise
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Debt Capital Markets
Sapience undertakes capital market diagnostics, research and stakeholder engagement as part of its project work.
Specialising in Emerging and Frontier market development projects Sapience delivers awareness, banking industry expertise + proven market knowledge.
Projects include work for the Asian Development Bank, the European Commission and the International Finance Corporation.
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Local Currency and Capital Market Development
Local capital market development is a long term and uneven process. Sapience is acutely aware of the challenges of keeping market reforms and initiatives on the agenda given the many competing priorities.
Stakeholder respect and engagement is key to success in these endeavours. Sapience has assisted both the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB 2022-23) and the African Development Bank (AfDB 2024-25) in building their local currency franchises.
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Since 2023 Sapience has engaged with think-tanks such as ODI Global to anchor research in the realities of local market development (an upcoming paper in Q12025).
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ESG and Climate Finance
We know that ESG and Climate finance needs to continue to scale. Sapience actively consults and teaches in these fields.
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Projects include Climate Finance in Egypt (IFC 2022) under the 30x30 programme, Green bond assessment in Rwanda (Euro Comm 2024) and Green Bond consulting project across several countries in SE Asia (ADB 2024-25) to support sovereign municipal issuers.
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