EBRD and EU Improve Sustainable Financing for Amen Financial institution

• EBRD and EU to offer first mortgage to Amen Financial institution below Inexperienced Economic system Financing Facility in Tunisia
• €10 million senior unsecured mortgage to advertise inexperienced lending to Tunisian personal sector
• EU-funded technical cooperation bundle and funding incentives to speed up the uptake of climate-resilient applied sciences

The European Financial institution for Reconstruction and Improvement (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) have signed a €10 million senior unsecured mortgage to Amen Financial institution, considered one of Tunisia’s main personal banks.

This mortgage settlement is the primary signed below the EBRD’s Inexperienced Economic system Financing Facility in Tunisia. The brand new financing will allow Amen Financial institution to on-lend to the Tunisian personal sector, together with micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), and can promote equal entry for men and women to inexperienced finance. The framework goals to contribute to the inexperienced financial system transition by scaling up financing for low-carbon, climate-resilient applied sciences and companies.

The ability will likely be supported by a complete technical cooperation bundle funded by the EBRD and EU to help Amen Financial institution in mission preparation, implementation, verification and monitoring. The bundle will even help coaching and capacity-building actions for Amen Financial institution’s employees that promote equal entry to local weather finance for men and women.

Underneath this facility, the EU will present funding incentive grants on profitable completion and verification of inexperienced investments. The grants purpose to speed up the adoption by eligible MSMEs of superior local weather applied sciences.

The brand new financing can be supported by the Foreign money Change Fund (TCX), a facility backed by the EU that contributes to the expansion of monetary markets in creating economies and offers international change hedging at diminished pricing to Tunisian banks.

Amen Financial institution is a joint-stock firm with a share capital of 174,600,000 Tunisian dinars, 66.44 per cent owned by the Amen Group, one of many main personal monetary establishments in Tunisia and recognised for its dedication to innovation, efficiency and long-term shopper help. Amen Financial institution was ranked because the sixth-largest financial institution in Tunisia in June 2025, with a market share of 8.5 per cent when it comes to excellent deposits and excellent loans.

Because the begin of its operations in Tunisia in 2012, the EBRD has invested €2.9 billion in 83 tasks throughout the nation, 66 per cent of that are within the personal sector.