Hedging currency risks in frontier markets.
Guarantees for Development
Scaling up finance for essential household products.
Stabilising interbank frontier markets.
Financial instruments for forest protection and sustainable agriculture.
Our incubator initiative, JoDEA, nurtures the development of initiatives focused on addressing the most pressing risks within local financial markets.
Our diverse network of over 30 trusted partners allows us to deliver the greatest impact, accelerating the flow of solutions and capital into 60+ frontier economies.
“Cardano Development’s unique selling point is that they gear towards structuring a finance solution – seed to market and continue to support with technical assistance. JoDEA identifies a need and then innovates into that need as opposed to thinking about a deal to be done.”
Alice Chapple
“At Cardano Development we brave the challenges of doing business in frontier markets. We combine our passion and expertise in risk management to develop new products and unlock new markets. Especially in areas where it has never been done before, our products make a difference and we have shown we can make things work.”
Joost Zuidberg
“Cardano Development combines an immensely entrepreneurial culture with a drive to deliver highly innovative and scalable financial risk management solutions that empower frontier economies. The connections and skills of our people to bring ideas from concept to reality are proven to have real world impact on local currency financing and financial market development. That is something our team is very proud of.”
Theo KockenOur capital and assets under management is predominantly sourced from development finance institutions. Our investors range from multilateral development banks to pension funds and other institutional investors.
