Sovereign Solutions

Stronghold solutions can finance targeted investments & activities for sovereign states while providing access to global capital markets at terms otherwise unavailable.

Access to Global Capital markets

Where countries have restricted access to global capital markets, Stronghold solutions can enable a country to “sovereign  brand” Stronghold-designed bonds and thereby issue economically defeased instruments carrying a principal and interest obligation guarantee at rates and maturities otherwise beyond a country’s current reach.

The sovereign state can receive the investment from the designated Program as cash in exchange for a dedicated annuity or cash flow. The funds can finance disclosed public or public/private initiatives.  

Applications

Stronghold solutions can additionally address a wide range of sovereign interests including:

• Maturity extension,

• Credit enhancement,

• Debt refinancing,

• Central bank investment (stakeholder capitalism),

• Bank deposit insurance,

• Parametric catastrophe insurance,

• State Owned Enterprise financing and/or recapitalization,

• Long term (up to 30 year) financing at highly competitive fixed rates, and

• Public/private project financing.

Capital Market Access

Stronghold solutions expand access to capital.  Candidates to purchase Stronghold-designed bonds include:

• Development agencies,

• In-country institutional investors,

• International institutional investors,

• Holders of international offset obligations due to a sovereign.

For in-country institutional investors, Stronghold-designed instruments can provide principal guarantees in USD and returns in local currencies.  This solution design provides an inherent currency hedge attractive for in-country institutions.

For, holders of international offset obligations due to the sovereign, Stronghold solutions provide the only alternative to fulfill offset obligations without reducing the obligation holder’s balance sheet.

Stronghold solutions enable those already committed to investment to do more and more investors across the globe to participate.  

Stronghold works closely with sovereign states to educate and develop investors to finance state objectives.