annual and interim reports

Potential risks and opportunities

Below is an overview of the challenges, risks and opportunities we see in the short to medium term. The risks that could impact our strategic objectives and reputation relate to our business model, ESG, regulatory compliance and strategy execution.

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Our investment process

Before and during the investment period, we research the financing opportunity and assess its impact on the environment, employees and workers, communities and other stakeholders.

Know Your Customer

As a development finance institution (DFI), FMO runs the risk of becoming involved in money laundering or financing terrorism, and financing sanctioned entities or customers with a bad reputation.

Environmental, social and governance standards

Environmental, social (including human rights), and governance (ESG) standards are an integral part of our investment process and serve several goals.

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How we apply our investment process

Our investment process consists of the following stages. Through case studies we illustrate how ESG is an integral part of this process.

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Lessons learned

FMO conducts evaluations, reviews and other activities to learn from past investments, help us achieve our impact goals with our customers and ensure accountability to our stakeholders.

Our strategy

In the past few years, global developments and changing stakeholder expectations and regulations have affected FMO’s impact agenda such that we felt the need to review our ambitions and strategic priorities towards 2030. Our Strategy towards 2030: Pioneer - Develop - Scale, derives its name from our progression model. It shows our long-term commitment to companies, supporting them from an initial high-risk phase to the point where commercial investors can (partially) take over from FMO.

Performance against our strategy

In September 2022, FMO launched its updated 2030 strategy. We monitor our results through a set of performance metrics, which allow us to define, steer and track success toward our strategic objectives.

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Factors impacting our portfolio

Travel restrictions, economic uncertainties, and efforts to adjust operations to new regulations hampered our ability to pursue investment opportunities in 2020 and 2021 and to develop our pipeline. This affected our investment results in 2022.

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Contributions towards the SDGs

In line with our strategy, we aim to maximize our impact toward the sectors and SDGs we are most able to influence through our activities. Our contributions are further explained in the following sections.

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