Co-operative Bank Ltd. (MIGA-1404)

Regions
  • East Asia and Pacific
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Myanmar
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Proposed
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
FI
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Jun 1, 2015
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Investment Type(s)
Guarantee
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 14.30 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Campaign Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ MIGA website

Updated in EWS Jun 29, 2024

Disclosed by Bank Mar 17, 2015

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Project Description
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The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.(BTMU) of Japan has applied for a MIGA guarantee of up to $14.3 million for a period of up to six years against the risks of transfer restriction, expropriation, and war and civil disturbance. The non-shareholder loan being provided by BTMU will finance the expansion of CB Bank in Myanmar. BTMU entered into strategic alliance with CB Bank in December 2012 and will provide the loan to increase lending to small and medium enterprises SMEs


This project involves MIGA coverage of a non-shareholder to CB Bank to be used for onlending to SME clients. CB Bank's portfolio is largely short-term corporate loan and short-term exposure to SMEs mainly in trade and wholesale (over 70 percent). The environmental and social risks and impacts associated with the portfolio are considered few in number, generally site-specific, largely reversible, and readily addressed through mitigation measures. The project is a category FI-2 under MIGA’s Policy on Environmental and Social Sustainability. CB Bank will be required to screen projects against MIGA’s Exclusion List, national environmental and social laws and regulations, and MIGA’s Performance Standards for corporate portfolio.

Investor Country: Japan

Investment Description
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Financial Intermediary
A financial intermediary is a bank or financial institution that receives funds from a development bank. A financial intermediary then lends these funds to their clients (private actors) in the form of loans, bonds, guarantees and equity shares. Financial intermediaries include insurance, pension and equity funds. The direct financial relationship is between the development bank and the financial intermediary.
Private Actors Description
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MUFG Bank, Ltd. (The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ or BTMU) is the largest bank in Japan and key operating bank of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, one of the world's largest and most diversified financial groups. BTMU's services include commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, leasing and many more fields of financial services.

Co-operative Bank Ltd. (CB Bank) currently operates 76 branches and has plans to expand to 200 branches nationwide within the next three to five years in Myanmar.


Contact Information
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GUARANTEE HOLDER

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.

2nd Floor, Union Financial Centre, Corner of Maharbandoola Road and Thein Phyu Road, Bohtataung Township, Yangon, Republic of the Union of Myanmar

TEL: 95-1-861-0371
FAX: 95-1-861-0384

 

IMPLEMENTOR

Co-operative Bank Ltd.

Head Office

Phone : (95-1) 231 7999 (Weekdays: 9:30am to 4:30pm)

Fax     : ‎‎(95-1) 231 7979 (Weekdays: 9:30am to 4:30pm)

 

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF MIGA

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