Overview of Caisse des Dépôts

Presentation of the Banque des Territoires

The French territories are developing and transforming to meet new challenges. Caisse des Dépôts is changing accordingly and has brought together its internal expertise for the territories into a single structure: Banque des Territoires. On 4 June 2019, Olivier Sichel, Caisse des Dépôts' deputy CEO presented 'CDC Banque des Territoires' where he addressed the territorial divide within France.

Banque des Territoires is a directorate of Caisse des Dépôts, a public institution. It brings together all operational directorates acting to promote territories and relies on a network of 35 bodies, including 16 regional directorates. Using a strong functional link, it also brings together Scet and CDC Habitat, two subsidiaries that it fully owns, and which contribute towards assisting territorial stakeholders with engineering and with advice in particular, as well as with housing development.

Energy and green transition, digital, mobility, social economy, social housing : French Caisse Des Dépôts strengthens its ability to provide advice and finance strategic territorial projects with local authorities. A trusted and long-term partner, Banque des Territoires assists stakeholders from all territories in the development and the rolling out of innovative, bold and ambitious future projects, to benefit all populations. Particular attention is given to small local authorities and territories in difficulty.

Banque des Territoires is focused on its ambition to ensure better service to its clients and to further develop the societal utility of its missions.

SIH is managing 3 Funds with EUR 900 million assets under management and provides advisory services:

• NDF II: Improves access to financing for projects and institutions that are active in the following areas:
- Transport infrastructure (direct investment)
- Energy efficiency (through financial intermediaries)
- Waste management (through financial intermediaries)
- Social economy (direct investment + through financial intermediaries)
- SMEs (direct investment + through financial intermediaries)

• NDF I: financial instruments have a recoverable form and are implemented through financial intermediaries. Funding is provided by means of the following financial instruments:
- venture capital instruments
- portfolio guarantees
- portfolio loans

The main objective of the daughter company ‘Slovak Asset Management Company’ is to manage state assets in order to mobilise domestic and foreign private co-investors and international financial institutions.

SIH is a partner of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in the implementation of the Investment Plan for Europe. The aim of this partnership is to provide information to public and private institutions in Slovakia regarding the financial and advisory services of the EIB that are offered under EFSI (European Fund for Strategic Investments) and EIAH (European Investment Advisory Hub).