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  • Multilateral development banks hit record $137 billion in climate finance to drive sustainable development worldwide

    09 September 2025

    New report shows climate finance by multilateral development banks rose 10% in 2024, compared with previous year. MDBs’ climate finance for low- and middle-income economies increased 14% to more than $85 billion. Mobilised private finance for climate investments worldwide jumped 33% in 2024.

  • Joint report confirms strength of MDBs’ financial positions and unique contribution to advancing international development

    04 September 2025

    This Multilateral Development Banks Comparison Report 2025 is a joint MBD-initiative to enhance transparency and comparability of their financial positions. It offers a clear picture of how MDBs as a group provide a powerful platform to multiply the impact of shareholder capital for the global community and are uniquely positioned to contribute to the international development agenda.

  • Noviti Finance and the Council of Europe Development Bank sign a €10 million financing agreement

    02 September 2025
  • CEB supports inclusive urban development in Bosnia and Herzegovina with €12 million loan for Mostar Cultural and Sports Centre

    22 July 2025

    CEB supports inclusive urban development in Bosnia and Herzegovina with €12 million loan for Mostar Cultural and Sports Centre.

  • With €200 million to support IDPs, Ukraine and the CEB sign their largest loan agreement since the start of the war

    11 July 2025

    The CEB €200 million loan will support the Ukraine Government’s assistance programme, which provides essential accommodation and subsistence to 1.2 million displaced people across the country.

  • Ukraine and the CEB sign €100 million agreement to provide compensation for destroyed housing

    11 July 2025

    This additional loan will support approximately 3 000 more families in 2025 to purchase new housing, including apartments, private houses, or invest in newly constructed homes.

  • Statement by Governor Monticelli at Ukraine Recovery Conference (Rome, 10 July 2025)

    10 July 2025

    At URC2025 in Rome, the CEB reaffirms its unwavering support for Ukraine’s recovery.

  • Investing in human lives: SHIFA celebrates inauguration of renovated emergency unit at Ankara Training and Research Hospital

    09 July 2025

    A newly-renovated emergency unit at Ankara Training and Research Hospital was inaugurated today under the Strengthening Healthcare Infrastructure for All (SHIFA) Project, a €140 million European Union-funded initiative to improve healthcare access for refugees, persons under subsidiary protection, and host communities across Türkiye.

  • CEB and Žilina Self-Governing Region sign €30 million for strategic social investment

    09 July 2025

    Over the next three years, the funds will be used to co-finance strategic projects in the areas of education, healthcare, social services, transport, and sports infrastructure. The investments will improve public services and contribute to more efficient regional budget management.

  • NRW.BANK and CEB sign additional loan to finance accommodation for refugees

    04 July 2025

    The funds will be available to municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia at favourable rates for the acquisition, construction and modernisation of accommodation for refugees, notably from Ukraine.

  • CEB and EBRD sign agreement to streamline co-financing and boost impact

    30 June 2025

    The Mutual Reliance Agreement sets out a framework for collaboration in procurement, specifically for public sector projects co-financed by the CEB and EBRD outside the EU. It allows for the designation of a Lead Financier—responsible for procurement oversight—based on mutual recognition of each institution’s policies and procedures.

  • Statement to FFD4 on Financing Education for Development

    30 June 2025

    Representatives of governments, public development banks, philanthropic organizations, international institutions, civil society, and the business sector reaffirm collective commitment to education as a foundation of sustainable development.

  • Heads of Multilateral Development Banks commit to strong joint action on development priorities

    28 June 2025

    The Heads of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) met today in Paris, hosted by the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), which currently chairs the Heads of MDBs Group. The meeting focused on advancing their joint efforts to address development priorities.

  • IDB and CEB sign first-ever non-US dollar Exposure Exchange Agreement for €500 million to scale development financing

    28 June 2025

    This is the first transaction between the two institutions, the first EEA ever executed in a currency other than the US dollar, and the first of its kind for the CEB. The agreement allows both institutions to further optimise the use of their capital resources, strengthening their ability to scale development financing.

  • CEB elected to join Executive Committee of the ICMA Principles

    26 June 2025

    The CEB joins a select group of 24 investors, issuers and underwriters on the Executive Committee, the main decision-making body of the Principles, to champion global Green, Social, Sustainability and Sustainability-Linked Bond markets to finance progress towards environmental and social sustainability.

  • CEB and NIB to co-finance University of Tartu’s academic and research buildings

    25 June 2025

    NIB, CEB and the University of Tartu have agreed on up to €100 million financing for the construction and renovation of the university’s academic and research buildings in Estonia.

  • CEB hosts MDB chief risk and finance officers in Paris to advance system-wide collaboration

    19 June 2025
  • Statement by Governor Monticelli to the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Rapporteur Group on Social and Health Questions* (GR-SOC) (Strasbourg, 17 June 2025)

    17 June 2025

    Statement by Governor Monticelli at Rapporteur Group on Social and Health Questions

  • CEB issues EUR 1 billion 2.750% bond benchmark due June 2035

    13 June 2025

    CEB issues EUR 1 billion 2.750% bond benchmark due June 2035

  • CEB approves nine new loans totalling €878 million

    13 June 2025

    CEB approves nine new loans totalling €878 million

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