MOBILIST Product Platform

‘Mobilising Institutional Capital Through Listed Product Structures’ (MOBILIST) is FCDO’s first programme targeting listed markets for their potential to mobilise large scale investment flows. MOBILIST seeks to partner with the financial services industry in developing listed products that can intermediate this capital, and in a form that responds to the prudential regulations and investment models that today define the scope of opportunity for institutional capital. MOBLIST supports HMG’s ambition to position the City of London as one of the world’s most major development finance hubs. Partnering with UK and overseas-based financial institutions, FCDO’s ambition is to invest up to £90m into helping address the financing gap. Outputs include 5 new listed products (subject to a successful competition(s)), which must have the ability to list on major and or local exchanges and be easily replicable in the market. These products will demonstrate the opportunity and begin to address the critical barrier of information asymmetry, helping to grow investment choices and bring greater transparency to price and risk for investors that will be needed if large flows of institutional capital to bridge the SDG financing gap are to be possible.