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AIIB plans new platform to boost private funding for Asia infrastructure
The bank said it has mobilised about US$17.5 billion in private capital since inception through end-2025, and targets faster growth via a programmatic co-investment approach that could scale private participation roughly fourfold.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is developing a new platform intended to pool capital from institutional investors to fund infrastructure debt across its 111 member countries, aiming to roughly quadruple the private capital it mobilises, according to AIIB’s chief investment officer Kim-See Lim.
In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Lim said the mechanism is at a very early stage, with more details expected within six to nine months. She described the plan as moving from deal-by-deal negotiations toward setting common terms so investors can co-invest in infrastructure as an asset class programmatically.
AIIB said it has mobilised around US$17.5 billion in private capital, both directly and indirectly, from its inception through the end of 2025. Lim said the aim is to grow far faster through the new platform, describing the need as making infrastructure projects happen at greater speed and scale.
The initiative comes as Asia faces a large infrastructure gap. Lim cited an Asian Development Bank estimate that the region requires US$1.7 trillion in annual infrastructure investment through 2030, alongside a persistent shortfall of up to US$700 billion a year.