Innovative Financing solutions

Innovative Financing solutions

As an open Non-Financial Securities Infrastructure (NFSI), we innovate actively by developing services in close collaboration with clients. We have also embarked on a number of partnerships with non-financial market infrastructure and pioneering FinTech startups aimed at better ways of working to increase efficiency and reduce cost and risk.

23RDB’s Sustainability Approach

Sustainable finance incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into financial portfolio selection and management. The 2020 Global Sustainable Investment Review (GSIR) found that global sustainable investment reached $35.3 trillion in five major markets including the U.S., a 15% increase in the past two years (2018- 2020).

Sustainable finance that focuses on environmental factors is called green finance. At its simplest, green finance is any structured financial activity—a product or service—that is created to ensure a better environmental outcome. It includes an array of loans, debt mechanisms and investments that are used to encourage the development of new green activities or minimize the impact on the environment of existing activities.

UAE Real Estate Investment Factsheet

The UAE real estate market has seen a significant rebound post-pandemic, with expected growth rates of 5-7% annually, fueled by increasing expatriate demand and government initiatives to attract foreign investments.

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Our Vision for encourage Sustainable Finance in

We strive to facilitate and accelerate the development of a sustainable financial system. 23RDB can support a greater supply of sustainable investment opportunities by reducing barriers to issuance. As an FMI, we aim to foster trust and transparency in the sustainable finance market by enabling the processing of ESG information and improving its flow between market participants – from issuers to asset manager and asset owners. Our global footprint helps us further expand the reach of the market to more asset classes and participants.

Our Action Plan

Access to additional financial resources from the value chain, that can redeploy savings to recognize and reward producers for delivering key environmental outcomes.

Strategic investment through our development participation for suppliers receive financing for their operations and sustainability efforts.

Create benefit package for companies to benefit in being able to integrate sustainability into their business strategy, products and services, and reduce climate impact of their operational activities, while addressing consumers’ increasing demands for buying sustainably sourced products.

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Our Vision for encourage Sustainable Finance in

We strive to facilitate and accelerate the development of a sustainable financial system. 23RDB can support a greater supply of sustainable investment opportunities by reducing barriers to issuance. As an FMI, we aim to foster trust and transparency in the sustainable finance market by enabling the processing of ESG information and improving its flow between market participants – from issuers to asset manager and asset owners. Our global footprint helps us further expand the reach of the market to more asset classes and participants.

Our Action Plan

Access to additional financial resources from the value chain, that can redeploy savings to recognize and reward producers for delivering key environmental outcomes.

Strategic investment through our development participation for suppliers receive financing for their operations and sustainability efforts.

Create benefit package for companies to benefit in being able to integrate sustainability into their business strategy, products and services, and reduce climate impact of their operational activities, while addressing consumers’ increasing demands for buying sustainably sourced products.

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Our Vision for encourage Sustainable Finance in

We strive to facilitate and accelerate the development of a sustainable financial system. 23RDB can support a greater supply of sustainable investment opportunities by reducing barriers to issuance. As an FMI, we aim to foster trust and transparency in the sustainable finance market by enabling the processing of ESG information and improving its flow between market participants – from issuers to asset manager and asset owners. Our global footprint helps us further expand the reach of the market to more asset classes and participants.

Our Action Plan

Access to additional financial resources from the value chain, that can redeploy savings to recognize and reward producers for delivering key environmental outcomes.

Strategic investment through our development participation for suppliers receive financing for their operations and sustainability efforts.

Create benefit package for companies to benefit in being able to integrate sustainability into their business strategy, products and services, and reduce climate impact of their operational activities, while addressing consumers’ increasing demands for buying sustainably sourced products.

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Our Vision for encourage Sustainable Finance in

We strive to facilitate and accelerate the development of a sustainable financial system. 23RDB can support a greater supply of sustainable investment opportunities by reducing barriers to issuance. As an FMI, we aim to foster trust and transparency in the sustainable finance market by enabling the processing of ESG information and improving its flow between market participants – from issuers to asset manager and asset owners. Our global footprint helps us further expand the reach of the market to more asset classes and participants.

Our Action Plan

Access to additional financial resources from the value chain, that can redeploy savings to recognize and reward producers for delivering key environmental outcomes.

Strategic investment through our development participation for suppliers receive financing for their operations and sustainability efforts.

Create benefit package for companies to benefit in being able to integrate sustainability into their business strategy, products and services, and reduce climate impact of their operational activities, while addressing consumers’ increasing demands for buying sustainably sourced products.

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Workplace

Our Vision for encourage Sustainable Finance in

We strive to facilitate and accelerate the development of a sustainable financial system. 23RDB can support a greater supply of sustainable investment opportunities by reducing barriers to issuance. As an FMI, we aim to foster trust and transparency in the sustainable finance market by enabling the processing of ESG information and improving its flow between market participants – from issuers to asset manager and asset owners. Our global footprint helps us further expand the reach of the market to more asset classes and participants.

Our Action Plan

Access to additional financial resources from the value chain, that can redeploy savings to recognize and reward producers for delivering key environmental outcomes.

Strategic investment through our development participation for suppliers receive financing for their operations and sustainability efforts.

Create benefit package for companies to benefit in being able to integrate sustainability into their business strategy, products and services, and reduce climate impact of their operational activities, while addressing consumers’ increasing demands for buying sustainably sourced products.

Sustainability Outlook

Financial innovation improves institutions’ ability to sustain themselves and reach out to the underprivileged. As a result, the development of financial markets and the IT sector are closely interconnected. Specifically, they share a positive correlation.

The Power Behind Instant Global Transactions

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Insight: About SHAKSETTLE®

SHAKSETTLE® is the advanced settlement backbone that powers First Digital Pay’s real-time global transfers.
Built for the modern economy, it enables instant, secure, and compliant transactions across fiat, crypto, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) — all in one unified framework.

Through deep integration with our biometric and AI infrastructure, SHAKSETTLE® ensures every transaction is authenticated, verified, and mirrored in real time — eliminating delays, reducing FX risk, and ensuring regulatory compliance across borders.

Key Advantages

FX Mirroring

Auto-aligns values across multiple currencies and asset classes.

Biometric Security

Sustainable transport focuses on reducing carbon footprints with cleaner vehicles.

Biometric Security

Auto-aligns values across multiple currencies and asset classes.

Programmable Compliance

Sustainable transport focuses on reducing carbon footprints with cleaner vehicles.

Catherine Renner

VP Senior Corporate Development Officer

Jessica Kian

Chief Sustainability Officer