A coalition-built, anonymised repository of realised performance, risk, and investment characteristics data across emerging markets and developing economies, giving investors the evidence base to make better decisions, at every stage of the investment lifecycle.
Existing commercial datasets have low or no coverage of the metrics investors need most in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). This initiative fills those gaps with empirical, transaction-level data contributed directly by market participants.
Realised return metrics at transaction-level, giving investors a comparable evidence base on investment outcomes.
Empirical loss benchmarks segmented by sector, country, and project phase, moving beyond proxies and sovereign approximations to realised data.
Data on deal characteristics across investments, highlighting trends and drivers of investment outcomes.
The database is designed to target decisions from market-wide perceptions of EMDE investment opportunities through to individual transaction structuring and portfolio monitoring.
Aggregate, empirical performance data can inform market-wide assumptions on EMDE investment outcomes, providing the evidence base needed to support a more accurate understanding of risk and return, and strengthen calibration of credit rating methodologies.
Develop credible internal business cases to establish or expand EMDE investment capabilities. Cross-market risk and return benchmarks to quantify opportunity size, capital efficiency, and inform target returns and allocation sizing.
Inform transaction risk and return using empirical EMDE data. Phase-, sector- and country-level benchmarks to calibrate PD/LGD assumptions, structure pricing, and monitor EMDE exposure based on realised performance trends.
The database is built on transaction-level data contributed directly by private investors, processed through robust anonymisation protocols, and structured to generate standardised benchmarks that no single institution could produce alone.
Contributors shape the scope, methodology, and data standards to ensure that what gets measured reflects what actually matters for investment decision-making.
Robust anonymisation and aggregation protocols allow institutions to share sensitive transaction data with confidence, with no proprietary information disclosed.
Benchmark reports will be made available as a public good. They will be accessible to investors, rating agencies, researchers, and policymakers across the market.
We are at an early stage, assembling a founding group of institutional investors, asset managers, and financial institutions to help shape this initiative from the ground up. If you would like to be involved, whether as a data contributor, methodology partner, or supporter, we would like to hear from you.