Investors and defense companies sought a consensus in Bercy this Thursday on the additional financing of defense companies, necessary for the evolution of the US position against Ukraine.
Therefore, public institutions, banks and investment funds have announced several financial contributions to support the 4,500 SME and ETI that today make up the industrial and technological defense database (BITD). General description.
• Bpifrance
The Bpifrance Public Bank announced that it would launch a new fund of 450 million euros, called “Bpifrance Defense”, open to all French, such as what you already do for SMEs. This placement will be accessible from 500 euros and will be blocked for a certain period of time.
The Innovation Defense Fund, administered by BPIFRANCE, will fall from 200 to 275 million euros thanks to the subscriptions provided by Missilier MBDA, the German insurer Allianz, the Caisse des Dépôts and Bpifrance. The so -called French technological sovereignty, also administered by BPIFRANCE and in the widest field, will reassure 200 million euros. The final fund, also in the Giron of the Public Bank and endowed with 100 million euros, will finally see its prolonged duration.
• Caisse des dépôts
Caisse des Dépôts, a public financial arm, emphasized Thursday that changed its investment doctrine to more easily integrate defense companies, whose needs are growing. This “review of the sector investment policy” will allow “the investment of all its subsidiaries” in the industrial and technological defense base, a fabric of 4,500 companies in the sector, said Bercy.
It considers in particular that “defense financing is one of the sustainable development objectives.”
• Defact
French Fintech defact announced Thursday that it would bring to 1.8 billion euros, since the summer of 2025, its financing capacity for the cash of companies in the defense sector.
The defact is intended to meet the needs of the companies, to finance, for example, the purchase of actions or advances of payment.
The Sienna IM manager had also announced last Friday the launch of a private debt fund, called Hephaïstos, referring to the god of Olympus of Forgeon, to gather up to one billion euros for the financing of European SMEs of the defense ecosystem.
• BPCE
The BPCE banking group, which brings together the networks of popular savings banks and savings banks, will double its exhibitions in the sector. “Today, BPCE guarantees the duplication of its commitment to the defense, up to 500 million euros,” said BPCE Execution Board, Nicolas Namias, Bercy invited Bercy on Thursday to represent the banking sector. The Bank has also updated its policy of supporting defense financing.
• BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas also aims to double its insurance commitments and will launch new funds with its asset manager limit. “We are going to create specific defense mandates in the coming weeks, two new funds in asset management (asset management, editor’s note),” said Bank general director, Renaud Dumora, during a round table.
“On the Cardif side (group’s insurance subsidiary, editor’s note) we will also double our commitment to defense” and “we will add another 500 million euros in the next three years,” he continued.
• Capital of Tikehau
The deputy director general of the active manager Tikehau Capital, already present in the aeronautical sector, spoke on Thursday the launch of an investment medium dedicated to finance the defense industry. “We are in the process of establishing a new project that will constitute a unit of accounts that will be accessible to life insurance contracts, also for the retirement savings plan,” Henri Marcoux told Bercy. It will be distributed in association with the guarantees of Société Générale.
Source: BFM TV
