Brazil: BNDES and FINEP launch BRL 5 billion call to support strategic mineral projects

Announcement

07 Jan 2025

In January 2025, the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and the Brazilian Company of Innovation and Research (FINEP in Portuguese) announced a BRL 5 billion initiative to support projects for the transformation of strategic minerals.

Source

Number of interventions

3 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

07 Jan 2025

Revocation date:

30 Apr 2025

Updated: 07 Jan 2025

Capital injection and equity stakes (including bailouts)

On 7 January 2025, the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and the Brazilian Company of Innovation and Research (FINEP in Portuguese) launched a BRL 5 billion (USD 824 million...