Financing solutions for institutional clients

We are committed to supporting our clients in meeting their sustainability objectives through a range of sustainable financing solutions designed to drive improved environmental and social outcomes.

For clients seeking to finance specific assets and projects aiming to deliver environmental and social benefits, we can offer green and social use of proceeds finance. For clients with general purpose funding requirements, our sustainability-linked solutions can help meet their needs while incentivising the achievement of defined sustainability targets. These financing solutions are structured and assessed by reference to market standards and guidelines published by the Loan Market Association, the Loan Syndications and Trading Association, the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association and the International Capital Markets Association (as relevant).

We provide flexible lending solutions to support the strategic priorities of corporate and institutional clients. Our teams work with clients across a broad range of sectors to structure financing that supports day-to-day liquidity, investment, acquisition activity, refinancing, capital management and growth.

With relationship teams in Australia and key international markets, we work closely with clients to understand their objectives and combine sector insight, structuring expertise and execution capability to deliver loan solutions.

As one of Australia and New Zealand's largest commercial real estate lenders, we provide financing solutions that support acquisition, investment and development activities across the property sector. We partner with many of the region's leading REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts), institutional domestic and international investment managers, and sovereign wealth and superannuation/pension funds, combining deep sector expertise with structuring and execution capability to deliver financing solutions.

Our team supports clients across traditional commercial real estate asset classes including retail, office and industrial, as well as the growing living sectors such as build-to-rent, retirement living, social and affordable housing, purpose-built student accommodation and land lease communities. We also provide financing solutions for alternative real asset sectors including self-storage, cold storage and data centres, helping clients capitalise on evolving investment opportunities and long-term structural growth trends.

As one of Australia and New Zealand’s leading project financiers, we have a long-standing commitment to supporting the development and operation of essential infrastructure, energy and natural resources assets. We have experience and demonstrated capability in arranging and providing financing solutions across a broad range of sectors and project stages.

Our team has significant experience across renewable energy, firming and storage technologies, transmission infrastructure, mining and natural resources, digital infrastructure, transport and social infrastructure assets. We provide a broad range of financing solutions, including senior debt, club and syndicated facilities, acquisition financing and funding structures. Supporting clients throughout the project lifecycle, from development and construction through to operations and refinancing, we leverage our strong balance sheet, distribution capability and deep industry relationships to help deliver projects that support energy transition, resource development and long-term economic growth.

Our structured asset finance business brings together deep expertise and proven experience across a broad range of asset markets. This is backed by a global execution capability to develop innovative lending and leasing solutions for the financing of assets and infrastructure that our clients need to grow and to transition their business.

We provide asset-based financing solutions across aviation, renewable energy and sustainable assets, low carbon transportation assets including zero emission buses, major production, logistics, digital, technology, healthcare and manufacturing equipment.

The Private Equity and Acquisition Finance business is a leading player in the Australian and New Zealand markets and partners with financial sponsors and private equity-backed companies.  We structure, arrange and underwrite innovative debt financing solutions across leveraged and management buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalisations and refinancings, public listings, growth capital, and event-driven acquisition financings.

The Private Equity and Acquisition Finance team is comprised of specialist banking professionals based in Sydney and Melbourne with deep sector experience and trusted relationships across financial sponsors and advisors. Our ability to support a wide range of client objectives is underpinned by a comprehensive financing and product suite offering and strong, demonstrated execution capability.

Working closely with the specialised lending product and client coverage teams, Lending Solutions take a product, industry & client-type agnostic approach to identifying and developing funding solutions to best meet each client’s objectives. Utilising both Commonwealth Bank’s risk appetite and incremental capacity via Lending Partnerships, we typically utilise or enhance existing products, combine multiple financing approaches or re-imagine how these can be applied across different sectors or circumstances. 

Lending Partnerships seeks to enhance Commonwealth Bank's client offering by partnering with other financial & strategic investors to deliver more flexible, scalable and holistic solutions to our borrower clients. These partnerships can facilitate funding solutions that extend beyond Commonwealth Bank’s own risk appetite whilst also providing significant asset accumulation opportunities for our institutional clients.

The securitisation business is focused on delivering bespoke funding solutions for our clients' securitisable cash flows. We offer both balance sheet funding facilities and the ability to access term capital markets, supported by a global sales team. The business offers a diverse spectrum of asset backed facilities in Australia and New Zealand, backed by residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto finance, equipment leases, consumer or trade receivables.

Funds Finance is specialist lending for investment funds, helping managers manage liquidity, optimise capital and execute with confidence across the fund lifecycle. Commonwealth Bank supports private markets clients with financing solutions, including subscription facilities backed by investor commitments and Net Asset Value (NAV) facilities supported by underlying portfolio assets and cash flows. In an increasingly complex market environment, our clients look to us for deep structuring expertise, disciplined execution, and the strength of a bank with broad coverage across global private markets.