business overview
NIBC Bank is a leading merchant bank focused on the mid-cap company segment in North-Western Europe. NIBC offers innovative corporate finance, risk management and investment management solutions to corporate clients, financial institutions, institutional investors and financial sponsors. NIBC has employees based in offices in The Hague, London, Brussels, Frankfurt and Singapore.
business model
NIBC is organised into six Strategic Business Units (SBUs): Corporate Finance, Real Estate Markets, Financial Markets, Principal Investments, Investment Management and Corporate Center. It is the responsibility of our dedicated client coverage teams to identify opportunities across the six SBUs while maintaining long-term relationships with issuer and investor clients.
NIBC’s structure also enables client coverage teams to cooperate with product teams to provide tailored solutions and look beyond single products, assets or SBUs in order to focus on bank-wide opportunities. This enables NIBC to have a ‘triple play’ approach to doing business: advising, financing and co-investing with its clients.
The ‘triple play’ approach means servicing all our clients’ needs through a one-stop shop solution. This usually begins with our specialist client coverage teams, who provide clients with expert M&A and risk management advice in selected market segments. At the next stage, NIBC provides a range of debt products to meet a client’s specific needs. Lastly, we co-invest with our clients through our private equity products.
Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance provides M&A advisory, capital markets financing and risk management solutions to clients, focusing on origination, structuring and execution. It consists of seven client coverage teams and three product groups who work in tandem to offer integrated banking solutions. The specialised client coverage teams play a key role in developing and maintaining client relationships, as well as in identifying new opportunities. There are seven dedicated client teams for selected market segments: General Industries, Food & Retail, Financial Sponsors, Financial Institutions, Commercial Real Estate, Infrastructure and Transport & Energy.
Real Estate Markets
Real Estate Markets originates residential and commercial real estate financing with the aim of distributing these assets through a variety of methods including securitisation, syndications and portfolio sales. Its main focus is on residential mortgages and commercial real estate financing in the Netherlands and Germany. Real Estate Markets is also NIBC’s centre of capital market distribution and structuring of non-real estate assets for other SBUs.
Financial Markets
Financial Markets is responsible for the distribution and market making of the bank’s securitised debt and derivative products. All transactions that NIBC issues or lead-manages are supported in the after market by secondary market trading activities. Financial Markets provides interest-rate derivatives and other hedging instruments to NIBC’s client base. It maintains a trading book in these derivatives to facilitate clients’ deal flow. Financial Markets is also NIBC’s corporate treasury centre and is responsible for its funding and liquidity management, as well as money market trading and market making in NIBC’s bonds.
Principal Investments
Principal Investments is responsible for making investments in funds managed by the SBU Investment Management and funds managed by third parties. The unit focuses on the bank’s participation in private equity, mezzanine, real estate and infrastructure funds.
Investment Management
Investment Management is responsible for developing asset management activities for NIBC’s equity funds and Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDO) platforms and funds managed by NIBC Credit Management. The unit manages NIBC’s equity funds: the NIBC Merchant Banking Funds, the NIBC European Infrastructure Fund and the NIBC European Real Estate Fund. In addition, Investment Management manages NIBC’s minority interests in general partners of private equity funds managed by third parties. NIBC Credit Management manages a portfolio of credit fixed-income investments in a variety of asset classes, such as global corporate credits and selected European securitised debt products.
Corporate Center
Corporate Center groups all the bank’s support services, such as Human Resources, Group Finance & Tax, Group Technology & Operations, General Counsel & Corporate Secretariat, Legal, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Group Compliance and Internal Audit.
