While Cade (Administrative Council for Economic Defense), creating a risk to one of the most recognized private actions in combating deforestation in the Amazonian biome, a group of investors showed that there is an interest in financing deforestation free soy in Brazil.
A few days before the decision of the antitrust agency, the consortium formed by the consultancy SIM (Sustainable Investment Management) in conjunction with Fintech Treative and the Securitizer Opea raised $ 60 million with foreign investors through a green Cra, called RFC Cerrado.
The funds raised with the title are used to finance sustainable soybean production, to the cheaper interest than the market.

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The investment vehicle was created in 2022, from the need for English supermarkets, indirect Brazilian soybean consumers, to finance a more sustainable production of commodity, based on the premise that new areas is not necessary to open the increase in demand.
After the structure of the CRA, the title came to the market with a contribution of $ 11 million, made by the nets Tesco, Sansbury’s and Waitethose. The following year, the amount grew, from contributions from Rabobank, the Agri3 and Santander Fund, reaching $ 47 million.
Last year, in the face of all mishaps in the grain crop, the consortium’s stance was more conservative: just investing the residual of US $ 6 million. “We wanted to wait to better understand how the market situation was, and this year we got back to the cargo,” explains Maurício de Moura Costa, the founder and COO of SIM, to The Agribiliz.
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In this new round, the Program (MFF), managed by the Dutch Development Bank FMO and funded by the Governments of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and also the.
“Our big challenge is really the capital market, more sensitive to return. In our view, this can be overcome when we can have a more stable source of subordinate capital. That’s when we are working now,” says Costa, still not giving details of what is on the table.
In the next crop, the ambition is to reach $ 200 million. Investors expect to find an auspicious environment for capture: this year, the initial estimate was to reach $ 150 million, a task that proved to be difficult.
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How does it work?
CRA works with a blended financial structure, mixing investors with catalytic capital with market investors. In this mix, CRA offers loans to producers who cost an average of 8.5% to 9.5% per year (in dollar).
The money captured this year should benefit about 280 rural properties, with the expectation of production of 240 thousand tons of deforestation free soy. With this, the estimate of the triad is to conserve about 90 thousand hectares of native vegetation.
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Treaty will select producers from a customer network that uses Fintech’s credit platform (especially looking at dealers and cooperatives). Opea does the securitization.
“This year, we use at least 40 original channels, we greatly increased our network. In the end, we analyzed almost 2,000 names. We always seek this efficiency of the Origination Treadmill, which is the basis of our model for different financial solutions,” explains Maurício Quintella, Travee’s business director.
There is no determined size of an eligible producer to the program. From the candidacy of the stakeholders, it is a match between what they offer and the criteria of enforceability, focused on environmental preservation.