Building a Better World with a Transparent Investment Platform

Developing markets have tremendous potential.  Growing populations, significant urbanization, abundant natural resources, passionate entrepreneurs and increasingly educated workforces.  They also can play an important part in mitigating and combatting climate change. In too many cases, the obstacle to a thriving high-growth economy and realizing climate goals is a shortage of suitable funding.

At the same time, investors in mature economies struggle to find low-risk investments with sufficient yield to support their portfolio objectives, and investors are searching for suitable instruments to contribute to the funding of climate projects.

Cathmere is a stealth-stage Web 3.0 venture, building the bridge from high-impact developing market opportunities to sophisticated mature-market investors’ needs for higher yield at low risk, through comprehensive, auditable real-time data transparency through the CQR®Invest platform, fueled by immutable data from CQR®Chain.

Emerging Markets Opportunities

Asset Backed Securities for Emerging Markets

In mature markets, Commercial Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) are an important pillar of institutional investors’ fixed-income portfolios, with an estimated $1.7 Trillion outstanding in 2023*.  These securities are backed with the cash flows that the issuers of the securities receive for the services (e.g. energy, or use of equipment) they provide with the equipment and installations they own. The installation and equipment also serve as collateral for the securities. The result is very low default risk for investors compared with, for instance, mortgage-backed securities, where fluctuations in real-estate asset values can have a significant impact on loan repayment rates.

Historically, Asset Backed Securities have only been created for large institutional investors, focusing on large quantities of high-value assets in mature markets, with known components that establish the trust that investors in these securities require. Many of these components are unavailable to issuers in emerging markets, and hence the ABS market is inaccessible to them.

Cathmere’s digital-first platform bridges the trust gap and makes it possible for issuers in emerging markets to offer Asset Backed Securities. the platform also opens the market to (accredited) retail investors.

* Source: Guggenheim Investments, JP Morgan, eMBS. Data as of 2.28.2023

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Leadership

The Cathmere leadership team brings decades of experience in early-stage investment, technology-led new venture creation, and business building in Africa and other emerging markets

Join the team

Cathmere is seeking experienced senior developers that are passionate about both Web 3.0 and achieving business success through positive social impact.