CaixaBank CIB channels more than 39.5 billion euros of financing in 2024, through more than 2,000 transactions

• Strong activity is expected in the telecommunications infrastructure sector in 2025 

• Sustainable financing in this area of the bank reached more than 19.5 billion euros in 2024

CaixaBank's Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) division has formalised more than 2,000 transactions in 2024 through its three business areas: Corporate Banking, International Banking and Institutional Banking. In total, it channelled more than 39.5 billion euros of investment, a 20% increase on the previous year. The most active sectors were industry, technology, media and telecommunications, and construction and infrastructure.

In 2024, the growth in lending by international branches is particularly noteworthy, reaching 19.3 billion euros, an increase of 18.7% over the previous year.

In 2025, CaixaBank CIB expects strong activity in the industrial and telecommunications infrastructure sector (data centres and fibre optics), as well as an increase in the financing of projects combining data centres and renewable energy generation. The increase in battery storage capacity may also be a thriving sector.

"CaixaBank's new Strategic Plan 2025-2027 sees the CIB as one of the pillars for accelerating the bank's growth, and to meet this challenge we have a team of more than 850 professionals with the skills and focus needed to provide a high-quality service and compete in a global market that requires a high degree of specialisation.

Iñaki Badiola - CaixaBank's CIB director

The commitment to sustainable finance continues

CaixaBank CIB reached 19.53 billion euros in sustainable finance in 2024, 1.6% more than in 2023, through 645 operations in 37 countries. This placed CaixaBank 4th in Europe and 13th in the world, according to the Refinitiv-LSEG ranking.

Long-term transactions stood out, such as the financing of Sonnedix to finance its platform of regulated photovoltaic projects in Spain, a transaction that won the Portfolio Deal of the Year award at the PFI Europe Awards, or the recognition from the EBRD for two foreign trade financing operations, named Deal of the Year - Green Trade in the categories of circular economy and renewable energy.

International acknowledgments

CaixaBank's CIB Division has received several international awards this year.

Firstly, it was honoured with three awards at the Coalition Greenwich Awards 2025, including the award for the 2025 Best Bank in Corporate Banking in Spain, where it won first place. CaixaBank has also been awarded as the 2025 Share Leader in Corporate Banking in Market Penetration in Spain and 2025 Share Leader in Corporate Cash Management in Market Penetration in Spain, two awards that take into account the different market shares in corporate and investment banking in Spain.

Some of the deals in which CaixaBank has participated have also been recognised in the PFI Awards of the publication Project Finance International. In addition to the previously mentioned Portfolio Deal of the Year, there is the Infrastructure Deal of the Year, for financing the improvement of the R4 West End Road in Ghent (Belgium), the Americas Deal of the Year for Costal Virginia Offshore Wind, the largest offshore wind project in the United States, and the Americas Data Center Deal of the Year for Project Bighom, which is financing the construction of a series of data centres for Amazon in Nevada (United States).

And in the field of the real estate business, the work of CaixaBank CIB and Hotels & Tourism (CaixaBank Empresas) won the 2024 Bank Lender of the Year in Southern Europe at the Real Estate Capital Europe Awards, organised by the international PEI Group.