{"version":"1","article":{"id":"saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022","slug":"saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022","language":"en","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022?lang=en","title":"Saudi development fund reports SAR1.766 billion in 2025 loan agreements","summary":"The annual-report figures cover 13 agreements with 11 developing countries and distinguish the Fund’s contribution from total project costs.","category":"finance","region":"world","topics":[],"published_at":"2026-10-23T14:12:42+03:00","modified_at":"2026-10-23T14:12:42+03:00","publication_basis":"publication-record","event_period":"2026-10","event_period_basis":"source-review","sources":[{"name":"Saudi Press Agency (SPA)","url":"https://www.spa.gov.sa/N2707868","publishedAt":"2026-10-22","checkedAt":"2026-10-23"}],"translations":[{"language":"tr","url":"https://haberpaper.com/tr/news/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022?lang=tr"},{"language":"en","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022?lang=en"},{"language":"ar","url":"https://haberpaper.com/ar/news/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022?lang=ar"},{"language":"fr","url":"https://haberpaper.com/fr/news/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022?lang=fr"},{"language":"es","url":"https://haberpaper.com/es/news/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022","api_url":"https://haberpaper.com/api/v1/articles/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022?lang=es"}],"data_types":["metrics"],"relationships":{"entities":[{"id":"saudi-fund-for-development","type":"organization","name":"Saudi Fund for Development","name_language":"en","collection_url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/entity/organization:saudi-fund-for-development","evidence":{"source_url":"https://www.spa.gov.sa/N2707868","text":"The Saudi Fund for Development signed 13 development-loan agreements with 11 developing countries during 2025, totalling SAR1,765.91 million, according to a Saudi Press Agency report published on 22 October citing the Fund’s annual report. The figures describe the 2025 reporting year, rather than financing newly agreed on the announcement date.","language":"en"}},{"id":"saudi-arabia","type":"place","name":"Saudi Arabia","name_language":"en","collection_url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/entity/place:saudi-arabia","evidence":{"source_url":"https://www.spa.gov.sa/N2707868","text":"The distinction matters when assessing the scale of Saudi Arabia’s development financing: total project costs include other financiers’ participation and cannot be presented as the Fund’s own lending. The reported agreement values also should not be described as cash already disbursed; the announcement does not provide a matching disbursement total.","language":"en"}}],"event":null,"contextual_links":[],"timeline":[{"id":"saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/saudi-development-fund-2025-loan-agreements-report-20261022","language":"en","title":"Saudi development fund reports SAR1.766 billion in 2025 loan agreements","event_period":"2026-10","event_period_basis":"source-review","published_at":"2026-10-23T14:12:42+03:00","relationship_basis":"entity"},{"id":"saudi-roads-culvert-inspection-robot-20261022","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/saudi-roads-culvert-inspection-robot-20261022","language":"en","title":"Saudi roads authority introduces robot for culvert inspections","event_period":"2026-10","event_period_basis":"source-review","published_at":"2026-10-23T14:12:52+03:00","relationship_basis":"entity"},{"id":"saudi-makeen-kongsberg-waterjet-production-partnership-20261022","url":"https://haberpaper.com/en/news/saudi-makeen-kongsberg-waterjet-production-partnership-20261022","language":"en","title":"Makeen and Kongsberg Maritime sign Saudi waterjet production partnership","event_period":"2026-10-22","event_period_basis":"event","published_at":"2026-10-23T14:12:47+03:00","relationship_basis":"entity"}]},"data":{"version":1,"blocks":[{"id":"sdf-2025-agreements","type":"metrics","title":{"tr":"2025 kredi anlaşmaları","en":"2025 loan agreements","ar":"اتفاقيات القروض في 2025","fr":"Accords de prêts en 2025","es":"Acuerdos de préstamo en 2025"},"description":{"tr":"Fonun yıllık raporunu aktaran 22 Ekim SPA haberindeki imzalanan anlaşmalar; nakit kullandırım değil.","en":"Signed agreements in the 22 October SPA account of the Fund annual report; not cash disbursements.","ar":"اتفاقيات موقعة وفق خبر واس في 22 أكتوبر عن التقرير السنوي للصندوق، وليست مبالغ مصروفة.","fr":"Accords signés selon SPA le 22 octobre, citant le rapport annuel ; pas des décaissements.","es":"Acuerdos firmados según SPA el 22 de octubre, citando el informe anual; no desembolsos."},"methodology":{"tr":"2025 raporlama yılı için kaynakta verilen üç ayrı gösterge doğrudan aktarılır. 1765,91 milyon SAR fonun toplam anlaşma değeri; 13 anlaşma ve 11 ülke ayrı sayımlardır, toplanmaz. Ortak finansmanlı projelerin toplam maliyeti bu tutara eklenmez.","en":"Three separate source-reported indicators for the 2025 reporting year are transcribed directly. SAR1765.91 million is the total agreement value; 13 agreements and 11 countries are separate counts, not additive. Total co-financed project costs are not added to this value.","ar":"نقل مباشر لثلاثة مؤشرات منفصلة لسنة التقرير 2025. مبلغ 1765.91 مليون ريال هو إجمالي قيمة الاتفاقيات؛ و13 اتفاقية و11 دولة عددان منفصلان لا يُجمعان. لا تُضاف تكاليف المشروعات المشتركة إلى هذا المبلغ.","fr":"Transcription de trois indicateurs distincts de 2025. Les 1765,91 millions de SAR correspondent aux accords ; 13 accords et 11 pays sont des dénombrements non additifs. Les coûts totaux des projets cofinancés ne s’ajoutent pas à cette somme.","es":"Transcripción de tres indicadores distintos de 2025. Los 1765,91 millones de SAR son el valor de acuerdos; 13 acuerdos y 11 países son recuentos no sumables. 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The figures describe the 2025 reporting year, rather than financing newly agreed on the announcement date.","The regional breakdown includes two loans in Africa worth SAR368.28 million, six in Asia and the Pacific worth SAR855 million, two in Europe worth SAR120 million and three in Latin America and the Caribbean worth SAR422.62 million. Suriname, Solomon Islands and Barbados were new countries in the Fund’s lending activity.","Nine of the loans, covering eight countries, involved co-financing. The Fund’s contribution to those projects was SAR1,315.12 million, against combined project costs of SAR4,969.93 million. The release identifies partners including the Islamic Development Bank, the OPEC Fund for International Development, the Asian Development Bank and recipient governments.","The distinction matters when assessing the scale of Saudi Arabia’s development financing: total project costs include other financiers’ participation and cannot be presented as the Fund’s own lending. The reported agreement values also should not be described as cash already disbursed; the announcement does not provide a matching disbursement total."],"key_points":[],"sections":[]},"text":"The annual-report figures cover 13 agreements with 11 developing countries and distinguish the Fund’s contribution from total project costs.\n\nThe Saudi Fund for Development signed 13 development-loan agreements with 11 developing countries during 2025, totalling SAR1,765.91 million, according to a Saudi Press Agency report published on 22 October citing the Fund’s annual report. The figures describe the 2025 reporting year, rather than financing newly agreed on the announcement date.\n\nThe regional breakdown includes two loans in Africa worth SAR368.28 million, six in Asia and the Pacific worth SAR855 million, two in Europe worth SAR120 million and three in Latin America and the Caribbean worth SAR422.62 million. Suriname, Solomon Islands and Barbados were new countries in the Fund’s lending activity.\n\nNine of the loans, covering eight countries, involved co-financing. The Fund’s contribution to those projects was SAR1,315.12 million, against combined project costs of SAR4,969.93 million. The release identifies partners including the Islamic Development Bank, the OPEC Fund for International Development, the Asian Development Bank and recipient governments.\n\nThe distinction matters when assessing the scale of Saudi Arabia’s development financing: total project costs include other financiers’ participation and cannot be presented as the Fund’s own lending. The reported agreement values also should not be described as cash already disbursed; the announcement does not provide a matching disbursement total.","corrections":[],"editorial_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"article","asset_id":"banking-credit","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/banking-credit-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic banking and credit intermediation with columned buildings, a bridge, blank ledger and unmarked coins.","language":"en"},"section_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"finance","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/finance-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic financial system with a vault door, columns and unmarked coins.","language":"en"}}}