Defence and Resilience Finance - A Preliminary Overview of Main Drivers and Financial Instruments

Financial sector professionals who wish to develop a practical understanding of defence and resilience finance and its implications for issuers, investors and market participants.

This training provides a practical overview of the evolving defence and resilience finance landscape, focusing on how geopolitical developments, strategic autonomy objectives and infrastructure resilience needs are shaping investment priorities and market expectations.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the market context driving defence and resilience finance, including geopolitics, strategic autonomy and security of supply considerations
• Identify key emerging EU initiatives and instruments supporting defence-related financing
• Explain the concept of dual-use technologies and assess their relevance for companies, and investors
• Recognise the role of infrastructure resilience in broader defence and strategic autonomy objectives
• Analyse how defence-related activities interact with ESG frameworks, investor expectations and sustainability considerations
• Identify key risk factors associated with defence and resilience finance, including regulatory, reputational, geopolitical and disclosure-related risks
• Understand market expectations around transparency, disclosure and investor confidence in defence-related financing

• Defence finance market context (geopolitics, strategic autonomy, resilience)
• Emerging EU defence instruments
• Dual-use technologies and investments (dual-use companies, investor confidence)
• Infrastructure resilience
• Defence and ESG