For Underwriters & Insurers
Blue Bonds, Built on Rock
Independent seabed mineral intelligence for the underwriters and insurers of sovereign blue bonds and debt-for-nature swaps.
The Gap
Pricing Ocean Assets Nobody Has Measured
Blue bonds and debt-for-nature swaps increasingly ask developing countries to pledge, protect or conserve their ocean – yet many have little data on what lies on their own seabed. That leaves underwriters pricing political risk, contract frustration and credit enhancement across an information gap.
M-Cubed closes it. We are an independent exploration company with no stake in mining, providing the subsea and spatial intelligence behind sovereign blue finance – while the country keeps 100% of the data and the decision.
What It Means for You
Price It
An evidence-based view of seabed mineral potential across an issuer's EEZ – the asset side of the deal, quantified rather than assumed.
Verify It
A documented baseline of deposits and seabed condition, against which conservation commitments can be monitored for the life of the deal.
Trust It
No stake in mining means no incentive to overstate or understate what we find. One dataset for issuer, arranger and insurer.
SDG Alignment
Built Into the Goals Blue Finance Serves
- 14.7 Economic benefits to small island and least developed states from marine resources
- 14.a Scientific knowledge, research capacity and marine technology transfer
- 14.c Implementing international law as reflected in UNCLOS
- 17.3 Mobilising additional financial resources for developing countries
- 17.4 Long-term debt sustainability, including debt restructuring
- 12.2 Sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
How We Work
Discover, Document, Determine
A desktop review maps known and inferred deposits; non-invasive surveys and minimally invasive sampling document them; the sovereign receives all data and decides what happens next.
See the Full Process →The Next Step
We'd value 30 minutes of your time – to understand what data would make a sovereign blue deal easier to underwrite, and to explore a pilot desktop review for an EEZ in your pipeline.