{"id":120807,"date":"2026-07-08T02:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/120807\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:52:12","slug":"nine-countries-commit-to-global-defence-bank-canada-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/120807\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine countries commit to global defence bank, Canada says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ankara, Turkey\/London, UK
Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n

Nine countries have committed to a new global defence bank, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday, in a boost for the multilateral drive to help rearm allied nations.<\/p>\n

Carney said in a statement at the NATO summit in Turkey\u2019s capital Ankara that Albania, Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine had all pledged their support to the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), which will be based in Canada.<\/p>\n

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his wife, Diana Fox Carney, arrive at Ankara Airport to attend the 36th NATO Heads of State and Government Summit in Ankara, Turkey, on 7th July, 2026. PICTURE: Muhammed Abdullah Kurtar\/Pool via Reuters<\/p>\n

The roster contained no heavyweight G7 nations other than Canada, potentially limiting the bank\u2019s financial firepower, although Canada\u2019s foreign minister, Anita Anand, told Reuters it would remain open to new members.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a beginning, but they may have been hoping for the backing of bigger European players. In principle they can get this airborne with these commitments,\u201d said Linus Terhorst, an analyst at defence think tank Royal United Services Institute.<\/p>\n

The bank\u2019s purpose is to bolster the defence of like-minded allied nations by raising up to \u00a3100 billion ($134 billion) in cheap financing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Defence, Security and Resilience Bank will unlock investment, strengthen our defence industrial base, and ensure that Canada and our Allies have the capacity to meet the challenges of a more dangerous and divided world together,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n

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Canada added that the partner countries had been invited to ratify the plans domestically, with the aim of making the DSRB operational in 2027.<\/p>\n

It said Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine had underscored the need for allies to produce defence capabilities at speed and scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DSRB is designed to expand access to capital, reduce financing costs, and support expansion of industrial capacity across member countries,\u201d the nine nations said in a separate\u00a0joint statement.<\/p>\n

Luxembourg had already publicly pledged its support.<\/p>\n

Loan guarantees
Carney\u2019s government has taken charge of promoting DSRB this year and had been aiming to unveil around 10 national backers at the NATO summit, the country\u2019s lead negotiator told Reuters last week.<\/p>\n

Carney earlier this year called for an alliance of \u201cmiddle powers\u201d to combat what he sees as the fracturing of the traditional US-led world order.<\/p>\n

However, the DSRB has faced challenges securing support from larger European nations. Britain and Germany had previously distanced themselves from the project. But UK finance minister Rachel Reeves said in the country\u2019s parliament last month that it was now \u201cworking closely\u201d with Canada on the DSRB.<\/p>\n

Britain has been promoting its own separate multilateral defence funding programme, which secured the backing of Poland on Monday, adding to support from the Netherlands and Finland.<\/p>\n

The DSRB is aiming to secure a triple-A credit rating, allowing it to provide low-interest loans to fund defence projects, particularly for nations and companies that currently struggle to access cheaper finance.<\/p>\n

It also plans to provide loan guarantees to private banks to support defence industry scaling.<\/p>\n

Rising defence demands
A group of former NATO security advisers, senior ex-military personnel and bankers proposed the DSRB in 2024.<\/p>\n

NATO nations and their allies are grappling with rising defence demands linked to the war in Ukraine, growing tensions with Russia and concerns about China\u2019s military expansion.<\/p>\n

NATO leaders agreed in June 2025 to spend five per cent of GDP on defence and security-related investments by 2035.<\/p>\n

Top banks, including JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and ING, have joined the project alongside Canada\u2019s RBC, BMO, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Bank.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Additional reporting by DAVID LJUNGGREN in Ottawa, Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ankara, Turkey\/London, UKReuters Nine countries have committed to a new global defence bank, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14108,17953,17,6885,40916,8644,20720,37661,111,40193,40917,13243,1197,3297],"class_list":["post-120807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-albania","tag-belgium","tag-canada","tag-defence","tag-global-defence-bank","tag-greece","tag-latvia","tag-luxembourg","tag-mark-carney","tag-nato-summit","tag-romania","tag-security-and-resilience-bank","tag-turkey","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}