Exiled: Jorge Barrigh, Heifer Impact Capital
Today’s Exile is Jorge Barrigh, Regional Director at Heifer Impact Capital. Jorge’s career has been defined by construction - whether that’s building engineering...
Today’s Exile is Jorge Barrigh, Regional Director at Heifer Impact Capital. Jorge’s career has been defined by construction - whether that’s building engineering...
DFIs need to look beyond their comfort zones by working more proactively in the world’s lowest income countries. Their support for transition technologies in high-income...
Equinor and Polenergia have closed a landmark project financing for Baltyk 2&3 amid a flurry of activity in the offshore wind sector. Poland has big ambitions to...
Latin American's CAF made headlines with its $500 million perpetual non-call 5.5-year hybrid this month. The entry of hybrid capital is the latest in a line of...
Scaling up the mobilisation of private capital will need greater cooperation between DFIs, ECAs, and financial institutions, as well as product innovation. But there is a...
Hrvoje Čuvalo, President of the Management Board of the Croatian Bank of Reconstruction and Development, HBOR, and host of the Berne Union’s Spring Meeting in Dubrovnik,...
In today's episode, Signe Kolby Sørensen, Director of Strategy & Impact at Norfund, discusses investment strategies aligned with impactful development. She highlights...
If the long end of the bond market were a dinner party, right now you’d hear a lot of awkward coughs and clinking ice as uncertainty grows and term premiums rise....
Today’s guest is Silvia Gavornikova, Head of Export Credits and Competition Division at the OECD. With over 20 years of experience in export finance - as well as some...
Since 2023, the IFC's securitisation has become a flagship strategy and now the EBRD is committed to realising its first synthetic risk transfer (SRT) by year-end. But in...
Cooperation, transparency and governance are not new buzzwords in the development, export and project finance space. These words echo like a mantra through an editorial...
International banks are yet to participate in a financing under the ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). But a financial blueprint for the phasing out of the Cirebon...
At the headquarters of the AIIB in Beijing, Uxolo spoke with Domenico Nardelli, Treasurer at AIIB, to outline the MDB’s recent inaugural HK$4 billion ($514 million)...
Uxolo speaks with Faruq Muhammad, Global Head, Development & Agency Finance at Standard Chartered Bank, guiding listeners through candid conversations on the bank’s role...
The greatest impact of the second Trump administration is likely to be through its application of tariffs on global trade flows. But its impacts on project pipelines and...
IFC has extended $300 million to Pakistan’s Reko Diq copper-gold mine. This could suggest that DFIs are expanding their support for the minerals industry as demand ramps...
Today’s Exile is Beatriz Perez Perazzo, Managing Director of the Latin American Portfolio at Global Recovery Group.
Argentina has secured a major investment programme with the support of the World Bank, the IMF and the IDB. This is a step on from the economic crisis that engulfed the...
Today’s Exile is Ayodeji (DJ) Olaifa, Vice President, Senior Business Development Officer at KfW IPEX Bank. A seasoned financier, storyteller, and self-professed...
The EIB has raised its first bond aligned with the EU Green Bond Standard in a bid to provide a template for other developments banks to follow suit. But is the issuance...
DFIs need to look beyond their comfort zones by working more proactively in the world’s lowest income countries. Their support for transition technologies in high-income markets suggests they should be able to adapt.