Nick J. Freeman, Associate Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), considers some of the key challenges, old and new, that a post-pandemic K-shaped...
Sam McManus, Director at Uxolo Development Finance talks with Alejandro Litovsky, Founder & CEO, Earth Security on climate finance and making carbon an investable market...
In a deal that will save weeks in processing time, African development bank TDB is using blockchain technology to finance $400 million-worth of fertiliser trade finance...
Sam McManus talks to Dr. Robert Besseling, Founder and CEO of PANGEA-RISK, about the historical and existing role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), especially in...
The EU is currently considering a financial framework for European multilateral and bilateral development banks – under the EFAD umbrella. But, as Paul Mudde, consultant...
David Baxter, senior advisor to the UNECE-affiliated International Sustainable Resilience Center for PPPs (ISRC), considers the potential for PPP as an alternative source...
Sam McManus at Uxolo Development Finance talks to Hoda Moustafa, Africa Regional Head at Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) about successful solar power...
Adjuvant’s $300 million fund has assembled a wide range of development financiers and impact investors to finance new technologies that can combat public health crises...
Listen to this week's podcast where Sam McManus, Director at Uxolo Development Finance, talks with Matthew Jordan-Tank, Director, Sustainable Infrastructure Policy and...
The US’ DFI is looking to use de-risking instruments such as credit guarantees to attract diverse groups of investors into projects that use nature to combat...
CDC, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada, and BIO have all committed to the fund, which will invest across the African food value chain in order to reduce the continent’s...
March has seen a flurry of new financing commitments for off-grid renewable energy projects as DFIs look to accelerate deal flow in the fast-maturing sector.
A Pakistan-based case study led by the UK’s development finance institution, CDC Group, demonstrated the investment case for a mangrove restoration project next to a wind...
At last month’s One Planet Summit for Biodiversity, the likes of the EIB, AfDB, AFD, and World Bank committed a total $14.3 billion of new climate finance to the...
After four year's of Trump's America First policies, what will be Biden’s approach to development finance? Uxolo caught up with David Baxter, a 25-year international...
A recent joint report by 27 development finance institutions shows a global push to stimulate more private finance for the SGDs has yielded a 9% year-on-year increase in...
The ADB and the IADB recently agreed a $1 billion exposure exchange agreement, but the benefits of the instrument are not always the same for the MBDs, reveals IADB’s...
The global sustainability focus of recent years has seen impact investing growth accelerate rapidly: Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) estimates the size of the...
ADB, DEG and IFC have provided a $300 million financing that will fund the recycling of 50 billion plastic bottles every year by 2025, diverting plastic waste from...
A recent €24 million venture debt financing by the EIB will support the development and testing of Atriva’s ATR-002 antiviral therapeutic. How does the deal's structure...
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade.