Disclosures on a business’ operations and risks in environmental stewardship, social responsibility and corporate governance play an important part in how it is seen by...
Indonesia will need to seriously pick up the pace of both renewables and coal retirement financing to meet a 2040 coal phase-out ambition. A lacklustre and...
SAF projects are complex to finance, with short offtake contracts and high prices often deterring project finance lenders. SAFCO Ventures has lowered costs to secure a...
As Uzbekistan looks to meet growing gas demand while phasing out inefficient Soviet-era power facilities, a DFI/ECA-backed financing for the 1.6GW Surkhandarya CCGT...
If 2024 was the year of development banks and institutional investors getting to know each other better, Nadia Nikolova, managing director, lead portfolio manager...
Asia has traditionally lagged behind the rest of the world in the use of project finance for energy and infrastructure assets. Could securitisation and private credit...
MDBs and DFIs have sharpened their product suites in their bid mobilise private capital and realise the race to net zero emissions. But what were the standout innovations...
With 1.2GW of wind and solar projects now financed, Azerbaijan has made substantial progress in procuring renewables projects. A consistent project pipeline will be...
The financing backing the Rio Cobre water treatment plant in Jamaica has signed. Project sponsors tapped heavy DFI support to push out the tenor envelope to 20 years,...
Uxolo finds Marie Aglert, chief investment officer and head of investment organisation at Swedfund, in a buoyant mood. With a recent capital boost and new offices opening...
Every article should have a call to action in the 'standfirst'. It's particularly tough to do that on an obituary for a much loved friend and colleague. Perhaps an...
Donald Trump might be an avowed America-first politician, and might have a deep suspicion of multilateral geopolitics. But his first term saw the creation of a powerhouse...
Colombia’s Petro administration has not shown much enthusiasm for concession-based road financings. But the financing record of the last two years suggests that its...
Jackie B Surtani, regional director, head of ADB Singapore Office, talks about the ADB’s toolbox for meeting its climate finance goals, and how it, like other MDBs, plans...
Europe’s gigafactory bubble is bursting with battery makers Northvolt and ACC halting schemes amid waning demand for EVs. With project sponsors reviewing business models,...
It has been a year since Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) set up a development finance operation. Hwang Kiyeon, senior executive director and board member at Kexim,...
Lila Granda talks strategy in her first interview since her appointment as head of political risk & credit at Vantage Risk. How does the company work with MDBs and DFIs?...
The pipeline of repeat and debut debt-for-nature swaps is ballooning – a signal that the growth and deal size the market needs for significant environmental impact could...
Marisela Alvarenga, chief investment officer, Latin America and the Caribbean, at IDB Invest explains how the organisation’s recent $3.5 billion capital increase and its...
The latest World Bank outcome bond – the $225 million nine-year Amazon Reforestation-Linked Bond – is the biggest to date and yet another first. But can these highly...
Disclosures on a business’ operations and risks in environmental stewardship, social responsibility and corporate governance play an important part in how it is seen by investors, customers and clients. RSK’s Africa ESG Director Mark Gibson explains how mining houses can leverage their alignment with ESG standards for an advantage in business and investment.