The Ukraine conflict has pushed European governments to revisit the use of PPP structures to procure defence infrastructure. The Rūdninkai project demonstrates that the...
The €207 million Amber Dragon Ukraine Infrastructure Fund I (ADUIF 1) reached first close in late May. For Dominykas Tuckus, Ukraine fund lead and managing director at...
Ukraine is no longer waiting for peace to finance its recovery. But generous terms, layered guarantees, war-risk cover, fund anchors and public balance sheets are taking...
The refinancing for Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport combines long-dated institutional capital, a DFI anchor commitment and flexible bank funding. Where asset quality,...
Tanzania’s latest standard gauge railway financing shows that African transport corridors can access global liquidity. But only when sovereign risk, export credit, MDB...
Biovac’s EU-backed quasi-equity package and Brazil’s planned $1.2 billion vaccine PPP suggest that life-sciences are increasingly viewed as social infrastructure. But...
Imperative’s second-phase spekboom project combines a four-investor carbon financing, a 14-year World Bank outcome bond and long-term offtake with Amazon. It points...
The €65 million Poro Power green bond offers a faster alternative to conventional DFI-led project finance for African renewables. But the template still depends on...
Panama’s Metro Line 3 and Ruta del Este financings rely on strikingly different risk and revenue models. But together, they suggest that after a subdued spell, one of...
DFIs are increasingly turning to funds to deploy their capital, with the product increasingly rivalling project finance structures. But the benefits in scale and risk...
Nigeria is starting to build robust channels for attracting institutional debt capital – both foreign and domestic - into infrastructure assets. But this expanded toolkit...
The Dorjilung hydroelectric financing moved away from sovereign-backed debt towards a blended PPP structure combining concessional capital, multilateral lending and...
When is a DFI preferred creditor not a preferred creditor? A messy restructuring and a ratings downgrade for Afreximbank could hammer smaller development banks’ cost of...
Zambia’s Ilute solar project reached financial close without a sovereign guarantee, using a layered capital structure to absorb merchant price risk. It provides a...
Rising construction costs and demand are putting a strain on the economics of social housing projects. According to the Council of Europe Development Bank’s head of...
The world’s multilateral development banks provided a record $137 billion in climate finance in 2024. But backsliding from key governments may put 2030 climate targets at...
COP26 featured renewed pledges to deliver on past undelivered financial promises, spawned a number of new grand support schemes and turned up the volume on calls for the...
While impact investors are driving the plant-based meats industry, what might be the effect on livelihoods and the emerging markets, and are public financial institutions...
Following the $675 million first close of CI2, Uxolo caught up with Climate Fund Managers’ George Beukering to find how the new blended finance investment vehicle has...
Debuting a novel ‘step-down’ clause, Bank of China's recent $300 million notes offering looks to introduce sustainability-linked loans to the clout of the global bond...
The first half of 2026 posted a modest improvement on the same period in 2025. But the DFIs and MDBs that drove that recovery were more responsive to the needs of sovereigns than private debt and equity markets.