AIIB diversifies funding mix with HK dollar bond
The AIIB tapped the public Hong Kong dollar bond market for a landmark HK$4 billion ($514 million) three-year issue as the Beijing-based MDB adds another instrument to...
The AIIB tapped the public Hong Kong dollar bond market for a landmark HK$4 billion ($514 million) three-year issue as the Beijing-based MDB adds another instrument to...
The Defence, Security and Resilience (DSR) Bank could answer Nato members’ defence spending needs, particularly in EU states. But what would such a bank modelled on MDBs...
Uxolo spoke with Manfred Schepers, CEO at ILX Fund to discuss how its MDB-backed portfolio is yielding credit margin returns of 4% for its broad church of investors, 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...
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...
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...
Trade financiers are taking a more conservative approach to lending to the increasingly volatile agri sector in Africa. But is the heightened African risk perception...
With fairly minimal DFI support from the EIB and NIB, H2 Green Steel (H2GS) pulled off one of the most significant pathfinder project financings of 2023 - the world’s...
The importance of digital infrastructure cannot be underestimated: a community connected to the internet generates jobs, security, and economic growth. Telecoms providers...
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...
Brazil's new infrastructure law has been broadly welcomed by the project finance market. In addition to providing stimulus for a wider infrastructure investor base, the...
Cabei’s new president doesn’t believe in coincidence and believes her private sector career has readied her to lead central America’s development bank. The timing of her...
Impact investment and blended finance – both key strategies in attracting private sector funding into energy transition, particularly in developing markets. So how to...
Impact investment and blended finance – both key strategies in attracting private sector funding into energy transition, particularly in developing markets. So how to...
Acre Impact Capital previewed the launch of its Export Finance Funds at TXF & Uxolo’s Global Conference 2023 in Lisbon. The first-of-its-kind strategy plans to bring...
ADB had another successful year in 2022, signing off on several financial firsts for the multilateral. Uxolo outlines some of the landmark deals of 2022, and hears from...
There are confusing signals about what the role of BNDES will be under the new Lula administration. Will the bank continue to stimulate more private sector funding for...
The financings, grants and guarantees that punched above their weight in 2022. Uxolo picks the winners and looks at why they’ll have a big impact.
In 2022, Chile and Uruguay became the first sovereigns to issue sustainability-linked bonds. Through step-ups and step-downs, and with the help of IDB, the two countries...
Join Slav Gatchev, Managing Director of Sustainable Debt at The Nature Conservancy, as he details the organisation's efforts to tackle the triple crisis affecting...
African heads of state approved the establishment of a continental stability fund last month, the Africa Financing Stability Mechanism (AFSM). But how will it differ from such mechanisms in other regions?