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04 March 2025

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...

28 February 2025
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Finance and other, Manufacturing

DSR Bank: An MDB-style bank for defence spending

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...

21 February 2025
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Climate finance, Renewable energy, Social projects

20 mins with: Manfred Schepers, ILX Fund

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...

24 January 2025
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Renewable energy

SAFCO's solution to the SAF green premium

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...

10 January 2025
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Manufacturing, Renewable energy, Social infrastructure

Mobilising private debt for Asian infrastructure

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...

10 October 2024

IDB Invest’s Alvarenga talks change – all $3.5bn of it

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...

08 August 2024
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Agriculture/food chain

Africa agri trade: Are lenders’ risk perceptions misplaced?

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...

02 August 2024

Uxolo Athens: H2 Green Steel's Zinsser on overcoming project complexities

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...

26 July 2024
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IT and telecoms

Sonatel’s securitisation: Connecting local investors and telecoms

The importance of digital infrastructure cannot be underestimated: a community connected to the internet generates jobs, security, and economic growth. Telecoms providers...

07 May 2024

Shona Tatchell: EBRD's new head of trade facilitation on digitalisation and sustainability

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...

28 February 2024
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Finance and other

New Brazilian infra law calms fears of BNDES expansion

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...

02 February 2024
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Finance and other

Sanchez sworn to reform

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...

30 October 2023

Impact finance – the secret to scale is in the blend (part two)

Impact investment and blended finance – both key strategies in attracting private sector funding into energy transition, particularly in developing markets. So how to...

22 August 2023

Impact finance – the secret to scale is in the blend (part one)

Impact investment and blended finance – both key strategies in attracting private sector funding into energy transition, particularly in developing markets. So how to...

10 August 2023

From idea to reality: Acre’s Export Finance Funds

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...

27 July 2023

Uxolo Global 2023: Looking back on a year of landmarks with ADB

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...

05 April 2023

Lula’s interest rate fight will decide future role for BNDES

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...

03 April 2023

Uxolo Pathfinder Awards 2022: Small can be beautiful

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.

09 March 2023
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Climate finance

Sovereign SLBs: Capitalising on NDCs

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...

08 February 2023
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Climate finance

Illuminating the way to sustainability: TNC's debt-to-nature conversions

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...