Defence has emerged as a priority sector in the export and development finance communities, though the legal and compliance considerations should not be ignored. By Mark...
The Argentinian renewables generator deftly navigated domestic instability in pricing its second green bond. But DFI support from FMO and Proparco was a vital help in...
The EDFI Management Company emerged from the Global Gateway Forum with three new mandates. The new facilities highlight the European Union’s shift away from grants and...
The political backdrop is hardly promising. But NADBank’s increased focus on water comes at just the right time.
High quality carbon markets can be used to support non-recourse debt for large-scale afforestation projects.
The greatest impact of the second Trump administration is likely to be through its application of tariffs on global trade flows. But its impacts on project pipelines and...
Uxolo's awards recognise innovation and effort in putting development capital to work, but also the strides that DFIs, MDBs and impact investors have made in raising that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Lobito Corridor Railway project is progressing, with more than enough funding raised for its initial needs. But questions still remain over whether DFIs should be...
A new study of World Bank trade finance activity glosses over ten years of market evolution.
A review of the IFC’s scaling solar initiative, and what it says about the African project finance market.
Despite DFI emerging markets support, global project finance deal flow has skewed heavily in favour of high-income countries over the last two decades, and the gap...
The recent ACEN ETM to retire the South Luzon coal-fired plant early attracted some controversy over its use of the ETM moniker. But the deal is more promising than was...
Size is not everything in development finance – small transactions can be as, if not more, impactful when they are pathfinders to new markets and asset classes, or...
The logic of DFI exit mobilisation theory is sound. So why isn’t it happening in a big way in Africa and what are the issues stopping the concept delivering on its...
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 Latin America’s most lender-friendly infrastructure markets is getting up to speed again.