Allianz GI’s Nikolova: Ready, set, accelerate, DeFi and impact credit in 2025

Katharine Morton

Head of Export, Project and Development Finance

If 2024 was the year of development banks and institutional investors getting to know each other better, Nadia Nikolova, managing director, lead portfolio manager development finance and impact credit at Allianz Global Investors, hopes that DFI/MDBs and private finance will improve collaboration and mobilise more ‘catalytic’ capital in 2025. There are headwinds, so it's not an easy race.

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