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02 December 2024

Celebrating Sean Keating: ‘A bashed out obit’ for TXF, Proximo and Uxolo

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...

02 December 2024
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Climate finance, Renewable energy, Social projects

The US DFC meets its maker - again

Donald Trump might be an avowed America-first politician, and might have a deep suspicion of multilateral geopolitics. But his first term saw the creation of a powerhouse...

22 November 2024
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Climate finance, Social infrastructure, Social projects

Gaboury on the ADB's largest ever deal pipeline

Uxolo spoke with Suzanne Gaboury, ADB's director general for private sector operations to outline the DFI's largest deal pipeline to date, and the importance of speeding...

15 November 2024
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Social infrastructure

Colombian infrastructure: Slow lane, not dead end

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...

11 November 2024
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Climate finance, Finance and other, Mining, Renewable energy

ADB’s Surtani on using the tools for climate mitigation and finance in Asia

Jackie B Surtani, regional director, head of ADB Singapore Office, talks about the ADB’s toolbox for meeting its climate finance goals, and how it, like other MDBs, plans...

04 November 2024

TXF, Proximo and Uxolo mourn the loss of Sean Keating

Exile Group is devastated to announce the death of our editor, Sean Keating.

01 November 2024

Euro gigafactories: Parking debt

Europe’s gigafactory bubble is bursting with battery makers Northvolt and ACC halting schemes amid waning demand for EVs. With project sponsors reviewing business models,...

25 October 2024

ECA, DFI and ODA – all under the one Kexim umbrella

It has been a year since Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) set up a development finance operation. Hwang Kiyeon, senior executive director and board member at Kexim,...

23 October 2024

Vantage Risk: Insurance with digital in its DNA

Lila Granda talks strategy in her first interview since her appointment as head of political risk & credit at Vantage Risk. How does the company work with MDBs and DFIs?...

18 October 2024
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Climate finance

Debt of a naturalist

The pipeline of repeat and debut debt-for-nature swaps is ballooning – a signal that the growth and deal size the market needs for significant environmental impact could...

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...

04 October 2024
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Climate finance

The best of all outcomes – so far

The latest World Bank outcome bond – the $225 million nine-year Amazon Reforestation-Linked Bond – is the biggest to date and yet another first. But can these highly...

27 September 2024

Acre Capital on drumming up impact dollars for Africa

Uxolo spoke with Chris Mitman, a partner at Acre Capital to find out how the fund is threading impact dollars into export finance deals, as it garners growing interest...

20 September 2024

Making sense of the numbers

Development finance volumes are down in H1 2024 according to Uxolo’s debut half-year report. But the usual annual Q4 spike in volume could yet be a game changer.

12 September 2024
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Mining

And debt shall have no dominion

ECAs, DFIs and banks to Madagascar’s Ambatovy nickel mine project financing are facing a wipeout of $1.66 billion loans under a new shareholder restructuring proposal....

06 September 2024
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Social infrastructure

Lobito Corridor: Spreading the benefit?

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...

03 September 2024
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Finance and other

Funding African development: Could it be faster, more impactful and cheaper?

Cost of debt and mobilisation of private capital for Africa – could both be done better and cheaper? It’s a $170 billion per year question according to estimates from the...

02 September 2024

Too high a price

Africa pays a premium for its debt that in many instances it should not. Why the onerous debt costs? And what can be done about it without major systemic change?

23 August 2024
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Climate finance

COP29: Will the ‘finance’ COP deliver?

At COP28 countries for the first time addressed the massive elephant in the climate room – fossil fuels, albeit in less than fierce wording. This year, in Azerbaijan,...

16 August 2024
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Climate finance

PIDG’s Valahu on CLEAR fund’s first close

Helios Investment Partners’ Climate, Energy Access, and Resilience (CLEAR) private equity fund has raised $200 million in its first close, leaving the Africa-focused fund...