Today’s Exile is Beatriz Perez Perazzo, Managing Director of the Latin American Portfolio at Global Recovery Group.
Argentina has secured a major investment programme with the support of the World Bank, the IMF and the IDB. This is a step on from the economic crisis that engulfed the...
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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...
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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...
As Uzbekistan looks to meet growing gas demand while phasing out inefficient Soviet-era power facilities, a DFI/ECA-backed financing for the 1.6GW Surkhandarya CCGT...
If 2024 was the year of development banks and institutional investors getting to know each other better, Nadia Nikolova, managing director, lead portfolio manager...
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...
Argentina has secured a major investment programme with the support of the World Bank, the IMF and the IDB. This is a step on from the economic crisis that engulfed the country in 2023, but prospects are still precarious. What role will development finance have amid President Milei’s government reforms, and to what extent will critical minerals and geopolitics be at play?