The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is to extend a seven-year loan of 740 million rand ($62 million) to South Africa's Mercantile Bank to boost lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The financing was part of an initiative to invest up to 40 billion rand into South African SMEs over the next five to seven years.
Seung-Hoon Lee is now head of Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim’s) investment finance team, having recently been director of the new development finance team in the agency’s...
Rising investor confidence and a new focus on sustainability are redefining aviation finance in Africa. Thanzi Ramukosi, an investment specialist at Ninety One, which manages...
Uxolo spoke with Sebastiaan Surie, head of new ventures at Climate Fund Managers to explore how blended finance is driving climate infra investment in emerging markets, from resilient infra to green hydrogen via the combination of public and private capital.
Seung-Hoon Lee is now head of Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim’s) investment finance team, having recently been director of the new development finance team in the agency’s economic development promotion department. He discusses the agency’s new emphasis on direct equity investment in companies and project funds. How will this affect its longer term finance offering, support export credit, and also its development finance strategy?
Rising investor confidence and a new focus on sustainability are redefining aviation finance in Africa. Thanzi Ramukosi, an investment specialist at Ninety One, which manages the Emerging Africa & Asia Infrastructure Fund suggests the deal could chart a new course for small island developing states developing resilient, low-carbon infrastructure.
A one-day senior-level event launching the release of full year 2025 export, commodity, project and development finance data reports from TXF, Proximo and Uxolo.
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Full-year 2025 export, commodity, project and development finance data from TXF, Proximo and Uxolo, discussed at a senior-level, one-day event.
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