Dutch development bank FMO has financed Jordan-based liwwa, a start-up that offers finance to small and medium-sized enterprises through its digital lending marketplace. liwwa aims to improve access to finance for entrepreneurs in Jordan and the Middle East and Northern African region.
Biovac’s EU-backed quasi-equity package and Brazil’s planned $1.2 billion vaccine PPP suggest that life-sciences are increasingly viewed as social infrastructure. But even...
Tanzania’s latest standard gauge railway financing shows that African transport corridors can access global liquidity. But only when sovereign risk, export credit, MDB...
Ángela Pérez, CEO and chair at COFIDES, spoke to Uxolo at the lill Global Symposium 2026 in Oxford. Here she talks risk-sharing and catalysing private capital in the development finance industry.
Biovac’s EU-backed quasi-equity package and Brazil’s planned $1.2 billion vaccine PPP suggest that life-sciences are increasingly viewed as social infrastructure. But even vaccine sovereignty is hard to bank without public risk-sharing, demand visibility and unusually credible developers.
Tanzania’s latest standard gauge railway financing shows that African transport corridors can access global liquidity. But only when sovereign risk, export credit, MDB guarantees, Chinese cover and E&S machinery are assembled into a highly bespoke structure.
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