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14 March 2025

Sida’s Forsberg: On piecing together connections and facilitating Asia climate adaptation

Kjell Forsberg explains the strengthening of the ‘team Sweden’ development offering under his new role heading up a new department of trade, private sector and financial...

04 March 2025

AIIB diversifies funding mix with HK dollar bond

The AIIB tapped the public Hong Kong dollar bond market for a landmark HK$4 billion ($514 million) three-year issue as the Beijing-based MDB adds another instrument to...

03 March 2025
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Climate finance, Social projects

Uxolo Development Finance Pathfinder Awards 2024: Raise up

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...

28 February 2025
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Finance and other, Manufacturing

DSR Bank: An MDB-style bank for defence spending

The Defence, Security and Resilience (DSR) Bank could answer Nato members’ defence spending needs, particularly in EU states. But what would such a bank modelled on MDBs...

21 February 2025
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Climate finance, Renewable energy, Social projects

20 mins with: Manfred Schepers, ILX Fund

Uxolo spoke with Manfred Schepers, CEO at ILX Fund to discuss how its MDB-backed portfolio is yielding credit margin returns of 4% for its broad church of investors, and...

14 February 2025
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Mining

ESG disclosures have become a de facto requirement in Zimbabwe

Disclosures on a business’ operations and risks in environmental stewardship, social responsibility and corporate governance play an important part in how it is seen by...

31 January 2025
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Renewable energy, Traditional energy

A tight financing window for Indonesia’s 2040 coal deadline

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...

24 January 2025
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Renewable energy

SAFCO's solution to the SAF green premium

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...

22 January 2025
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Traditional energy

Uzbek CCGTs: Efficiently gassed

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...

17 January 2025

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

If 2024 was the year of development banks and institutional investors getting to know each other better, Nadia Nikolova, managing director, lead portfolio manager...

10 January 2025
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Manufacturing, Renewable energy, Social infrastructure

Mobilising private debt for Asian infrastructure

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...

03 January 2025

2024: Development finance trends

MDBs and DFIs have sharpened their product suites in their bid mobilise private capital and realise the race to net zero emissions. But what were the standout innovations...

20 December 2024
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Renewable energy

Azerbaijan's gradual conversion to renewables

With 1.2GW of wind and solar projects now financed, Azerbaijan has made substantial progress in procuring renewables projects. A consistent project pipeline will be...

13 December 2024
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Waste and water

Rio Cobre: Tapping long tenor DFI debt

The financing backing the Rio Cobre water treatment plant in Jamaica has signed. Project sponsors tapped heavy DFI support to push out the tenor envelope to 20 years,...

06 December 2024

Swedfund’s Aglert on ringing more bells for DFI investments in Africa

Uxolo finds Marie Aglert, chief investment officer and head of investment organisation at Swedfund, in a buoyant mood. With a recent capital boost and new offices opening...

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...