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12 May 2025

Uxolo talk: AIIB’s Nardelli on its debut HK dollar bond

At the headquarters of the AIIB in Beijing, Uxolo spoke with Domenico Nardelli, Treasurer at AIIB, to outline the MDB’s recent inaugural HK$4 billion ($514 million)...

06 May 2025

20 minutes with: Faruq Muhammad, Standard Chartered

Uxolo speaks with Faruq Muhammad, Global Head, Development & Agency Finance at Standard Chartered Bank, guiding listeners through candid conversations on the bank’s role...

01 May 2025
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Finance and other, IT and telecoms, Mining, Renewable energy

How will Trump's tariffs impact projects and US agencies?

The greatest impact of the second Trump administration is likely to be through its application of tariffs on global trade flows. But its impacts on project pipelines and...

10 April 2025

EIB taps inaugural EU Green Bond

The EIB has raised its first bond aligned with the EU Green Bond Standard in a bid to provide a template for other developments banks to follow suit. But is the issuance...

07 April 2025

20 mins with: Bart Raemaekers, ADB

Uxolo speaks with Bart Raemaekers Head of Syndications & Concessional Financings at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) 'the climate bank of Asia'; delving into the...

28 March 2025

Call for cash: How will the AFSM work?

African heads of state approved the establishment of a continental stability fund last month, the Africa Financing Stability Mechanism (AFSM). But how will it differ from...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...