DFIs bolster Africa’s Great Green Wall
At last month’s One Planet Summit for Biodiversity, the likes of the EIB, AfDB, AFD, and World Bank committed a total $14.3 billion of new climate finance to the...
At last month’s One Planet Summit for Biodiversity, the likes of the EIB, AfDB, AFD, and World Bank committed a total $14.3 billion of new climate finance to the...
After four year's of Trump's America First policies, what will be Biden’s approach to development finance? Uxolo caught up with David Baxter, a 25-year international...
A recent joint report by 27 development finance institutions shows a global push to stimulate more private finance for the SGDs has yielded a 9% year-on-year increase in...
The ADB and the IADB recently agreed a $1 billion exposure exchange agreement, but the benefits of the instrument are not always the same for the MBDs, reveals IADB’s...
The global sustainability focus of recent years has seen impact investing growth accelerate rapidly: Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) estimates the size of the...
ADB, DEG and IFC have provided a $300 million financing that will fund the recycling of 50 billion plastic bottles every year by 2025, diverting plastic waste from...
A recent €24 million venture debt financing by the EIB will support the development and testing of Atriva’s ATR-002 antiviral therapeutic. How does the deal's structure...
Over a 50-year term, klimaVest will aim to grow a €25 billion portfolio of mainly renewable-energy assets, paying investors a 3-4% annual return.
At the 14th AFD International Research Conference on Development last week, the EBRD’s Alexia Latortue drew up a five-point plan for increasing the efficacy of...
IDB Invest, which structured the bond for Colombian bank Davivienda, believes the landmark issuance will catalyse the wider gender-linked bonds market in Latin America.
Following a collaboration between FMO and The eco.business Fund, Uxolo spoke to impact asset manager Finance in Motion about the nuanced and ever evolving relationship...
The City Climate Finance Gap Fund will help cities in poorer nations develop strategies for climate-friendly growth and turn them into bankable projects.
In order to crowd-in more private sector investment, DFIs need to increase their levels of blended finance in low-income countries and provide a wider array of de-risking...
Given the vast Covid-19 relief packages they are putting together, are DFIs really in a position to play a bigger role than usual in planned infrastructure stimulus...
In late July, The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) agreed to provide a €63.2 million loan to Stuttgart’s housing association, SWSG, to increase the supply of...
A €95 million financing will provide funding for 38 energy efficiency and social infrastructure projects across Barcelona, including helping to expand the city’s...
The Almaty Ring Road (BAKAD) PPP financing is a major DFI-backed achievement for Kazakhstan. But are estimations of its impact, beyond meeting the project’s immediate...
The EIB is providing a loan to fund the roll out of 8,500 charging points across Spain. The support is the latest in a growing number of DFI-backed deals designed to...
Women and unskilled workers would see the largest wage gains from the AfCFTA agreement under discussion, which would also help of set the continent’s predicted $79bn of...
KfW has provided a €15 million grant to build four new hospitals in Iraq as the country races to add healthcare capacity before its pandemic peaks in the autumn.
The project financing backing the Baltic Power project has just signed – but the rest of the first wave of Poland’s embryonic offshore wind sector is facing delays. The country originally promised as much as 28GW by 2050 but the chances of success now look mixed due to inflation and critical cost increases.