FMO and Proparco’s seven-year loan to Pakistani electricity provider K-Electric to finance the upgrade of its transmission system is arguably the replicable bankable...
Gustavo Montezano, President of BNDES, is putting ESG at the heart of the development bank's financing strategy. The policy has refocused the bank on its original core...
As the UN-led Net Zero Banking Alliance completes a year, UNEP FI Program Officer for Climate Remco Fischer speaks with Uxolo about the need for granularity in climate...
Commercial banks are increasingly looking at blended finance to push marginally bankable deals over the fence — but hurdles of transparency, a limited pipeline of deals...
George Nijborg, senior portfolio manager at Aegon Asset Management speaks with Uxolo about the key learning from collaborating with MDBs and DFIs
Nadia Nikolova, lead portfolio manager, AllianzGI Development Finance, speaks with Uxolo about her learnings from working with development banks.
Indigenous groups are best placed to protect the rainforests – but how best to finance these communities is a point of contention. Well-meaning and well-financed NGOs...
Learning from their experience of supporting Syrian refugees in 2015, Germany’s KfW has swiftly replicated the financial model to house Ukrainian refugees.
In a series of profiles on DFI-backed deals that rarely grab the headlines, Uxolo spotlights ADB’s $68 million loan to improve financial access to affordable green...
From the balance sheet to the boardroom, the implications for some DFIs and supranationals from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are more than just indirect hits from...
Since the country's financial meltdown, project finance lending in Greece has slowly made a comeback in tandem with DFI support for a growing renewable energy and PPP...
The FMO and TCX-issued bond aims to transfer currency risk from solar energy investments to Western investors.
Associate Principal, Private, Alternative & Impact Investments at Fondaction, Pierre-Laurent Macridis, speaks to Uxolo about impact investing in Quebec, their funds, and...
With their values aligned with SDGs, faith-based investors are looking to climate finance and social impact projects, while keeping their risk low and returns steady.
Although the Uzbek wind sector is still in its infancy, a host of recent legislative reforms, and the first project tendered under those reforms, could spur an...
With an investment from Netherland’s largest pension fund manager APG, Amsterdam-based fund management group ILX has launched an emerging market focused private credit...
Natalie de Wit-Solounov, head of financial institutions debt Asia/EMECA, DEG, speaks with Uxolo about the significance of gender-focused projects for the growth of...
While impact investors are driving the plant-based meats industry, what might be the effect on livelihoods and the emerging markets, and are public financial institutions...
Egypt's Canal Sugar deal, closed toward the end of last year, incorporates both multi-sourced and multi-currency debt, achieving the blend via an innovative use of...
Uxolo speaks with Christian Deseglise, Head of Sustainable Finance at HSBC about his reactions to COP26 in Glasgow, and how commercial banks are working with development...
Africa benefits from large untapped pools of capital in the shape of savings - but infrastructure projects struggle to tap it. A new generation of donor- and DFI-led credit distribution mechanisms are designed to improve that funding process.