FMO and Rabobank have each invested €10 million in the IDH Farmfit Fund, which aims to bridge the $170 billion annual credit gap of small-scale farmers in developing...
The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (Cabei) is embarking on an ambitious project to bring private equity financing to fund the region’s vital...
The European Development Bank recently signed advisory agreements with two local hydrogen associations as it looks to finance the EU’s aim to increase hydrogen to 14% of...
Uxolo talks to Renee Morgan, social justice strategist at San Francisco-based impact investor Adasina Social Capital's, about how the financial markets can be used to...
Blended finance could be a significant part of the funding solution in meeting the UN's SDGs. But to pull in private sector investment in the volume needed, and the time...
Watch the a Mayors Roundtable Meeting discussing Nature based solutions at EBRD's Green Cities in June 2021, hosted on Uxolo's Kujenga virtual event platform.
The Asian Development Bank is looking to develop 10 pilot deals for its new SDG Accelerator Bond concept by the end of 2021, and deliver the first two issuances in 2022....
A 100-mile stretch of coral reef off Mexico’s Caribbean coast is now insured just like any other valuable asset. Is this the future of conservation?
Uxolo talks to the UK’s development financier, CDC Group, about a pioneering collaboration with Holcim in Malawi that has inaugurated the world’s first 3D-printed school....
DFIs have reacted quickly and strongly to the short-term fall-out from Covid-19 on Africa – arguably quicker and more strongly than many governments. But the longer term...
The IFC and the DFC last month launched innovative financing facilities aimed at unlocking new sources of funding to address the world’s growing refugee crisis.
On June 30th, insurance brokers Texel hosted a Development Finance Insurance (DevFIns) 2021 virtual event, offering a general sentiment on the private insurance market,...
The EBRD and the IFC have provided $130 million of financing for a project aimed at upgrading the equipment, practices and labour rights of an industry infamous for its...
In 2018 the G7 development finance institutions (DFIs) made a commitment to deploy $3 billion before the end of 2020 in emerging markets private sector investments that...
Scale, capital allocation and shareholder activism were top of the agenda as panelists at a recent Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) conference discussed the best...
Sam McManus, Director at Uxolo Development Finance, talks shop with Marisela Alvarenga, Chief of the Financial Institutions Division at IDB Invest, about how the...
At the EBRD’s Green Cities Annual Conference 2021, the European development bank’s Carel Cronenberg laid out the respective benefits and drawbacks of two key green...
The report highlights opportunities for further public-private collaboration and pathways for policymakers to accelerate private climate finance ahead of COP26. Uxolo...
Sam McManus, Director at Uxolo Development Finance speaks with Kofi Asumadu Addo, Director Guarantees and Specialized Finance at Afreximbank on how after being mandated...
The $150 million IGF fund—run by and for Indigenous communities—reached first close at the end of April. The innovative Canadian social impact scheme uses public sector...
Marcos Athias Neto, UN assistant secretary general, director of Bureau for Policy and Program Support, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Şebnem Şener, head, private finance for SDGs, Sustainable Finance Hub tell Uxolo how ISO standardisation and old-fashioned products are going to help move sustainable finance forward.