AfDB's highly anticipated $750 million 10.5-year perpetual non-call venture into hybrid capital has not only established a promising benchmark, but has also signalled...
Loss and damage caused by climate change was finally operationalised into a proper fund at COP28 last November. But how do you raise $400 billion of humanitarian...
DFI support mechanisms have tended to focus on the project-specific micro premium in cost of capital. But a report for the Climate Policy Initiative by Avinash Persaud...
Some of the most ambitious innovations in international development finance – from callable capital to rechannelling SDRs to forex risk exchange programmes – are being...
One of the most important elements of the Capital Adequacy Framework (CAF) conversation is how MDBs are actually going to scale up private capital mobilisation. At the...
MDBs are being tasked to push the boundaries on balance sheet conservativeness, but the level of impact this could have on their triple-A ratings is uncertain. Credit...
2023 was the year of innovation for development finance, circled by the ongoing discussion around the G20 Capital Adequacy Framework (CAF) report and how MDBs can be...
Dive into some of the key highlights from Uxolo’s development finance report, assessing the market’s concerns and focuses amidst a landscape of growing investor caution.
Experience is as influential a shaper of development finance policy as data, and this year's edition of Uxolo's Development Finance Report carries more canvassed...
Plenty has been prophesied already about the budding relationship between credit and political risk insurers (CPRI) and development finance lenders, particularly as CPRI...
British International Investment's (BII) Investment Director and Head of Intermediated Credit , Jo Fry, sits down with Uxolo to discuss the potential of private credit...
MDB callable capital represents an eye-watering $1.2 trillion in nominal terms, although it has yet to be properly quantified or harnessed. ODI, with funding from the MDB...
ADB’s ETM and the $20 billion I-JETP initiative are currently negotiating the ambitious task of retiring Indonesia’s young fleet of coal-fired power plants. While the...
The latest round of IFC’s Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program (MCPP) has raised a landmark $3.5 billion from 13 credit insurers. Not only has the operation increased...
The Africa Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI) has secured $650 million of commitments for future carbon credits at the inaugural Africa Climate Summit. And given Africa’s...
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...
Financing the $170 billion African infrastructure gap using domestic capital pools isn’t quite a pie in the sky – there are several financing tools that are already...
Of the World Bank Group’s lending arms, IBRD, IFC, and MIGA are familiar names to most financiers. But IDA is less often in the press, despite its critical development...
Acre Impact Capital previewed the launch of its Export Finance Funds at TXF & Uxolo’s Global Conference 2023 in Lisbon. The first-of-its-kind strategy plans to bring...
The data revolution could be a relatively cheap and key driver for accelerating African development and finance across multiple sectors. But first it needs digital...
If the long end of the bond market were a dinner party, right now you’d hear a lot of awkward coughs and clinking ice as uncertainty grows and term premiums rise. Meanwhile, MDBs have pivoted to shorter liabilities with less execution risk and tighter pricing.