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...
Despite DFI emerging markets support, global project finance deal flow has skewed heavily in favour of high-income countries over the last two decades, and the gap...
The landmark, and heavily DFI-backed, Monsoon Wind transaction in Laos provides a foundation for further international bank involvement in this fledgling sector. But...
Are all project finance loans requiring of the same level of ESG due diligence? Arguably not if a recent report by Moody’s has got its numbers right.
Two-part series with Investisseurs et Partenaires (I&P) and Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA).
Two-part series with Investisseurs et Partenaires (I&P) and Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA).
Ope Onibokun, Investment Director for Infrastructure & Climate at British International Investment (BII), discusses the similarities and differences of operating in...
At its first global event, Uxolo welcomed DFIs, MDBs, commercial investors, impact investors, pensions funds, and asset managers to The Hague for a full day of...
The Sao Paulo Linha 6/Laranja scheme is a pathfinder deal that exhibits BNDES’ new mantra on infrastructure investment, turns typical financing under a DFI umbrella on...
Coherent global greenwashing regulation and ESG transparency is as much a problem for the private sector as development finance if the two are to complement each other in...
Carey Bohjanen, founder of the Rallying Cry Initiative – in partnership with Dutch development bank FMO – and MD of Sustainable Finance Advisory, outlines how she engages...
In the second part of the inaugural Uxolo Awards we look at the best DFI-backed infrastructure deals of 2021 - projects and funding that are key to wider economic...
Rodney Gollo, Head of Risk at Bupa Asia Limited, explains how SDG 3s bid to lower global health disparities in emerging markets requires investment into broader systemic...
Professor Nicholas Biekpe, Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Development Finance at The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business speaks with Uxolo on how...
Tara Sabre Collier, team leader at MOBILIST, the UK's flagship green investment programme for developing economies, speaks with Uxolo about driving ESG investments in...
Taiwo Adenji, senior director, portfolio management and optimisation, Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) speaks with Uxolo about the efforts for just transition in the...
Uxolo sat down with Dr Olaf Weber, University Research Chair in Sustainable Finance at Canada’s University of Waterloo, to discuss the climate finance outcomes of last...
The EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme continues its success and in no small measure that is down to its team. Kamola Makhmudova reflects on her decade as lead banker of...
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...
A €95 million financing will provide funding for 38 energy efficiency and social infrastructure projects across Barcelona, including helping to expand the city’s...
Low-income household energy projects in Africa are increasingly being financed via securitisation structures. The deals are relatively small, but the impact could prove as significant as new large-scale generation projects.