The Lobito Corridor Railway project is progressing, with more than enough funding raised for its initial needs. But questions still remain over whether DFIs should be...
Africa pays a premium for its debt that in many instances it should not. Why the onerous debt costs? And what can be done about it without major systemic change?
Trade financiers are taking a more conservative approach to lending to the increasingly volatile agri sector in Africa. But is the heightened African risk perception...
Uxolo looks at the way different financial institutions are approaching the crossovers between export, project and development finance in their stated efforts to finance...
With fairly minimal DFI support from the EIB and NIB, H2 Green Steel (H2GS) pulled off one of the most significant pathfinder project financings of 2023 - the world’s...
The importance of digital infrastructure cannot be underestimated: a community connected to the internet generates jobs, security, and economic growth. Telecoms providers...
Guarantees demonstrably catalyse private capital mobilisation in emerging markets. So why do MDBs use them so sparingly? The problem is institutional incompatibility.
Tanzania tapped its first ever green bond in 2023 and laid a seedbed for this year's even bigger green issue, and its first municipal bond. The notes are viable routes to...
The billions to trillions narrative which the development finance network has based its private capital mobilisation aspirations on since 2015 is on shaky ground because,...
New Development Bank (NDB) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) were both set up almost a decade ago – 2015 and 2016, respectively. As their first decade...
Given the urgency of energy transition related projects, DFI direct lending to project and export finance deals has risen significantly in recent years – but it is still...
All roads out of a successful development project should lead to better resilience. But financing resilience per se is difficult given it cannot be easily measured....
Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) can be more flexible than traditional green debt and are well-suited to the long-term, outcome-oriented, carefully structured KPIs that...
Could the recent rapid growth in untied ECA lending make collaboration with DFIs and MDBs easier in the future?
After a year's research, ODI has released six papers detailing the legal, policy, budgetary, stress, risk, and financial implications of MDB callable capital – research...
Against the backdrop of an increasingly risky economic climate and growing demand from borrowers, the development finance sector continues to push the boundaries on...
The long-hoped-for first report on recovery rates from the Global Emerging Markets Risk Database (GEMs) consortium was published last month, and quickly followed by...
Synthetic securitisations, risk transfers, programmatic approaches – the MDB toolkit is growing. But, as voiced by attendees and speakers at the recent Texel DevFIns...
Climate change grabs the global headlines but it is not the only major issue facing the nations of the Caribbean. Isaac Solomon, Acting President of the Caribbean...
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...
At the headquarters of the AIIB in Beijing, Uxolo spoke with Domenico Nardelli, Treasurer at AIIB, to outline the MDB’s recent inaugural HK$4 billion ($514 million) three-year public Hong Kong dollar bond market issue – known as the ‘wonton’ bond – as it adds another instrument to its financial toolkit.