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02 March 2022
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Agriculture/food chain, Finance and other, Health/education programmes, IT and telecoms, Manufacturing, Mining, Renewable energy, Social infrastructure, Social projects, Traditional energy, Waste and water

DFI cooperation: a future casualty of war?

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...

News
01 March 2022
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Agriculture/food chain, Finance and other, IT and telecoms, Manufacturing, Mining, Renewable energy, Social infrastructure, Social projects, Traditional energy, Waste and water

Moody’s reviews EDB ratings for downgrade

Credit rating agency Moody's has today placed the Baa1 long-term and P-2 short-term issuer ratings of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) on review for downgrade....

Perspective
18 February 2022

Fondaction's Pierre-Laurent Macridis on impact investing in Canada

Associate Principal, Private, Alternative & Impact Investments at Fondaction, Pierre-Laurent Macridis, speaks to Uxolo about impact investing in Quebec, their funds, and...

News
11 February 2022

ADF signs grant agreement for Malawi financial digitalization initiative

The African Development Fund and the government of Malawi have signed a grant agreement for $14.2 million to undertake infrastructure upgrades and create a more efficient...

Perspective
03 February 2022
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Renewable energy

A change of Uzbek wind speed and direction?

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...

Perspective
28 January 2022

Mobilising capital for emerging markets in a new way

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...

Perspective
28 January 2022

DEG's Natalie de Wit-Solounov on gender lens in development finance

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...

Perspective
20 January 2022
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Agriculture/food chain

How do we finance dietary transition?

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...

Perspective
11 January 2022

FMO's Jorim Schraven on biodiversity and the financial sector

Uxolo speaks with Jorim Schraven, the director of impact and ESG department at FMO, a Dutch development bank, about the significance of biodiversity and nature-positive...

Perspective
23 December 2021

HSBC's Christian Deseglise on commercially financing Net Zero

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...

Perspective
14 December 2021

Bigger and bolder: Inside Climate Investor 2

Following the $675 million first close of CI2, Uxolo caught up with Climate Fund Managers’ George Beukering to find how the new blended finance investment vehicle has...

News
13 December 2021
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Mining, Traditional energy

Biden orders US to stop financing new carbon-intense projects abroad

The Biden administration has ordered US government agencies to immediately stop financing new carbon-intensive fossil fuel projects overseas and prioritize global...

Perspective
09 December 2021

Uxolo Development Finance Report: Top five takeaways

By combining our inhouse project database, survey results and interviews, Uxolo’s Develpment Finance Report provides the most comprehensive landscape to date of what...

News
06 December 2021
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Social infrastructure

EIB finances new trolleybuses for Sarajevo

The Ministry of Transport of the Canton of Sarajevo signed a contract with BKM Holding to procure ten additional trolleybuses - in addition to 25 already purchase - to...

News
03 December 2021
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Waste and water

USAID lends Ghana $45m for water, sanitation project

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has agreed $45.5 million in funding to Ghana to implement a five-year water and sanitation project in the north of the...

News
03 December 2021
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Agriculture/food chain, Social infrastructure, Waste and water

IADB unveils details of $1.65bn in new loans

The Inter-American Development Bank has approved eight operations totaling $1.65 billion for Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, and Uruguay.In Argentina, the...

Perspective
26 November 2021

Adaptation finance steps out of the shadows

Flying under the radar at the recent COP26 summit, finance for climate adaptation is finally receiving its due attention in the climate-action agenda.

Perspective
25 November 2021

AIIB's Benny Zachariah on the bank's climate ambitions

Benny Zachariah, investment officer – financial institutions and syndications, speaks with Uxolo about the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank's plans to be Paris aligned...

News
24 November 2021
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Social infrastructure

AFD joins financing for Ucyol-Buca metro project

Turkey's Izmir Metropolitan Municipality has signed a €125 million (about $140 million) loan deal with Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) for the Ucyol-Buca...

News
24 November 2021

Proparco helps Ipak Yuli Bank support Uzbek MSMEs

France's Proparco has agreed a $30 million multi-currency senior credit line - available in USD or in Uzbek soum -  to support Ipak Yuli Bank in strengthening...