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...
Growth Investment Partners Ghana, a platform created by British International Investment has announced details of its first investment in Ghanaian Business Process...
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...
EIB has signed a €28 million loan agreement with the Swedish company Cold Lake Invest to support the company's project for the sustainable land-based farming of...
GuarantCo and Bank Alfalah have provided Shams Power with a PKR1.5 billion ($5.2 million) finance solution to support the construction of 10MW of small rooftop and ground...
Northvolt signed the largest ever non-recourse green financing deal for a battery gigafactory on 22 December 2023. At $5.07 billion all-in, the deal marks a major new...
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...
The ADB has priced $5 billion in global benchmark bonds, comprising a three-year bond worth $3 billion and a ten-year bond worth $2 billion. The proceeds will contribute...
MIGA has provided guarantees of €901 million ($973 million) to four banks - JP Morgan, Santander, Credit Agricole and ING Bank - for their loans to Serbia's...
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...
IFC and Proparco signed a risk-sharing agreement covering a package of trade finance operations worth a joint $200 million. As part of this deal, France's...
Has COP28 really delivered the beginning of the end for fossil fuels? Probably not, and certainly not in the timescale required by climate science.
Nearly 200 countries at the Cop28 climate summit have agreed to a deal that, for the first time, calls on all nations to transition away from fossil fuels to avert the...
A new agro-industrial complex in Iraq's Umm Qasr Port has received support from development banks.The project by Sama Al-Manar and Manar FZCO - subsidiaries of...
The World Bank approved a $200 million loan to support Chile's universal primary care program, an essential component of the country's efforts to reform its...
EIB has approved a €550 million ($593 million) loan to Adif to increase capacity at Madrid’s Puerta de Atocha Almudena Grandes station. The financing is...
Communities in Djibouti and Ethiopia, including borderland areas, refugees and host communities, will benefit from enhanced connectivity as part of a World Bank-backed...
Energy Dome has announced funding commitments for its first CO2-based thermo-mechanical energy storage system to be located in Sardinia, Italy.Funding will be in the form...
Plenty has been prophesied already about the budding relationship between credit and political risk insurers (CPRI) and development finance lenders, particularly as CPRI...