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Perspective
12 January 2023
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Social projects

Introducing the Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund - Part two

Two-part series with Investisseurs et Partenaires (I&P) and Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA).

News
11 January 2023
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Social projects

SAMRIDH supports StratMed's tech enabled platform

The USAID-supported SAMRIDH Healthcare Blended Financing Facility has committed INR29.5 million ($421,000) to StratMed to support their tech-enabled platform,...

News
03 January 2023

Afreximbank approves $1.5bn funding for CARICOM members

Afreximbank has approved $1.5 billion in funding to enable member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to access the bank's various financial instruments.The...

News
21 December 2022
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Social projects

World Bank approves new financing for Ukraine

The World Bank Group has agreed a new financing package that includes projects to boost relief and recovery efforts for Ukraine amid the ongoing war. The World Bank...

News
19 December 2022
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Social infrastructure

Ronesans raises convertible loan for hospital PPPs

The EBRD is providing a €75 million five-year convertible loan to Ronesans Saglik Yatirim (Healthcare) for public-private partnership (PPP) investment in its Turkish...

News
15 December 2022
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Renewable energy

Globeleq seals debt funding for Menengai geothermal project in Kenya

Globeleq has signed financing agreements with the African Development Bank - as mandated lead arranger, Finnfund and TDB for the $72 million debt funding for the 35MW...

News
13 December 2022
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Social projects

New AfDB role for Professor Padmashree Gehl Sampath

The AfDB Group has appointed Professor Padmashree Gehl Sampath as a special advisor on pharmaceuticals and health infrastructure to the bank’s president, Dr....

News
09 December 2022
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Social infrastructure

SACE backs EIB loan for new tram line in Padua

SACE is backing a €34 million EIB loan to fund the construction of the new SIR3 tram line in the Italian city of Padua.The financing, supported by Italian ECA...

News
09 December 2022

Egypt in talks with AIIB and AfDB for Panda bond guarantee

Egypt is in talks with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) over a guarantee for the Panda bond to be issued soon....

News
09 December 2022

CABEI increases funding for non-founding countries

CABEI has approved a modification to the regulations that increases the maximum limit of financing for non-founding regional and extra-regional member countries.This...

Perspective
08 December 2022

Islamic finance and sustainability: Green shoots but slow growth

There is a shared sense of social responsibility between sustainable and Islamic financing and, as the latter is estimated to reach $4 trillion by 2030, a union could...

News
07 December 2022
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IT and telecoms

ADB, Tiger Infrastructure support rural connectivity in the Philippines

ADB has signed a $40 million loan with Tiger Infrastructure Philippines to build 380 telecommunications towers in the Mindanao and Visayas regions of the the...

News
07 December 2022
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Finance and other

AFC closes $160m Kimchi loan facility

Africa Finance Corporation is expanding its footprint in Asian capital markets with the closure of a $160 million Kimchi Term Loan Facility with Mizuho Bank and Shinhan...

News
06 December 2022
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Social infrastructure

STI refinances Salaverry Port with bond/loan hybrid

Salaverry Terminal Internacional (STI) – a subsidiary of Trabajos Maritimos (Tramarsa), which is in turn owned by Grupo Romero – has closed on a first for the...

Perspective
01 December 2022

Live webinar: A review of development finance market activity 2022

This Wednesday (30 Nov), Uxolo's director Sam McManus and Exile's head of insights and data Alfonso Olivas hosted a live webinar reviewing development finance's market...

Perspective
30 November 2022
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Agriculture/food chain, Climate finance, Finance and other, Health/education programmes, IT and telecoms, Manufacturing, Mining, Renewable energy, Social infrastructure, Social projects, Traditional energy, Waste and water

Brightmore Capital’s Ndeye Thiaw on impact investing in West Africa

Ndeye Thiaw, managing partner and co-founder of Brightmore Capital explains how the investment management and advisory firm channels smart capital into businesses...

Perspective
24 November 2022
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Climate finance, Traditional energy

What ETMs can and can’t do for coal-fired power retirements

The recent ACEN ETM to retire the South Luzon coal-fired plant early attracted some controversy over its use of the ETM moniker. But the deal is more promising than was...

News
21 November 2022

A new head – a new IDB?

Ilan Goldfajn’s election as the IDB’s new president is a surprising triumph of merit over mire. From the five candidates for the job – Argentina’s...

News
18 November 2022
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Finance and other

AFC seals $100m Korea Development Bank loan

Africa Finance Corporation has closed a five-year $100 million loan facility from the Korea Development Bank.The credit follows a recent $389 Samurai loan facility from...

Perspective
17 November 2022

Mind your exits

The logic of DFI exit mobilisation theory is sound. So why isn’t it happening in a big way in Africa and what are the issues stopping the concept delivering on its...