Debt-for-nature swaps are growing in volume and frequency, and could play a significant part in delivering the COP15 biodiversity framework – if more IMF data were...
COP27 was branded as the ‘implementation COP’ – this was the climate summit meant to finally fulfil financial pledges and translate talk into action. Aside from a few...
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...
The early stages of a project by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to target money laundering within trade and trade finance has already begun to show results. Catherine...
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...
Satgana – which offers pre-seed and seed stage equity to startups offering technological solutions to the climate crisis in Europe and Africa – has reached first close on...
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...
The director-general of OPEC Fund Dr Abdulhamid Alkhalifa joined Uxolo for a discussion on COP27, the first COP the institution is actively participating in. The...
COP26 featured renewed pledges to deliver on past undelivered financial promises, spawned a number of new grand support schemes and turned up the volume on calls for the...
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...
With COP27 on the horizon, Uxolo spoke to Pedro de Aragao Fernandes, analyst at Climate Policy Initiative to outline one of his co-authored reports, the Global Landscape...
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...
Are DFIs crowding out or hindering the private sector on deals that could have been financed without DFI/MDB direct loans? Many in the commercial market believe so and...
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...
As ILX Fund I hits its $1.05 billion target in commitments – diversification of the portfolio, co-financing with MDBs and DFIs, and allocation at scale are some of the...
Recently rebranded from Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) to British International Investment (BII), does the replacement of development with investment signal a...
COFIDES is joining Grupo Ortiz in the design, construction, provision and maintenance of the €77 million 215-bed Bosa Hospital PPP project in Colombia. COFIDES will...
California's Water Commission has allocated funds from the $2.7 billion Proposition 1 water bond to eight projects across the state. The largest award of $816...