Infrastructure assets are increasingly under threat from extreme weather events linked to climate change. Adaptation strategies are urgently needed to shield projects...
DFI support to Ukrainian borrowers dropped significantly over the past few years. Now, US DFC’s deals are on hold amid resource extraction remuneration, small tickets...
Irene Gambelli, subsidised financing manager at Maire Met Development, discusses her new role, and the part she will play liaising with MDBs and DFIs alongside ECAs to...
The outcome of a legal case between the US Treasury and an NGO over the IFC’s lack of environmental disclosures for its support of carbon-intensive infra projects could...
As investors crowd into high-grade ESG debt, ADB’s green bond success offers a window into evolving market appetite and the mounting impetus behind sustainable...
DFIs need to look beyond their comfort zones by working more proactively in the world’s lowest income countries. Their support for transition technologies in high-income...
Equinor and Polenergia have closed a landmark project financing for Baltyk 2&3 amid a flurry of activity in the offshore wind sector. Poland has big ambitions to...
Scaling up the mobilisation of private capital will need greater cooperation between DFIs, ECAs, and financial institutions, as well as product innovation. But there is a...
Hrvoje Čuvalo, President of the Management Board of the Croatian Bank of Reconstruction and Development, HBOR, and host of the Berne Union’s Spring Meeting in Dubrovnik,...
If the long end of the bond market were a dinner party, right now you’d hear a lot of awkward coughs and clinking ice as uncertainty grows and term premiums rise....
Since 2023, the IFC's securitisation has become a flagship strategy and now the EBRD is committed to realising its first synthetic risk transfer (SRT) by year-end. But in...
International banks are yet to participate in financing under the ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). But a financial blueprint for the phasing out of the Cirebon 1...
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)...
The greatest impact of the second Trump administration is likely to be through its application of tariffs on global trade flows. But its impacts on project pipelines and...
IFC has extended $300 million to Pakistan’s Reko Diq copper-gold mine. This could suggest that DFIs are expanding their support for the minerals industry as demand ramps...
The EIB has raised its first bond aligned with the EU Green Bond Standard in a bid to provide a template for other developments banks to follow suit. But is the issuance...
African heads of state approved the establishment of a continental stability fund last month, the Africa Financing Stability Mechanism (AFSM). But how will it differ from...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) priced a $2 billion fixed rate dollar benchmark bond this month despite volatile market conditions and a lack of MDB supply. The bond...
Uxolo's awards recognise innovation and effort in putting development capital to work, but also the strides that DFIs, MDBs and impact investors have made in raising that...
The Defence, Security and Resilience (DSR) Bank could answer Nato members’ defence spending needs, particularly in EU states. But what would such a bank modelled on MDBs...
Infrastructure assets are increasingly under threat from extreme weather events linked to climate change. Adaptation strategies are urgently needed to shield projects from climate risk - but time is running out.