In today’s episode, Leslie Maasdorp, CEO of British International Investment (BII), shares his strategic vision for scaling sustainable finance in frontier and emerging...

Infrastructure assets are increasingly under threat from extreme weather events linked to climate change. Adaptation strategies are urgently needed to shield projects...

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...

In today's episode, Signe Kolby Sørensen, Director of Strategy & Impact at Norfund, discusses investment strategies aligned with impactful development. She highlights...

Welcome to Exiled: The Real Assets People, a podcast where we ‘strand’ a guest on a desert island and ask them who from their professional past, present, and future...

Indonesia will need to seriously pick up the pace of both renewables and coal retirement financing to meet a 2040 coal phase-out ambition. A lacklustre and...

The Lobito Corridor Railway project is progressing, with more than enough funding raised for its initial needs. But questions still remain over whether DFIs should be...

At COP28 countries for the first time addressed the massive elephant in the climate room – fossil fuels, albeit in less than fierce wording. This year, in Azerbaijan,...

Helios Investment Partners’ Climate, Energy Access, and Resilience (CLEAR) private equity fund has raised $200 million in its first close, leaving the Africa-focused fund...

Africa accounts for 17% of the global population, but holds less than 1% of the world's data centre capacity. For developers, navigating the grids, energy sources, and,...

The importance of digital infrastructure cannot be underestimated: a community connected to the internet generates jobs, security, and economic growth. Telecoms providers...

Guarantees demonstrably catalyse private capital mobilisation in emerging markets. So why do MDBs use them so sparingly? The problem is institutional incompatibility.

Bart Raemaekers, head of guarantees and syndications at ADB, discusses how the bank’s $13 billion pipeline is leveraging de-risking elements to meet a strong commercial...

Tanzania tapped its first ever green bond in 2023 and laid a seedbed for this year's even bigger green issue, and its first municipal bond. The notes are viable routes to...

Despite the urgent, growing need for climate adaptation and resilience financing, volumes sit at just a tenth of climate mitigation flows. The private sector is...

The billions to trillions narrative which the development finance network has based its private capital mobilisation aspirations on since 2015 is on shaky ground because,...

New Development Bank (NDB) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) were both set up almost a decade ago – 2015 and 2016, respectively. As their first decade...

All roads out of a successful development project should lead to better resilience. But financing resilience per se is difficult given it cannot be easily measured....

Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) can be more flexible than traditional green debt and are well-suited to the long-term, outcome-oriented, carefully structured KPIs that...

After a year's research, ODI has released six papers detailing the legal, policy, budgetary, stress, risk, and financial implications of MDB callable capital – research...