Rudninkai: The return of PPP for defence
The Ukraine conflict has pushed European governments to revisit the use of PPP structures to procure defence infrastructure. The Rūdninkai project demonstrates that the...
The Ukraine conflict has pushed European governments to revisit the use of PPP structures to procure defence infrastructure. The Rūdninkai project demonstrates that the...
The €207 million Amber Dragon Ukraine Infrastructure Fund I (ADUIF 1) reached first close in late May. For Dominykas Tuckus, Ukraine fund lead and managing director at...
Africa benefits from large untapped pools of capital in the shape of savings - but infrastructure projects struggle to tap it. A new generation of donor- and DFI-led...
Ukraine is no longer waiting for peace to finance its recovery. But generous terms, layered guarantees, war-risk cover, fund anchors and public balance sheets are taking...
Turkey sits in a keystone position both geographically and politically, and multilaterals are moving quickly to enhance their operations in the country. Tight economic...
In this episode of Uxolo: In-Depth With, recorded live from Prague, Jessica Brown speaks with Ato Gyasi of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) about mobilising private...
In this episode of Uxolo: In-Depth With, Jessica Brown speaks with Chinua Azubike, CEO of InfraCredit, about how credit enhancement, local currency financing and...
The refinancing for Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport combines long-dated institutional capital, a DFI anchor commitment and flexible bank funding. Where asset quality,...
Kruskaia Sierra-Escalante, Global Head of Capital Mobilisation at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), reflects on the growing momentum behind private capital...
Sacit Akbaş, Head of Investments at YEO. Having begun his career as a civil engineer before specialising in geotechnical engineering in the United States, Sacit has spent...
Development finance lenders are continuing to innovate, despite a less promising backdrop. But making those innovations stick, as speakers at Uxolo's Global 2026 suggest,...
Tanzania’s latest standard gauge railway financing shows that African transport corridors can access global liquidity. But only when sovereign risk, export credit, MDB...
Biovac’s EU-backed quasi-equity package and Brazil’s planned $1.2 billion vaccine PPP suggest that life-sciences are increasingly viewed as social infrastructure. But...
Ángela Pérez, CEO and chair at COFIDES, spoke to Uxolo at the lill Global Symposium 2026 in Oxford. Here she talks risk-sharing and catalysing private capital in the...
In this episode of Uxolo: In-Depth With, Jessica Brown speaks with Kim-See Lee, Chief Investment Officer for Public Sector, Financial Institutions and Funds at the Asian...
A landmark sustainable aviation fuel project in Egypt shows that commercial banks and local equity can get behind emerging transportation fuels. But shared experience on...
Imperative’s second-phase spekboom project combines a four-investor carbon financing, a 14-year World Bank outcome bond and long-term offtake with Amazon. It points...
ATIDI has evolved from a political risk insurer into a Pan-African development catalyst - unlocking capital across infrastructure, energy, agribusiness and digital trade....
The €65 million Poro Power green bond offers a faster alternative to conventional DFI-led project finance for African renewables. But the template still depends on...
Development banks have lined up behind ATOME’s Villeta green hydrogen fertiliser plant in Paraguay. Global supply chain disruptions have given the deal momentum, but DFI...
The Ukraine conflict has pushed European governments to revisit the use of PPP structures to procure defence infrastructure. The Rūdninkai project demonstrates that the asset class is bankable and investible.