Zambia’s Ilute solar project reached financial close without a sovereign guarantee, using a layered capital structure to absorb merchant price risk. It provides a template for...
There is huge potential to improve self-sufficiency and export earnings in African agriculture. AgriConnect hopes to develop the tools to do so.
In today’s episode, Leslie Maasdorp, CEO of British International Investment (BII), shares his strategic vision for scaling sustainable finance in frontier and emerging markets. He discusses how BII is navigating global funding cuts, recent investments in green infrastructure and digital connectivity, and the institution’s evolving approach to impact and transparency.
Zambia’s Ilute solar project reached financial close without a sovereign guarantee, using a layered capital structure to absorb merchant price risk. It provides a template for how market-based renewables can be financed in frontier markets - but the structure is still dependent on DFIs.
There is huge potential to improve self-sufficiency and export earnings in African agriculture. AgriConnect hopes to develop the tools to do so.
A one-day senior-level event launching the release of full year 2025 export, commodity, project and development finance data reports from TXF, Proximo and Uxolo.
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Full-year 2025 export, commodity, project and development finance data from TXF, Proximo and Uxolo, discussed at a senior-level, one-day event.
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