The pipeline of repeat and debut debt-for-nature swaps is ballooning – a signal that the growth and deal size the market needs for significant environmental impact could...
Marisela Alvarenga, chief investment officer, Latin America and the Caribbean, at IDB Invest explains how the organisation’s recent $3.5 billion capital increase and its...
The latest World Bank outcome bond – the $225 million nine-year Amazon Reforestation-Linked Bond – is the biggest to date and yet another first. But can these highly...
Uxolo spoke with Chris Mitman, a partner at Acre Capital to find out how the fund is threading impact dollars into export finance deals, as it garners growing interest...
Development finance volumes are down in H1 2024 according to Uxolo’s debut half-year report. But the usual annual Q4 spike in volume could yet be a game changer.
ECAs, DFIs and banks to Madagascar’s Ambatovy nickel mine project financing are facing a wipeout of $1.66 billion loans under a new shareholder restructuring proposal....
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...
Cost of debt and mobilisation of private capital for Africa – could both be done better and cheaper? It’s a $170 billion per year question according to estimates from the...
Africa pays a premium for its debt that in many instances it should not. Why the onerous debt costs? And what can be done about it without major systemic change?
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,...
Trade financiers are taking a more conservative approach to lending to the increasingly volatile agri sector in Africa. But is the heightened African risk perception...
Uxolo looks at the way different financial institutions are approaching the crossovers between export, project and development finance in their stated efforts to finance...
With fairly minimal DFI support from the EIB and NIB, H2 Green Steel (H2GS) pulled off one of the most significant pathfinder project financings of 2023 - the world’s...
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.
Uxolo spoke with Natalie DeWit, DEG Invest's head of strategy to outline how the German DFI is backing small-scale projects and gender-based SME lending to its first...
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...
The pipeline of repeat and debut debt-for-nature swaps is ballooning – a signal that the growth and deal size the market needs for significant environmental impact could become a reality.