China Development Bank (CDB) and United Bank for Africa have signed a $100 million seven-year loan deal to finance the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. The agreement will boost UBA's capacity to provide access to finance to SMEs across the 19 African countries where it currently operates.
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...
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 even...
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 an earlier SAF financing helped assure a painless close.
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 development finance industry.
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 even vaccine sovereignty is hard to bank without public risk-sharing, demand visibility and unusually credible developers.
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