Brazilian development bank BNDES has reported a 26% drop in loan disbursements to 11.2 billion reais in the first quarter of the year, while loan approvals increased 11% to 16 billion reais. The lender says 54% of disbursements were for small and middle-sized companies.
Tanzania’s latest standard gauge railway financing shows that African transport corridors can access global liquidity. But only when sovereign risk, export credit, MDB...
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, will...
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.
Tanzania’s latest standard gauge railway financing shows that African transport corridors can access global liquidity. But only when sovereign risk, export credit, MDB guarantees, Chinese cover and E&S machinery are assembled into a highly bespoke structure.
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, will require deeper commitment.
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Connecting the Middle East and Africa. Step into the vibrant world of impact and development finance at Exile’s (TXF, Proximo and Uxolo) MEA 2026.
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