Latin American-focused international institutions have partnered up to launch 3 data observatories that will help with infrastructure investments and policy planning, and aims to speed up development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Afreximbank has promoted its head of syndicated loans – Constantine von Moltke – as its new director of syndications and agency

Brazil’s municipality of Belém has published the bidding documents for the public lighting PPP

JICA has signed with the government of Kenya a $17.8 million grant for a power grid improvement project in the vicinities of Nakuru and Mombasa

The ITFC – a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group – has approved a $5 million Murabaha financing facility in favour of Bank of Maldives

A multilateral development bank is recruiting a financial adviser on a $11 billion controlled-access expressway project in India

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo yesterday in a video conference said that the government is speeding up the development of the Patimban Port project phase 1 in Subang regency, West Java.

The IsDB has approved up to $50 million in grants with the government of Sierra Leone for two separate projects to improve water supply in Freetown and build a new road to improve transport links with neighbouring Guinea

The EIB has granted a deadline extension for the legal advisory role on the €580.3 million Desalination Plant and Associated Works Programme

A new special economic zone in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has reached commercial close, making it the first SEZ to be developed under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor framework

The Myanmar government has signed an agreement with Norway-based SN Power to co-develop the 735MW Middle Yeywa hydropower PPP on the Myitnge river in Shan State, Myanmar, IJGlobal has heard

Japanese developer Eurus Energy has lined up financing for a 56MW wind project in Baja California Sur, Mexico

A World Bank Group member and Japan's export credit agency have signed their first memorandum of understanding together

The main issue with Latin America is regulatory and political risk and if we can work around this there will be plenty of opportunity, according to industry insiders at IJLatAm 2020, IJGlobal's Latin America virtual energy and infrastructure conference to replace the Miami event

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is considering deploying equity in Latin America, as it has done previously in other regions such as Southeast Asia

Hitachi is abandoning plans to build the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant in Anglesey, Wales, after failing to secure a clear funding package

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted Peru's need for greater investment in social infrastructure, which is driving the next round of public private partnerships to be awarded by ProInversion, the governmental PPP procurement agency.

The Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and Export-Import Bank (EXIM) yesterday (15 September 2020) signed Letters of Interest (LoI) with Serbia and Kosovo to help finance construction of the Peace Highway.

A business intelligence report released by AMA entitled Trade Finance Market Size, Status and Forecast 2019-2025 covering analysis by manufacturers and key business segments augurs well for trade finance