The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has invested $20 million in green bonds, issued by Georgian Railway JSC, with proceeds to be used primarily to roll over maturing Eurobonds that it had issued to improve existing railway lines as a part of an ongoing modernization project
AFC has accepted the membership of three additional African states – Burkina Faso, DRC, and Morocco – during Q1 2021
Energix has financed a portfolio of 2 wind farms totaling 125.4MW in Poland
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed two agreements with Santander under the Pan-European Guarantee Fund (EGF), approved as part of the €540 billion package of measures with which the European Union is responding to the economic impact of Covid-19
TradeMark East Africa and the Eastern and Southern African Trade & Development Bank have signed an MoU that establishes a framework for collaboration to boost trade in the region served by both institutions
BNB Kompani has reached financial close on the 36MW Bogoslovec wind farm in Northern Macedonia
The eThekwini Municipality in South Africa is completing the pre-development work for two new wastewater PPPs and is also expected to launch a new PPP tender for the existing Durban Water Reuse plant
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has increased Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank’s trade finance limit to $30 million while maintaining the $5 million limit of 6-month-tenor revolving loan
The IFC is considering a €50 million loan for Togolese telecommunications company Togocom to modernise and expand its network in the West African state
UK chancellor Rishi Sunak has formally opened the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB), furthering the government’s plan to “level up and create new opportunities” across the country
The last lender has approved its participation on a $1.02 billion power plant complex in central Uzbekistan, following the project’s breaking ground in January
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved up to $160.5 million to refinance the 240MW Dau Tieng Tay Ninh solar power project in Vietnam
The government of Niger has signed with the IFC a partnership under the World Bank Group member’s Scaling Solar programme
Grzegorz Zielinski has been appointed as head of energy in Europe at the EBRD
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has facilitated two trial transactions between National Bank of Greece and Citi on the digital trade finance network Contour.
The Railway Industry Association, and a number of its members, have welcomed the signing today of an agreement in principle between the Australian and UK Governments, paving the way for a Free Trade Agreement
Elisabetta Falcetti has started as the new head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in central Europe and the Baltic states
The government of Maldives has invited pre-qualifications from bidders to deploy battery energy storage systems (BESS) with a combined 40MW / 40MWh capacity as part of a nearly $110 million renewable energy project in the archipelago
The AFD has signed with the government of Tanzania a €130 million loan for a 50MW solar plant in the Shinyanga Region
Mashav Energia has signed project financing for a 37.4MW extension to its 220MW Potegowo onshore wind farm in Poland
Recent events in Mozambique have occluded what was otherwise the most defining event in the African infrastructure project financing world of 2020 – the debt financing of the $22.6 billion Area 1 Mozambique LNG project in the Rovuma Basin
Cairo Monorail Transit Project – a mass transit solution that is to be the longest monorail system in the world – quietly reached financial close late last year amid the coronavirus pandemic
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