State-controlled Petrobras has announced a settlement with Brazil’s antitrust body, Cade, to increase competition in the natural gas sector in Brazil

An Asia-based development finance institution (DFI) has come closer to final approval for the creation of a $500 million Asia climate bond portfolio, aimed at promoting development of the climate bond market in AIIB member countries

Carsten Böhler has joined Swiss Export Risk Insurance (SERV) as head of acquisition and representation

Africa50 has hired Opuiyo Oforiokuma as its new head of strategy and investor relations, to lead fundraising efforts with public- and private-sector partners

The European Investment Bank has signed a $25 million loan with Cape Verde's telecoms company to connect the island country to the $173 million EllaLink subsea cable

An Asia-based export credit agency (ECA) has decided to provide commercial and political risk insurance for a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants project in Taiwan

An Asia-based development finance institution has passed its concept review this week to finance a $658 million, two-phase water supply and sewage project in central Uzbekistan

The city of Brasov alongside EBRD has launched an invitation for EOIs for advisory services for a healthcare PPP in Romania

Hanergy has signed an EPC+F contract with Congolese energy utility Société nationale d'électricité for the development of up to 400MW of solar projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Indonesian president Joko Widodo has asked China to set up a special Belt & Road fund for the country

South Africa-based Absa Bank has signed and closed on a new $500 million two-year term loan, with proceeds to be used for trade finance and other general corporate purposes

Italian energy supplier Green Network has launched a three-year €1.8 billion securitisation programme of trade receivables

Alexander R. Malaket, World Trade Board member and president of OPUS Advisory Services International Inc, explores how policy and technology can improve global trade

The IFC is looking to take over the mandated lead arranger role for the $80 million, 60MW Salima solar PV in Dedza, Malawi

UniCredit has appointed Ingo Raulf as director for corporate structured finance in Germany

Two of Deutsche Bank’s most senior trade and export finance bankers are set to retire with internal replacements lined up

The Bangladesh Government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed a loan to provide Japanese official development assistance (ODA) of up to ¥143.127 billion ($1.32 billion) for a coal-fired power plant complex in Matarbari

Argentina-based power company Central Puerto has closed a $76.1 million financing with the IFC for its 88MW La Genoveva wind farm located close to Bahia Blanca, in the southern part of the Buenos Aires province

Mitigram, a Swedish fintech company specialising in trade finance risk coverage, has raised SKr100 million in a latest round of fundraising