The Asian Development Bank is to double its annual lending to the Philippines to $2 billion between 2018 and 2021

Bombardier Transportation has signed an MoU with the Malaysian Industry Government Group, an agency under the Malaysia Prime Minister’s office to develop Malaysia’s rail industry expertise over the next year

Toshiba Corp is in talks with Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management to sell its nuclear unit, NuGen, which owns the rights to develop the £10 billion ($13.1 billion) 3.8GW Moorside Nuclear plant in Cumbria

A group of 15 global institutions, including banks, trading companies and oil & gas major, have formed a joint venture to launch a new blockchain-based open platform

The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility is backing Sheffield Resources’ Thunderbird mineral sands mine development in Kimberly in Western Australia with two long-term loans totalling $69 million

HSBC has appointed Rodrigo Boulos as its head of sales for trade and receivables finance for the West Coast of the US

The European Investment Bank has signed two grants worth €32 million with the Government of Egypt for the €164 million improvement project at the wastewater treatment site in Kafr el-Sheikh governorate

Marubeni will halve its holding of coal-fired power plants from 3GW to 1.5GW by 2030

Spanish state-owned bank Instituto de Crédito Oficial will provide $130mi to CAF to finance infra projects using Spanish companies.

Egypt-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has signed on a $150 million syndicated loan with a group of Korean banks to fund trade finance lending

UK telecom conglomerate Vodafone is reportedly considering the sale of thousands of masts in a bid to pay down $36 billion debt

China Western Power Company has signed a framework agreement to supply 630MW of solar photovoltaic modules to Lyon Infrastructure Investments in Australia for three of its projects

State-owned energy provider Tonga Power is inviting bids to design and build a battery energy storage system for Popua power station in Tonga

Spain's Acciona Energia has entered the Ukrainian renewables market with a $65 million investment in a solar PV complex located in Dymerka, in the north of the country

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation has approved a $100 million loan facility to Ghana's CAL Bank to support energy and infrastructure projects in Ghana

The African Development Bank has approved a $1 million grant to independent power producers in Angola to encourage private investment in the country's renewables sector

German wind turbine supplier Nordex Group has signed deals with the lead sponsors of two wind projects procured under South Africa's renewable energy IPP programme

The Nordic Investment Bank has signed a $100 million loan facility agreement with the African Export-Import Bank to finance infrastructure projects across Africa

The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development has signed an $8.4 million loan to the Seychelles’ Public Utilities Corporation for the 5MW Ile de Romainville solar PV on Romainville Island near the island nation's capital Victoria