The AfDB has approved a $25 million equity investment in the ARCH Africa Renewable Power Fund to finance roughly 533MW of renewable energy projects across Sub-Saharan Africa

The Asian Development Bank has been mandated by the International Solar Alliance to set up a new bank to finance renewable projects

Japan International Cooperation Agency has approved a loan to fund procurement of rolling stock and a railway system for the greenfield 56.5km North-South Commuter Railway in Manila

Aluminium Bahrain, the Bahrain-based aluminum smelter, has closed on the second tranche of ECA financing for its $3 billion Line 6 expansion project

Ethiopia's Office of the Public-Private Partnership is set to tender six solar PV projects with a combined installed power capacity of 798MW and an overall cost of $798.9 million. Two of the six projects will be developed under the IFC's Scaling Solar programme

The sponsors for the 800MW Java 3 gas-fired power plant in Indonesia are looking to close on the transaction by the end of 2019, and are understood to already be holding talks with Japan Bank for International Cooperation

The African Development Bank has promoted Arun Kumar to principal investment officer based in Côte d'Ivoire

UN Secretary-General's Envoy for Climate Action Michael Bloomberg has launched the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative, with six influential finance sector leaders as founding members

Mainstream Renewable Power has secured a euro-denominated corporate trade finance loan to fund sponsor equity associated with its 1.3GW Andes Renovables portfolio in Chile as well as early-stage development costs globally

Petrobras announced on 17 January that it has resumed the process to sell 90% of its pipeline subsidiary Transportadora Associada de Gás

Asian Development Bank has approved funding for the $121 million Shu solar power plant in south east Kazakhstan

As part of General Electric’s divestment of assets held by GE Capital, MUFG Union Bank has agreed to acquire Trade Payable Services (TPS) for an undisclosed sum

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed agreements to finance two road projects in and around Côte d’Ivoire's capital city Abidjan

The World Bank will provide up to $250 million in guarantees to support projects from the Argentine renewable energy programme, the RenovAr round 2 tender

UAE’s Etihad Rail has invited pre-qualification bids for an O&M contract for the second stage of the country’s $11 billion national rail project

Sheharyar Chughtai has joined Asian Development Bank as a PPP specialist

The EBRD will provide Uzbekenergo with an up-to $240 million loan – its largest financing in Uzbekistan – to expand the capacity of the Talimarjan power complex (TPC) in Kashkadarya

The EBRD named new regional heads for the Caucasus as well as Romania and Bulgaria in January 2019

The African Development Bank and European Commission have signed co-financing agreements for a €399 million power interconnection project between Cameroon and Chad, and a €79 million fibre optic scheme in Niger and Chad