The African Development Bank and the European Commission have signed up to $23 million in grants for the preliminary work on a 1,080km road connecting Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria

Trade finance fintech firm Surecomp has launched APIsure, the first open API platform for trade finance-related applications

HSBC has announced that Vivek Ramachandran has become CEO of its Jasmine22 venture, a new Google Cloud-based trading platform for SMEs

US-based provider of working capital solutions Taulia has appointed David Venables in London as its UK and Ireland account executive

Euro Exim Bank has announced that it has integrated xRapid – the cross-border payment solution from blockchain and payments firm Ripple

The EIB-sponsored Eiffel Energy Transition Fund has signed a bridge financing agreement to support Shanghai-based solar developer ReneSola's solar PV projects in Hungary and Poland

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has raised the credit risk rating of Uzbekistan, which should begin to open the country to foreign investment

African Export-Import Bank has held the pre-incorporation meeting for its new Fund for Export Development in Africa

The Croatian government has agreed to lend €100 million ($114.7 million) to the long delayed floating LNG project of the island of Krk

State-owned Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has raised $6.5 billion from global and regional lenders to refinance corporate debt

Armenian bank Ardshinbank has signed a $35 million trade finance facility to support export companies in the eastern European country

Rolls-Royce has signed a contract with EDF to provide back-up power to the UK's 3.2GW Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset

UK Export Finance has committed up to $1.02 billion in direct loans and guarantees in support for two power stations in Iraq

Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority has signed a 25-year PPA with GE and Sumitomo Corporation to deliver a 1.8GW combined-cycle gas-fired power plant in Hamriyah, UAE

The EIB is mulling a €57 million loan to Société Nigérienne d'Électricité for a €132 million electrification improvement project in Niger

The IFC has appointed John Gandolfo as vice-president and treasurer based in Washington, DC

Cube Infrastructure Managers' European Investment Bank-anchored European broadband infrastructure fund has made its first investment, signing a deal with network developers Vahta and 3T Cable to roll out fiber-to-the-home access to over 135,000 locations in rural Croatia

The financial and legal advisers have emerged on a LNG receiving facilities project that PT Pertamina and Marubeni are developing in Bangladesh

Export Development Canada announced an update to its climate-change policy on 28 January that will prohibit it from making any future investments linked to thermal coal