PIDG-member EAIF will sign with Nigerian power developer Genesis Holdings a €27 million loan for it €36 million, 25MW Maria Gleta gas-fired power project near Porto Nova, Benin

HSBC acted as MLA, original lender and agent bank in a $258 million ECA loan for The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s ministry of finance

A development finance institution aims to boost its understanding of offshore wind financing, paving the way for future investment in the sector

An InfraCo Africa-led consortium has invited RFPs from firms for the owner’s engineering services for the first phase of the $70 million, 60MW Djermaya solar IPP located near the capital city of N’Djamena in Chad

India's Ministry of Finance has imposed new restrictions on bidders in any public procurement from "countries that share a land border with India", though countries to which the government extends lines of credit or development assistance are exempted. Market observers say the new rules apply in particular to Pakistan

A development finance institution (DFI) has issued a request for expressions of interest by firms to assist on a portfolio of solid waste and sanitation projects in China

Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) has signed a €75 million ($87 million) loan to the management company of 2 Italian airports

The IFC has committed $5.6 billion for the fiscal year 2020 to target private sector development in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is changing its environmental and social policy and procedures (ESPP) to enable support for nuclear power projects

A Marubeni-led consortium has reached financial close on the $467 million, 800MW Al Kharsaah solar IPP located 80km west of Doha – the tariff has been newly set at a low price of $0.01449 per kilowatt hour

Latin American development bank CAF and Italian development bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) have signed an agreement to launch a €100 million ($114.75 million) facility to invest in energy, transport and social and urban development sectors across Latin America

Chan May LNG, a US-Vietnam joint-stock company, is planning to invest up to $6 billion on LNG power projects in Vietnam – with significant support from ECAs

Malaysia and Singapore will be signing the agreements for the Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link on 31 July (2020), after both sides finalised the bilateral agreement, according to Wee Ka Siong, Transport Minister of Malaysia, in a parliamentary oral reply

A development finance institution is recruiting an adviser to examine the Kyrgyzstan power market

Emirati solar developer SirajPower has signed with APICORP a $50 million loan to finance a portfolio of rooftop solar assets

Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades earlier this month laid the foundation stone for the Vasilikos LNG Terminal PPP with financing approval now in the bag

Norfund has appointed Simbah Mutasa as the DFI’s new regional director at its new Southern Africa office which is opening in Cape Town, South Africa

A development finance institution has issued a request for expressions of interest to firms to assist with a study of the satellite subsector

A development finance institution has requested expressions of interest for 2 assignments on a wastewater PPP project in central Bangladesh