Je Woo Cho has joined Korea Southern Power as manager, in charge of overseas project development and financing

Canadian mining company Teck has signed a $2.5 billion limited recourse project finance deal to fund the expansion of its Chilean mining project, Quebrada Blanca Phase 2

Sonnedix has closed a $99 million non-recourse project financing in Chile with loans from multilateral and commercial lenders

German developer wpd and a Japanese consortium have reached financial close on the 640MW Yunlin offshore wind farm with a $2.98 billion ECA-backed project financing package

Spanish company Trina Solar Energy has closed on a $7.1 million loan with Colombia's Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional − the first time the development bank has financed a non-conventional project

Akin Gump has hired Matthew Kapinos as a partner in its energy practice in Houston

The EBRD and IFC are to provide up to $ 41 million in long-term debt financing for the 55MW Masrik-1 Solar power plant in the municipality of Masrik, Armenia

The Asian Development Bank and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate the use of their financial solutions for the private sector and PPPs

Alessandor Puliti is to replace Antonia Vella as chief upstream officer at Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni in Rome

Private equity fund HitecVision plans to turn its recently acquired Solveig Gas pipeline firm – which owns 25.6% of Gassled joint venture – into a separate oil and gas company

The Asian Development Bank has re-advertised a request for expressions of interest (EOIs) from water sector experts to help on the transfer of services under PPP in four cities in Uzbekistan

African DFIs are lining up to sign on a $200 million debt package for the Colluli potash mine in Eritrea being developed by a joint venture (JV)

Bangkok Bank and Commerzbank have completed a pilot transaction on TradeIX’s Marco Polo digital trade finance network

Silicon-Valley startup Crowdz has raised $5.5 million through a Series A funding round for the development of a global blockchain-based invoice exchange

Zenith Bank UK has appointed Goretti Lote as its new head of international business development, based in London

The World Bank has approved $10 million in international development association (IDA) guarantees for the first phase of Ethiopia's $200 million Renewable Energy Guarantee Programme (REGREP)

EBRD has promoted Andi Aranitasi as new head of North Macedonia in Skopje

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission has called for “clarification and harmonisation” of regulations to close the trade finance gap in a whitepaper published today (28 May 2019)

UK-based facilities management and cleaning company NIC Services Group has signed a new invoice finance deal with Siemens Financial Services (SFS)