Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has approved a $120 million loan to state-owned Power Grid Corporation of Bangladesh to extend and upgrade Chattogram's power transmission system

The board of the African Development Bank has approved an equity investment of €12.5 million in a private fund managed by Adiwale Partners that supports small and medium sized enterprises based in Francophone West Africa

Debt financing is signing today for Petronas and Saudi Aramco’s Refinery and Petrochemicals Integrated Development project within the wider Pengerang Integrated Complex in Malaysia

Nippon Export and Investment Insurance will provide loan insurance on the commercial bank tranche of a $482 million debt package to fund the acquisition of power generation required to construct a 1,026.3MW combined-cycle gas-fired facility at the Al Layyah power plant

Colombian development bank Financiera de Desarollo Nacional has approved a liquidity facility for the Rumichaca-Pasto 4G highway project

Medco Power and Ratchaburi Electricity, sponsors on the 275MW gas-fired power plant in Riau province on Sumatra Island in Indonesia, have achieved financial close on the project

The EBRD and IFC are expected to provide a combined $350 million in senior loan financing for the 66km ring road around Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty – the central Asian country’s first PPP project

The African Development Bank has approved a $20 million loan to the government of Democratic Republic of Congo, to support three renewables-based mini-grid projects

Commerzbank and LBBW have marked a trade finance first working with Voith and KSB in the facilitation of the digital transformation of trade finance solutions based on blockchain technology

Morocco’s Office National des Aéroports has awarded the construction contract of a new terminal at Rabat-Salé airport to a Sinohydro-led consortium, having disqualified the lowest bidder

The Asian Development Bank is providing technical support to Vietnam’s Ministry of Construction with today's invitation to consulting firms for expressions of interest in advising on solid waste PPPs

Clemente del Valle, president of the Colombian development institution Financiera de Desarollo Nacional, has stepped down

Zimbabwe Power Company has cancelled a $133 million contract for the rehabilitation of the 90MW Bulawayo thermal power plant originally awarded to Indian EPC contractor Jaguar Overseas

Ecuador’s water utility company Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua Potable y Saneamiento has closed on financing to improve and expand wastewater treatment facilities

Africa-focused power developer Globeleq is nearing financial close on the €350 million fourth phase expansion of the 430MW Azito gas-fired power plant near Abidjan

State-owned power utility Uzbekenergo has received RFQ submissions from 23 companies to develop a 100MW solar farm in Uzbekistan's Navoi region

Asian Development Bank issued over the weekend a second re-advertisement request for expressions of interest from transaction advisory firms to assist Cambodia's Ministry of Public Works on a trade logistics complex PPP project

Renova has accepted a binding offer presented by AES Tietê to acquire the 400MW Alto Sertão III wind complex

IDB has selected a team to conduct studies for a potential power transmission line linking Brazil to Bolivia