The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering a $23.3 million loan to Banque Marocaine du Commerce et de l’Industrie for the purpose of supporting energy projects in Morocco

The African Export-Import Bank has signed a $500 million facility agreement with China Development Bank to increase lending on African energy and infrastructure projects

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation has signed an agreement to invest $300 million for the development of a high-speed railway project connecting Dallas and Houston

Groupe ADP, TAV Airports and Bouygues Batîment International are in discussions with French export credit agency Bpifrance to potentially finance the Havana Airport and San Antonio Airport PPP in Cuba

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has rolled out a new risk and collateral management solution provided by Swiss software company Micro Informatique & Technologies

The deadline to bid for two lots of contracts to build Ho Chi Minh City’s KfW-backed second mass rapid transit line has been extended to 30 November

The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $150 million loan to support the national electric energy transmission programme in Honduras

Brazil's National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels has approved a further six companies to participate in the country's next oil and gas auction, taking the total number of bidders to 12

Thai firm B.Grimm Power has signed a PPA with Vietnamese utility EVN for the 420MW Dau Tieng solar farm in Tay Ninh, in south west Vietnam

Foreign aid agency the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development has approved a $33 million concessionary loan to Emirates Waste to Energy Company for the development of the waste-to-energy facility in Sharjah, UAE

Uganda’s Rural Electrification Agency has invited international firms to bid on two procurement contracts for the Uganda Rural Electricity Access Project

The China National Petroleum Corporation has agreed a deal with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to arrange $2.38 billion in financing for the Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano gas pipeline project

The GET FiT Zambia secretariat, on behalf of the Zambian Ministry of Energy, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the first round of KfW's GET FiT programme

The Asian Development Bank has launched a new tool to help banks determine that SMEs are abiding by anti-terrorism and money-laundering legislation and regulations

The International Finance Corporation and the State Bank of Pakistan have signed an advisory agreement to support green banking in Pakistan

UK-based Clarke Energy has been awarded a supply and maintenance contract to provide four gas engines to the the Great Mosque of Algiers – Djamaâ el Djazaïr mosque – under construction in Algiers, Algeria

China Three Gorges appears set to pull out of the agreement to build the $1.6 billion, 750MW West Seti hydropower plant in north west Nepal

Kuwait National Petroleum Company has awarded China’s Sinopec an engineering, procurement and construction contract for work at its Mina Al Ahmadi refinery

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that her government will invest $73 million in battery storage technologies in South Africa