French oil and gas major Total has signed “definitive agreements” with Novatek to acquire a minor stake in a Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) development

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an $11.5 million loan in tenge equivalent for United Green's 50MW Baikonyr solar project in south central Kazakhstan – the first time the multilateral development bank has provided long-term local currency financing for a solar project in Central Asia

InfraCo Africa has signed with Africa-focused renewables developer Gigawatt Global up to $2.2 million in loans for the development of two solar IPPs in Kenya with a combined power output of 20MW – with the additional objective of supporting a negotiated local currency PPA

The South Korean government has said that it will provide an extra 235 trillion won ($208.8 billion) in financing to support the country’s exporters

Asian Development Bank re-issued today a request for expressions of interest from technical advisory firms to assist Cambodia's Ministry of Public Works on a trade logistics complex PPP project

AIDA Cruises has selected KfW IPEX-Bank to structure the financing for its third cruise ship powered by liquefied natural gas

Asian Development Bank and the India government have signed a $926 million loan – the largest infrastructure project loan in the bank’s history – to help implement the $1.675 billion Mumbai metro rail project

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) and Kikagati Power Company (KPCL) have signed a $27 million loan for the development of a 14MW hydroelectric dam on the Kagera River on the border of Uganda and Tanzania

Egyptian mid-to-downstream developer Carbon Holdings has hired Hala El-Mohandes as its new deputy CEO of project and export finance

Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Transport and Roads (MOTR) is seeking a director for the first phase of the World Bank-financed Central Asia Regional Links (CARs 1) programme, aimed at improving road links between the Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

The Queensland state government has granted 14 petroleum leases to Arrow Energy’s Surat gas blocks. The total cost is around A$10 billion ($7.1 billion)

Watson Farley & Williams has taken a team of Africa-focused lawyers from magic circle firm Clifford Chance, giving it a foothold in the continent with a experienced group of energy specialists

The African Export-Import Bank has appointed Humphrey Nwugo as regional chief operating officer for its Southern Africa regional office, a position he had been performing in an acting capacity

The Inter-American Development Bank is changing its procurement rules, expanding its policies to include topics it considers to be the main challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

The African Export-Import Bank and the Arab Organisation for Industrialisation earlier this week signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on investments

Norwegian software vendor Commercial Banking Applications (CBA) has confirmed that it has completed the latest release of its IBAS Global Trade Finance Factory (GTF)

Tradewind has signed on a $500,000 non-recourse export factoring facility with an unnamed designer, manufacturer and exporter of technical tubes and hoses based in Spain

UK Export Finance has signed on funding totalling £130 million ($173 million) for three projects in Ghana involving British companies

A Kenyan-Chinese consortium has signed a contract with Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) to provide drilling services on a new project to develop geothermal power plants in Ethiopia