Dr Rebecca Harding, independent economist and CEO of trade finance data service provider Coriolis Technologies, has become a member of the World Trade Board

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Lotte Schou-Zibell as new Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office (PLCO) regional director, based in Sydney, Australia

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed with the governments of Djibouti and Ethiopia a $255 million financing package for phase one of the Ethiopia-Djibouti Road Transport Corridor Project

Standard Chartered Bank has completed a pilot transaction with Thai state-owned oil and gas company PPT Group on the Voltron blockchain platform

Thai oil and gas company PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) has signed a share purchase agreement with Coastal Energy (Khorat) to acquire shares in APICO for about $74 million

IFC will lead on a $225 million debt package for the $822 million expansion of the Tasiast gold mine, located 300km north of the capital city Nouakchott, Mauritania

KfW IPEX-Bank will finance German regional telecoms company NetCologne's plans to develop and expand broadband infrastructure across Germany's greater Cologne/Bonn area

African DFIs have confirmed formal credit approval for a $200 million senior debt package for the Colluli potash mine in Eritrea

Standard Chartered has completed a supply chain finance transaction for a Chinese entity responsible for digital government services via Linklogis’ blockchain platform

The Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has said that it expects negotiations with project developers of the Elk-Antelope fields of the Papua LNG project to conclude in two weeks

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed CC Yu as its country director of Turkmenistan

A team of lenders including the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development and two Jordanian banks has signed on a $34.6 million debt package for Kawar Energy’s 37MW solar park in Jordan

Oil & gas heavyweights BP and Eni have signed with Oman’s Ministry of Oil & Gas an exploration and production sharing agreement (EPSA) for Block 77 in central Oman

Australian gold mine developer Resolute Mining has signed an agreement to acquire all shares in Toro Gold for a total value of $274 million – the deal includes majority-owned Mako Gold Mine in eastern Senegal

The deadline to submit bids for the civil works of the 53km Malolos-Clark Railway project in Manila has been extended again, this time to 12 September

Microsoft and the digital business subsidiary of Publicis Groupe have been announced as partners of the world’s first digital-only trade finance bank – Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank (AGTB)

The EBRD has agreed to lend €149 million ($165.8 million) to Ukrenergo to fund improvement to Ukraine’s transmission infrastructure for synchronisation with European electricity networks

The EIB have agreed to lend €44.2 million ($49.2 million) to Alfanar for its 547MW Lanuza onshore wind project in Spain. It had previously said it was considering a loan of €385 million

Japan's Itochu and Transgaz have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop LNG terminals and gas transportation projects in Europe