Development finance

British International Investment’s most recent allocations target food security and electric vehicles. The institution says it is increasingly focusing its investments on fighting the climate emergency.

The company, which has just completed a second year of planting at one of its first projects in Sierra Leone, aims to generate high-quality carbon credits to help large buyers meet their net-zero commitments.

The impact and microfinance investment firm is collaborating with Bitfinex Securities to issue tokens that will be linked to capital raising for microfinance.

Lending by some microfinance institutions has had bad press in recent times, but the vast majority of those surveyed say the credit the sector provides, along with the associated wraparound services, are improving their lives.

The partnership will co-finance up to $500m of debt transactions to facilitate long-term sustainable development across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.

WFP BRIDGE, a newly launched funding mechanism, is now ready for capital from public and private investors interested in supporting SDG 2 – zero hunger.

We meet with the newly appointed managing director of FMO Investment Management, the investment arm of Dutch development bank FMO, to explore his vision for co-investment opportunities.

A just-released chapter of the latest Fiscal Monitor report by the IMF stresses that most of the investment needed to finance climate change mitigation initiatives in emerging and developing countries must come from the private sector.

The fund will provide growth capital and expertise for companies in consumer-driven sectors, while seeking to maximise impact, promote gender diversity and ensure sustainable growth. 

The $122m project provides much needed green energy to Djibouti, which relies on fossil fuel imports to supply ailing power stations, and would have been near-impossible to build without using blended finance.