Archive

  • Ashmore's approach to transforming EMDE public debt markets

    06 February 2025

    Ashmore will launch its debut Impact Debt fund later this year, targeting EMDE hard currency fixed income, write Callum Thomas, Simon Cooke and Ben Underhill

  • To support climate adaptation, experienced fund managers must take the lead

    03 February 2025

    We need to see more money flowing towards adaptation, urgently, writes Regina Rossmann

  • From concept to catalyst: ILX's strategy for sustainable investment in emerging markets

    30 January 2025

    ILX has created a replicable and scalable model that can be adapted to various contexts, write Callum Thomas and Sofía Vega Núñez

  • Scottish National Investment Bank eyes pension fund as co-investors

    30 January 2025

    Its new investment arm aims to encourage pension funds to allocate capital, Sandy MacDonald tells Jennifer Forrest

  • Hedging currency risk to aid green growth

    29 January 2025

    The IADB and Brazilian government's Eco Invest Programme is turning currency risk into opportunity, write Paul Horrocks, Callum Thomas, Anderson Caputo, Rafael Cavazzoni, Orlando de Souza and Mario Augusto Gouvea de Almeida

  • Credit rating agencies key to unlocking blended finance, says Allianz GI

    27 January 2025

    Credit rating agencies are too negative on their assessment of blended finance structures, which is hindering the flows of climate finance to the emerging markets, Allianz Global Investors has claimed.

  • Unlocking growth through catalytic technical assistance

    24 January 2025

    The lessons from Ukraine's Agricultural crop receipt programme are explored by Callum Thomas, Kyrylo Mukhomedzyanov and Christian Brändli

  • To mobilize private capital for sustainable development, we need standardization at scale

    23 January 2025

    The impact of standardized Private Investment Mobilization Models could be transformative, writes Chris Clubb

  • How development finance can increase energy access in Africa

    22 January 2025

    BII's Leslie Maasdorp outlines some of the steps that could help bring the benefits of electricity to 300 million more Africans by the end of the decade

  • Comment: Why isn't blended finance working?

    21 January 2025

    There is a long way to go to plug the funding gap for the Sustainable Development Goals, writes Peter Cripps