Blended Finance

  • BII and PIDG's GuarantCo back South African renewables company with $100m

    05 December 2024
  • Public financing being 'wasted' on commercially viable nature projects, says EIB

    03 December 2024

    Public financiers need to ensure they are not "wasting" grant financing on nature projects that could be commercially successful, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has said.

  • USAID provides $750k to Deetken's gender fund

    03 December 2024
  • Australia invests in HSBC, Temasek-led blended finance fund

    03 December 2024
  • Barbados signs 'blue' sustainability-linked loan in debt-for-nature swap

    02 December 2024

    Barbados has signed a sustainability-linked loan (SLL) as part of a $300 million debt-for-nature swap which will generate interest cost savings used to finance water-related climate resilience projects in the Caribbean country.

  • Blended finance fund backs $1.2bn African telecoms bond

    02 December 2024
  • Ninety One raises $260m for third Africa credit fund

    29 November 2024
  • Guarantco guarantees catfish bond

    28 November 2024

    GuarantCo has provided a guarantee for green bonds issued by a Vietnamese catfish producer.

  • Bahamas signs 'ground-breaking' $300m debt-for-nature loan deal

    22 November 2024

    The Bahamas has signed a $300 million loan with Standard Chartered as part of a ground-breaking marine conservation-focused debt conversion transaction developed with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

  • COP29 could be remembered as the 'blended finance COP', AllianceBernstein says

    21 November 2024

    COP29 could be remembered as "the blended finance COP" if its climate finance pledges are matched with sufficient ambition in the next round of national climate targets, AllianceBernstein has suggested.