IFC helps Hamkorbank manage currency risk and expand local currency lending
IFC will hedge Hamkorbank’s currency exposure for up to $40mn—the first international financial institution to provide such hedging instruments in Uzbekistan...
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Senegal Scaling Solar tender produces one of the lowest electricity costs in Africa
Scaling Solar is now developing over 1 gigawatt of solar power in partnership with four African countries – Zambia, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Senegal...
World Bank strategises enhanced living standards for Belarus
The strategy is fully aligned with the Program of Activities of the Government of the Republic of Belarus 2016–20...
Emerging markets make significant progress in sustainable-finance reforms, reports IFC
The play products made from sugarcane ‘is a great first step’ towards annihilation of plastic waste...
IFC financing advances record-setting scaling solar project in Zambia
The equity for the project is provided by Neoen/First Solar and the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia...
IFC arranges $150 million financing package for ABBANK to expand lending to SMEs
With this funding, ABBANK aims to triple its SME portfolio and quadruple the size of its lending to women-owned SMEs over a five-year period...
IFC bond funds Botswana Building Society expansion to promote financial inclusion
IFC investment in the Botswana Building Society comprises a senior loan equivalent to $25 million in local currency...
IFC and Green Climate Fund team up to boost climate-smart investment in emerging markets
Will support investments in climate change mitigation and adaption projects in developing countries...
BDO issues first green bond for $150 million for IFC in East Asia and the Pacific
The green bond will provide an alternative source of long-term green finance in the country and contribute to the Philippines’ target of reducing carbon emissions by 70 per cent by 2030...
New IFC, Mastercard Foundation study examines attitudes to mobile money in Africa
The study focuses on four countries of varying degrees of DFS market maturity...