IFC and the Digital East Fund of Earlybird Venture Capital have invested $6.8m in EMBonds, a London-based electronic marketplace for emerging market bonds, to support its expansion.
The renewable energy sector in Tanzania is both awash with opportunities and ripe for investment, Kurt Lonsway, AfDB Division Manager for Environment and Climate Change, has said.
Demand for emerging markets infrastructure is increasing and changing the nature of sovereign collaboration, according to the Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study 2015.
The world’s six large multilateral development banks (MDBs) delivered $4.2bn in financing last year to help African economies mitigate and adapt to the challenges of climate change.
The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) and the Banco Nacional de Investimento (BNI) have agreed to cooperate in private sector development in Mozambique.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Central Bank of Congo have signed an agreement that enables IFC to swap US dollars for Congolese francs.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Chinese multinational construction and engineering company, CITIC Construction have launched a $300m investment platform, CITICC (Africa) Holding, to develop affordable housing in Sub-Saharan Africa.
African and top global Chief Executive Officers have launched a Continental Business Network (CBN) to fast-track high-level private sector investment into Africa’s regional infrastructure.
US-headquartered companies has led as the largest investors into Africa last year, launching 101 FDI projects, and accounting for 13.8% of total FDI projects in Africa, an increase from a 9.8% share in 2013, according to EY’s 2015 Africa attractiveness survey.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has invested $10m in Wamda Capital, a venture capital fund that supports promising technology companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed two loans and a letter of agreement with Egypt worth $140m - $90m from the AfDB window and $50m loan from the Africa Growing Together Fund (AGTF).
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), parent company of the Ecobank Group, have jointly launched a $110m risk-sharing facility that will increase access to finance for small and medium sized enterprises in fragile and conflict-affected states in West and Central Africa.
Omidyar Network has invested in Hotels.ng, the largest hotel-booking platform in Nigeria, which provides an online marketplace to connect consumers to more than 14,000 small and medium hotels in the country, most with no prior digital presence.
CDC Group, the UK development finance institution, has committed $75m to the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund (PRIF), a joint initiative established by Remgro and Phuthuma Nhleko.
