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Mobilising private finance to address the biodiversity crisis
31 March 2025Evidence of private sector momentum in scaling biodiversity funding is increasing, but not fast enough, write Frank Rijsberman, Juan Casado Asensio and Dominique Blaquier
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Blended finance in fragile contexts: Ukraine as a test case
27 March 2025An OECD and Environmental Finance conference discussed the role of blended finance in crises and conflict-affected contexts, using Ukraine as an example. Romina Bandura and Emilia Stazi summarise
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Unlocking local currency finance: The EBRD's SME local currency programme
04 March 2025The development bank's programme is helping to strengthen financial markets, writes Thea Kokhreidze and Callum Thomas
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Disasters and currency risk: implications for development and climate finance
21 February 2025Foreign exchange risk is a development risk, and tackling it should be a core pillar of global efforts to build resilience in disaster-prone economies, write Ulrich Volz, Yuen Lo, Harald Hirschhofer and Callum Thomas
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SLBs: 'Flight to quality' amid complexity challenge could be a positive
12 February 2025The underappreciated complexity of the sustainability-linked bond (SLB) has played a major role in the issuance decline in recent years, but...
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Ashmore's approach to transforming EMDE public debt markets
06 February 2025Ashmore will launch its debut Impact Debt fund later this year, targeting EMDE hard currency fixed income, write Callum Thomas, Simon Cooke and Ben Underhill
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Reform MDBs to do more transaction emerging market currencies, says OECD report
05 February 2025Multilateral development banks (MDBs) should be reformed to allow them to facilitate local currency debt issuance and financing, to help overcome the currency risk preventing capital flowing to emerging markets ...
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Amoral financial markets need to be paid to invest more in emerging economies, says Aviva
04 February 2025From Jennifer Forrest in Paris
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From concept to catalyst: ILX's strategy for sustainable investment in emerging markets
30 January 2025ILX has created a replicable and scalable model that can be adapted to various contexts, write Callum Thomas and Sofía Vega Núñez
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Hedging currency risk to aid green growth
29 January 2025The 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