Dublin-headquartered SMBC Aviation Capital has closed a $600 million syndicated financing transaction, comprising a $200 million term loan and a $400 million revolving...

The Asian Development Bank has hired Thomas Kessler, a long-time Swiss Re executive, into a newly created role of Principal Disaster Risk Insurance & Finance...

Alternative lender Tienda Pago, which operates in Peru and Mexico, has secured $7.5 million in Series A financing from Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors, Oikocredit, Accion...

Political violence risks are rising globally due to geopolitical tensions, a weakening of liberal democratic governance, and the repercussive effects of chronic conflicts...

High demand for exports and rapidly expanding domestic demand helped growth pick up across most of the economies in developing Asia, according to the Asian Development...

NatWest has added invoice finance platform MarketInvoice to its Capital Connections panel, which helps small and medium-sized enterprises unable to borrow from banks get...

Turkish company Metcap Energy Investments and Fusion Dynamics of Qatar have formed joint venture Metcap Petrochemicals to invest in Turkish gas projects. The venture...

Scatec Solar has reached financial close on three South African solar projects – Sirius Solar, Dyason’s Klip 1 and Dyason’s Klip 2 –...

Saudi Aramco and Total signed a memorandum of understanding to construct a petrochemical complex to be integrated downstream of the Satorp refinery in Jubail, Saudi...

Celeo Redes Brasil – a joint venture between Elecnor (51%) and APG Asset Management (49%) – has won clean power supply contracts for six solar PV plants...

Following the signing of a 20-year PPA with Eskom last week for the 100MW Redstone Solar Thermal Power project in South Africa, project sponsors SolarReserve...

International trading houses have stopped buying aluminum from Moscow-headquartered UC Rusal as US sanctions on the company sent shockwaves through the market for the...

Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy will launch the A-6 energy auction on 31 August 2018. The tender will include wind, hydro, thermal plants that use biomass...

Sponsors of the 670MW $1.3 billion Nam Theun 1 hydro power plant – EGCO Group (25%), Phonesack Group (60%) and EDL-Gen (15%) – have reached...

Noble Group has announced it is receiving growing support for its $3.4 billion restructuring plan after more than 70% of creditors holding the majority of its...

Copper prices will rise this year as investors look past the ample global supplies and market turbulence to focus on the metal's long-term outlook, according to...

Standard Chartered has revealed that Gautam Jain - currently Global Head, Digitisation and Client Access (DCA), Transaction Banking - has joined SC Ventures, effective...

Commodity trader Glencore - which owns an 8.75% stake in Russian aluminium producer UC Rusal - saw its share price drop nearly 2% after the US said it was sanctioning...

Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (EGPNA) has started construction of the 185MW HillTopper wind farm supported by two corporate offtakers. The $325 million project in...

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is publishing a call to establish interest in commercial offshore wind energy leases for the Fairways North, Fairways...