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Social Finance First: Standard Bank Pioneers $29 Million Helios Towers Facility
Standard Bank has launched its first social documentary credit facility, providing Helios Towers with a $29m trade finance solution structured under the Loan Market Association's social loan principles.
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- Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MIGA, Deutsche Bank Partner to Increase Trade Finance in Frontier and Emerging Markets with EUR 1 Billion Guarantee Platform
The platform is not only seeking to expand access to trade finance but also has targets to direct a meaningful share of the trade finance volume enabled by MIGA's participation toward priority areas, including International Development Association (IDA) countries and Fragile and Conflict-affected Situations (FCS), small and medium enterprises (SMEs), agriculture, health, and water.
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- Finance
- Region
- Global
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Analysis: Green Crime Goes Global
Environmental crime has become so extensive that it is reshaping the global policy agenda, evolving from a niche concern to an urgent topic of international diplomacy.
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- Environment, Finance, Technology
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- Global
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ADB Approves $50 Million Loan to Modernize Nepal’s Customs, Boost Trade and Jobs
Aligned with Nepal’s Sixteenth Plan and broader efforts to promote private sector-led growth, diversify the economy, and strengthen resilience, the reforms support the implementation of the Government of Nepal’s Customs Reform and Modernization Plan, Trade Logistics Policy, and new Industrial and Logistics Trade Master Plan.
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- South Asia
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Mercy Corps Ventures invests in Logidoo
Logidoo’s platform helps businesses plan, manage, and track shipments across key trade corridors.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NiDCOM, Afretrade Launch $500 Billion Diaspora Investment Initiative to Empower African SMEs
The initiative seeks to harness the growing economic influence of Africans in the diaspora to drive investment, entrepreneurship, trade and sustainable development across the continent.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Thunes and Vodacom Tanzania Launch Cross-Border M-Pesa Payments for Uganda and China
Thanks to the collaboration, Vodacom customers in Tanzania can now seamlessly pay merchants in Uganda and China directly from their mobile phones.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zambia Blasts the US Over a $2 Billion Health Deal in Exchange for Critical Minerals
Some African leaders and health experts have criticized the new U.S. stance and its demands for sensitive health data in exchange for badly needed support for health systems strained by the Trump administration’s dismantling of foreign aid.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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