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The African Development Bank has become the first supranational bank to use a securitization sold to private investors to free up balance sheet capacity. The deal, four years in the making, demonstrates a new technique that could expand development banks’ firepower to promote development.
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The African Development Bank’s $1bn synthetic securitization is not its first risk transfer transaction, and will not be its last. The bank has marked itself out as a leader in this sphere, though the effort to get such techniques to work is also highly collaborative.
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The European Commission has unveiled a portfolio of financial guarantee transactions it is doing to support development in Africa and regions bordering the EU. Among them are two programmes conducted by the African Development Bank, including its new synthetic securitisation.
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Assets allocated to US exchange traded products and funds hit a record high in August, after assets left the space when volatility returned to US markets in February.
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Egypt’s Oilex has signed a E£2.4bn ($134m) loan from regional lenders, as the country continues to draw in international financing after a stamp of approval from the IMF.
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The African Development Bank is planning to issue its first benchmark syndicated green bond since 2015, in what is likely to the issuer’s final syndication of the year