Digital Asset Banking Infrastructure Arrives for the Real Economy

Digital Asset Banking Infrastructure Arrives for the Real Economy Financial technology rarely matters to construction until it changes how projects get funded, paid and insured. That’s exactly where the latest integration between Stablecore and Jack Henry’s Fintech Integration Network begins to land. Rather than being another cryptocurrency headline, the development effectively plugs digital asset… Read more…

Vietnam Pushes Ahead With Transformational North South High Speed Railway

Vietnam Pushes Ahead With Transformational North South High Speed Railway Vietnam’s proposed North South high speed railway is moving steadily through feasibility assessment, marking one of the most consequential infrastructure decisions in Southeast Asia this decade. The Ministry of Construction has formally responded to expressions of interest from 13 domestic and international investors for the… Read more…

EIB Investment Push Accelerates Czech Infrastructure Modernisation

EIB Investment Push Accelerates Czech Infrastructure Modernisation In 2025, the European Investment Bank Group channelled €1.93 billion into projects across Czechia, reinforcing a pattern that has quietly reshaped the country’s infrastructure landscape over the past decade. The figure alone matters less than where the capital landed. Rail corridors, power grids, housing and municipal upgrades domi… Read more…

Bi Oceanic Corridor Financing Connects Paraguay To Global Trade Routes

Bi Oceanic Corridor Financing Connects Paraguay To Global Trade Routes South America has long faced a paradox. The continent is rich in agricultural output, minerals and energy resources, yet moving those goods efficiently across the Andes to global markets remains expensive and slow. Maritime routes around the southern cone or reliance on congested Atlantic ports … Read more…

Disaster Intelligence as the Backbone of Resilient Economies

Disaster Intelligence as the Backbone of Resilient Economies Across Asia and the Pacific, disasters are no longer occasional shocks. They have become recurring economic events that quietly erode development gains year after year. Floods, cyclones, heatwaves and landslides regularly interrupt transport corridors, damage energy networks, halt construction activity and disrupt supply chains that unde… Read more…

Kenya Advances Dual Carriageway Plans for Northern Corridor Trade

Kenya Advances Dual Carriageway Plans for Northern Corridor Trade Western Kenya’s busiest international highway is edging closer to a long-awaited transformation. The Government of Kenya, through its Public-Private Partnerships Directorate and the Kenya National Highways Authority, has partnered with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to initiate preparatory pre-feasibility studies for upgra… Read more…

CABEI Deepens Strategic Investment in the Dominican Republic’s Infrastructure

CABEI Deepens Strategic Investment in the Dominican Republic’s Infrastructure The scale of multilateral development finance flowing into the Dominican Republic has grown steadily in recent years, and the latest figures from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration underline just how significant that relationship has become. By the end of 2025, the Bank had approved … Read more…

Deepwater Gas and Digital Drilling Strengthen Indonesia Energy Security

Deepwater Gas and Digital Drilling Strengthen Indonesia Energy Security Indonesia’s offshore sector is once again in the spotlight as SLB secures multiple offshore drilling services contracts from Mubadala Energy for the Tangkulo deepwater natural gas development in the Andaman Sea. At first glance, it is another services award in a competitive global market. Look closer, … Read more…

Capital Planning in the Age of AI Infrastructure

Capital Planning in the Age of AI Infrastructure Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold that few in the construction and infrastructure world can now afford to ignore. What began as an operational tool embedded in software platforms has rapidly evolved into a capital-intensive infrastructure challenge, one that increasingly resembles power generation, transport logistics, or telecoms &#82… Read more…

Building Coherence into Metro Manila’s Mass Transit

Building Coherence into Metro Manila’s Mass Transit Metro Manila’s rail network is once again at the centre of a policy debate that could reshape how urban transport concessions are structured across Southeast Asia. The Philippines’ Department of Transportation is reviewing an unsolicited proposal from a private rail operator to consolidate and manage the operations of … Read more…

Rethinking a Strategic Spine in Northern Chile’s Road Network

Rethinking a Strategic Spine in Northern Chile’s Road Network Northern Chile’s transport corridors sit at the crossroads of global trade, extractive industries and regional development. Few routes are as symbolically and economically important as Route 5, the backbone of the Pan-American Highway as it cuts through the Atacama Desert and links port cities, mining hubs … Read more…

Strategic Investment Set to Reshape Serbia’s Road Infrastructure

Strategic Investment Set to Reshape Serbia’s Road Infrastructure Across Europe, road networks are quietly being redefined as strategic national assets rather than passive conduits for traffic. Serbia is no exception. With freight flows intensifying across the Western Balkans and mobility expectations rising well beyond major cities, the condition of local and national roads has become &#8230… Read more…

Public Capital Unlocking Private Energy Investment in Kenya

Public Capital Unlocking Private Energy Investment in Kenya Kenya’s clean energy transition has quietly become one of the most credible and commercially grounded success stories in global infrastructure. While many countries continue to grapple with intermittency, grid instability and volatile fuel costs, Kenya has pursued a different route, one anchored in geothermal baseload power. The … Read more…

Rome Metro Line C Gains Momentum With €776m Northern Extension Contract

Rome Metro Line C Gains Momentum With €776m Northern Extension Contract Rome’s long-running Metro Line C programme has taken another decisive step forward, with Webuild and partner Vianini Lavori, operating as part of the Metro C Consortium, awarded a €776 million (US$902 million) contract to design and build the T1 section in the city’s northern … Read more…

Northern Powerhouse Rail’s £45 Billion Blueprint for the North

Northern Powerhouse Rail’s £45 Billion Blueprint for the North After years of political noise, shifting plans and regional frustration, the UK Government has pushed Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) back towards the centre of national infrastructure policy, announcing a multi-billion-pound investment programme designed to reshape rail connectivity across the North of England. Working with Trans… Read more…

Africa’s Green Economy Summit 2026 Targets Bankable Climate Infrastructure

Africa’s Green Economy Summit 2026 Targets Bankable Climate Infrastructure Africa’s climate story has never been short on ambition. Across the continent, governments, development institutions, and private sector leaders have spent the better part of a decade building strategies for decarbonisation, resilience, and sustainable growth. Yet the hard truth is that ambition alone doesn’t lay transmissi… Read more…

EU and EIB Finance Cabo Verde’s Sustainable Port Transformation

EU and EIB Finance Cabo Verde’s Sustainable Port Transformation Cabo Verde’s future has always been tied to the sea. For an island nation spread across the Atlantic, ports aren’t simply logistics assets, they’re the connective tissue that holds communities together, keeps shelves stocked, moves people between islands, and underpins tourism and trade. That reality is … Read more…

Kyrgyz Republic Modernising Ageing Power Infrastructure with EBRD Support

Kyrgyz Republic Modernising Ageing Power Infrastructure with EBRD Support Keeping the lights on sounds like a simple promise, until a country’s power network starts showing its age. Across much of the world, electricity grids are becoming the quiet bottleneck of economic growth: they sit between new generation capacity and end users, yet too often they’re … Read more…

VINCI Expands New Zealand Footprint with Fletcher Construction Acquisition

VINCI Expands New Zealand Footprint with Fletcher Construction Acquisition VINCI Construction’s agreement to acquire Fletcher Construction is more than another overseas deal on a balance sheet. It’s a clear signal that New Zealand’s infrastructure market has shifted into a new phase, one where scale, delivery capability and technical breadth matter more than ever. Subject to … Read more…

InvestEU Helps Scale High Power EV Charging From the Baltic to the Adriatic

InvestEU Helps Scale High Power EV Charging From the Baltic to the Adriatic Central and Eastern Europe is about to get a sizeable boost in electric-vehicle charging capacity, and not in the slow, piecemeal way drivers have grown used to. A €35 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to network operator Eleport will … Read more…

The $2.5 Trillion Trade Finance Gap Holding Back Global Supply Chains

The $2.5 Trillion Trade Finance Gap Holding Back Global Supply Chains Global supply chains are moving again, but not always smoothly. After years of disruption, companies are diversifying markets, reshoring or nearshoring parts of production, and building new trade routes that reduce overdependence on single regions. That reshuffle should be good news for manufacturers, logistics … Read more…

Uzbekistan Scales Solar Energy Project With Battery Storage and Grid Links

Uzbekistan Scales Solar Energy Project With Battery Storage and Grid Links Uzbekistan’s renewable energy ambitions are no longer confined to targets on paper or pilot projects tucked away from the realities of national grid operations. With a new US$30 million financing package agreed between the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company … Read more…

WEMAG Secures €220m to Accelerate Grid Upgrades in Northern Germany

WEMAG Secures €220m to Accelerate Grid Upgrades in Northern Germany Germany’s energy transition has never been short on ambition, but it’s the infrastructure underneath it all that decides whether progress will be smooth or painful. That’s why a new €220 million financing agreement between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and WEMAG deserves attention well beyond … Read more…

Egypt’s Obelisk Solar Project Secures US$150m EIB Financing

Egypt’s Obelisk Solar Project Secures US$150m EIB Financing Egypt’s energy transition has moved beyond ambition and into execution, with the Obelisk solar photovoltaic project in Qena Governorate emerging as one of the most consequential clean power developments on the African continent. Backed by US$150 million in financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB Global) and … Read more…

Kazakhstan’s Almaty Railway Bypass Secures US$300m Financing

Kazakhstan’s Almaty Railway Bypass Secures US$300m Financing Kazakhstan has spent the past decade positioning itself as a practical bridge between East and West, but bridges only matter if they don’t choke at the entrance. Freight volumes don’t wait politely at city limits, and when trains are forced to thread their way through dense urban networks, … Read more…

EBRD Financing Unlocks Heavy Lift Infrastructure Across Central Asia

EBRD Financing Unlocks Heavy Lift Infrastructure Across Central Asia Across Central Asia, a quiet but decisive shift is under way. Wind farms are rising across open steppe, ports and rail corridors are being upgraded, and the logistics chains that once served only extractive industries are being repurposed for renewable energy and international trade. None of … Read more…

EU Backs Rail Upgrade in Montenegro to Bolster Balkan Connectivity

EU Backs Rail Upgrade in Montenegro to Bolster Balkan Connectivity The European Union has committed a substantial €175.6 million package to reconstruct 39 kilometres of the Bar-Golubovci railway line, a critical segment of Rail Route 4 within the extended Trans-European Transport Network core corridors. This initiative links Belgrade to Montenegro’s Port of Bar, forging a … Read more…

Bentley Systems Expands Asset Analytics Capabilities with Strategic Acquisitions

Bentley Systems Expands Asset Analytics Capabilities with Strategic Acquisitions Bentley Systems has taken a decisive step to reinforce its position in infrastructure asset intelligence with the acquisition of Talon Aerolytics and the technology and technical expertise of Pointivo. Both transactions were completed in December and are squarely focused on expanding Bentley’s Asset Analytics portfoli… Read more…

Resetting the Clock on West Yorkshire Mass Transit

Resetting the Clock on West Yorkshire Mass Transit West Yorkshire’s long anticipated mass transit scheme has entered a more deliberate phase, with the UK government and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority revising the programme timeline for what is now a £2.5 billion investment. Full completion and the start of passenger services are expected in the … Read more…

Brazil Reopens Consultation for Strategic Port Lease at São Sebastião

Brazil Reopens Consultation for Strategic Port Lease at São Sebastião Brazil’s port sector rarely stands still for long, yet some decisions carry more weight than others. The reopening of public consultation on the leasing of area SSB01 at the Organized Port of São Sebastião sits firmly in that category. Approved by Brazil’s National Waterway Transportation … Read more…

Major Stations, Rail and Systems Contract Opens for Toronto Subway Expansion

Major Stations, Rail and Systems Contract Opens for Toronto Subway Expansion Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have taken a decisive step forward in delivering one of the Greater Toronto Area’s most strategically important transit investments. With the release of a Request for Qualifications for the Stations, Rail and Systems package of the Yonge North Subway Extension, … Read more…

Renewable Energy and Logistics Infrastructure Investments in Kazakhstan

Renewable Energy and Logistics Infrastructure Investments in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan’s push to modernise its energy and logistics backbone has taken a decisive step forward with new financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The multilateral lender has agreed to provide up to €25 million in long term funding to Sarens Kazakhstan, reinforcing the country’s … Read more…

EBRD Investment Securing Water and Agriculture in Morocco

EBRD Investment Securing Water and Agriculture in Morocco Water has always shaped Morocco’s agricultural heartlands, but in recent decades the balance has tilted dangerously. Declining rainfall, rising temperatures and relentless pressure on groundwater have left entire regions exposed. Against that backdrop, the third and final phase of the Saïss Water Conservation Programme stands out as … Read more…

Investing in Power for Saudi Arabia’s Mountain Economy

Investing in Power for Saudi Arabia’s Mountain Economy High above the Red Sea coast, where the Sarawat Mountains reshape long-held assumptions about Saudi Arabia’s geography, Soudah Peaks is emerging as one of the Kingdom’s most technically demanding destination developments. Rising to 3,015 metres above sea level, the project occupies a rare climatic and geographic position, … Read more…

ADB Expands Finance and Infrastructure Investment in Papua New Guinea

ADB Expands Finance and Infrastructure Investment in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea stands at a pivotal moment in its development trajectory. With a rapidly growing population, vast natural resources, and deeply entrenched geographic challenges, the country faces a familiar dilemma across the Pacific region: how to translate economic potential into inclusive, resilient growth. In … Read more…

Poland’s Offshore Wind Ambitions Gain Momentum with EIB Finance

Poland’s Offshore Wind Ambitions Gain Momentum with EIB Finance The European Investment Bank will commit €600 million to the construction of BC-Wind, a 390 MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea that is set to become a cornerstone of Poland’s clean energy transition. Once operational, the project is expected to supply electricity to close … Read more…

Strategic Finance Behind Europe’s Lithium Energy Ambitions

Strategic Finance Behind Europe’s Lithium Energy Ambitions Europe’s race to secure critical raw materials has taken a decisive step forward with the European Investment Bank agreeing to provide €250 million in project financing for Vulcan Energy’s Phase One Lionheart Project in Germany’s Upper Rhine Valley. Valued at approximately €2 billion, the project represents one of … Read more…

EBRD Road Finance Reinforces Moldova’s Gateway to European Markets

EBRD Road Finance Reinforces Moldova’s Gateway to European Markets Moldova’s road network has moved back into the spotlight following a fresh commitment from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. A further €150 million project finance package has been agreed to rehabilitate and modernise key road corridors across the country, reinforcing Moldova’s position as a … Read more…

ADB Financing Climate Resilient Roads in Timor Leste

ADB Financing Climate Resilient Roads in Timor Leste The Government of Timor-Leste and the Asian Development Bank have formalised a significant financing package aimed at restoring and futureproofing a vital section of the country’s national road network. The agreement brings together a $75 million loan and a $3 million grant, focused on rehabilitating a strategic … Read more…

IsDB Mobilises $1.36 Billion in Development Finance for the Region

IsDB Mobilises $1.36 Billion in Development Finance for the Region The Islamic Development Bank has approved a substantial new financing package worth approximately US$ 1.365 billion, marking one of the most wide ranging rounds of development support in recent months. Endorsed during the 363rd meeting of the Board of Executive Directors, the approvals span 14 … Read more…