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Blended Knowledge by GuarantCo
by GuarantCo
This podcast series focuses on topics that are critical to help build local capital markets in Africa and Asia, with the aim to create a significant impact on people’s lives through innovative, long-term local currency credit solutions to support infrastructure projects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Fixing the Grid: How Women Are Making Pakistan’s Energy Safer for All
The electrical grid in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, faces many challenges. Due to rapid, unplanned urban growth, widespread poverty and the system of overhead cables, people regularly steal power from the grid and electrocutions are common. That’s why K-Electric has reinvented the way it…
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Partnering with financiers to help close the infrastructure funding gap
The infrastructure funding gap in emerging markets is huge, estimated annually to be up to $107.5 billion in Africa and $136 billion in Asia (excluding India). To meet that demand, banks and institutional investors are fundamental - that’s why they are the primary beneficiaries of GuarantCo’s...
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Mobilising capital for ESG projects through certified green bonds
Green bonds are one of the most attractive investment vehicles when it comes to sustainability, accounting for 54 percent of total sustainable issuances. So what makes them so effective, and why are they so suited for mobilising capital for environmental projects at scale? In this episode we…
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Enhancing secondary market liquidity to increase infrastructure funding
Secondary markets are a vital part of bridging the infrastructure funding gap in emerging and frontier markets. Bond instruments often lock investors in for many years, but secondary markets add a layer of flexibility. By making it easier for market participants to buy and sell loans or bonds, we...
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Replicability: The Key to Delivering Transactions Faster
New and innovative infrastructure projects take a long time to get off the ground, often 2 years or more. But with the pace of development required to improve the lives of people across Africa and Asia, those timescales aren’t feasible. So how do we provide this much-needed, sustainable...
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Institutional Investors Essential To Closing The Infrastructure Funding Gap
Institutional investors are essential to closing the infrastructure funding gap. But right now they contribute a tiny fraction of financing to infrastructure projects in low- and middle-income countries. So how do we change that? In this episode we explore how blended finance structures and...
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A history of innovative credit solutions
Using innovative credit solutions has been in GuarantCo’s DNA since closing its first transaction in 2005. As we continue to pioneer, we are helping to boost capital market capabilities and accelerate much needed development impact for the people who need it most. This episode focuses on the…
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Developing the local currency bond market in Vietnam
Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen impressive and rapid growth in Vietnam’s local currency corporate bond market, with much more potential still to be unlocked. Thanks to a number of catalytic and first-of-its-kind transactions, GuarantCo’s contribution to the growth of the bond market is helping...
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Delivering the next generation of onshore local currency bonds
Local currency bonds are fast becoming a crucial way of supporting infrastructure project development in lower income countries across Africa and Asia. In this episode, we discuss the rapid growth of the bond market, why it’s become such an attractive option, and how bonds address the funding...
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How guarantors are critical to bridging the infrastructure financing gap
Given the scale of the infrastructure funding gap throughout Africa and Asia, it will take a variety of synergistic solutions to sustainably address this funding shortfall. One such solution, that could hasten the closing of this gap quicker than any other, is the increased use of guarantees to...
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Capacity building to bridge the infrastructure funding gap in Africa
According to the Africa Development Bank, Africa’s infrastructure requirements range between USD 130 and USD 170 billion with an infrastructure funding gap of USD 68 to USD 108 billion. These figures demonstrate the critical need to provide essential infrastructure to local people to ensure...
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Green Capital Market Capability Building in Vietnam
The need for sustainable infrastructure in Vietnam is rapidly growing. Whilst the conditions are ripe for the growth of green and climate instruments in the country, local stakeholders continue to have reservations about its necessity. In July 2021, GuarantCo, through the PIDG Institute…
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Grant funding to Acre Impact Capital
When GuarantCo can't directly fill a gap in an emerging market, it teams up with PIDG Technical Assistance to provide a grant to a company that can. By bridging these gaps and supporting new local champions, grant funding makes a real, tangible difference to people's lives, and helps to improve...
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Building Partnerships
Infrastructure development is a crucial driver of economic growth, job creation, and poverty alleviation across Africa and Asia. But infrastructure projects in lower income countries are experiencing a growing funding gap from both public and private sources, estimated to be around 1.3 trillion...
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InfraCredit Nigeria
This episode features the role of the Nigerian Infrastructure Credit Enhancement Facility (InfraCredit) in supporting the development of local capital markets. GuarantCo and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) established InfraCredit in 2017 to act as a market champion for the...
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Local Currency Financing
This episode explores how enabling local currency credit solutions addresses the infrastructure financing gap. Any solution promoting long-term local currency financing needs to prioritise capacity building across local capital markets. This is crucial to solve the largely unaddressed challenges…
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Blended Finance
This episode explores how blended finance can support the development of local capital markets in lower income countries. Specialised blending facilities, such as GuarantCo, support the reduction of local currency risks for infrastructure projects, help crowd in private sector investors and…
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This podcast series focuses on topics that are critical to help build local capital markets in Africa and Asia, with the aim to create a significant impact on people’s lives through innovative, long-term local currency credit solutions to support infrastructure projects.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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