Join us at the World Water Week! The right blend: Tailoring finance vehicles for context-specific success worldwaterweek.org/event/8467-the… OECD Development OECD Environment #WWWeek Sida Water.org

Water & sanitation have historically been financed by the public sector, but public finance alone will not be sufficient to achieve #SDG6. 💦🚽 #BlendedFinance can mobilise commercial finance to help bridge the financing gap. See new OECD report: oe.cd/bf-water #WWWeek

Join us online on 9 Sept to discuss #BlendedFinance & #Water #Investments. 💧💰 How can well-designed policies strengthen the enabling environment to crowd-in commercial capital & strengthen the financing systems? Register here👉 bit.ly/2lvks06

📽️Getting started with our #GreenTalks webinar on "Making Blended Finance Work for #Water and #Sanitation". Tune in to learn how blended #finance can help to deploy development finance more strategically to mobilise additional commercial finance. 💦💰 bit.ly/oecdgreentalks

Our paper on the mobilization effects of #MDB lending is now (conditionally) accepted at the World Bank Economic Review Giulia Lotti Alessandro Maffioli Rodolfo Stucchi

🚀Are you a business owner changing your business model to adapt to the #digital economy? 📩 Send us your 500-word story at [email protected] 🏆 Selected entrepreneurs will be special invitees to the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives Digital for SMEs Roundtable on 29 November➡️ oe.cd/2KM

Happy to read EU Council conclusions on #FinancialArchitecture for #development. This serves European #developmentfinance well: support for the recommended ST measures & steps toward serious reflection on institutional reform next year! data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/S… #EDFInetwork

Just published: short paper in the World Bank Economic Review, with Matteo Millone. We show how mandatory information sharing among lenders can help first-time borrowers by shifting collateral requirements from "hard" collateral to third-party guarantees: academic.oup.com/wber/advance-a…

NEWS | Memenich Re and FMO sign a USD 500 million Risk Sharing Framework Agreement to scale up impact investing. Read more: fmo.nl/news-detail/f5…

📢 ESMA publishes Sustainable Finance Strategy ℹ️Key priorities are transparency obligations, green bonds risk analysis, ESG investing, convergence of national supervisory practices on ESG factors, taxonomy, and supervision #ClimateAction #SusFinEU 🇪🇺 📄bit.ly/2S1qVh2

.OECD Development held the 3rd edition of the #PF4SD conference in #Paris last week. #blendedfinance was an important part of the agenda. Read my blog to learn about three key takeaways from the event. bit.ly/39kJYIX

The implementation date of outstanding #BaselIII standards has been deferred by one year to provide #banks and supervisors with additional capacity to respond immediately and effectively to the impact of #coronavirus #COVID19 bit.ly/2JgcLDP

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🆕 Aktuelles zur #Coronakrise: #Lockdown trifft Unternehmen mit Wucht. #Mittelstand büßt im März mindestens 75 Mrd. EUR ein! dpa berichtet. (Repräsentative Sonderbefragung KfW Bankengruppe-Mittelstandspanel) ▶️ Hier geht es zur vollständigen Studie: kfw.de/KfW-Konzern/Ne…

#Pressrelease Bank Lending Survey: German #banks tightened their #credit standards and lending terms and conditions further in the wake of the #coronavirus crisis bundesbank.de/content/831808 #covid19

Banks to book more than $50bn against bad loans 'The headline numbers mask dramatically different approaches across the industry, raising questions about how rigorous some banks are being in assessing possible future losses.' ft.com/content/c31db8… via Financial Times

The two BIS green bond funds, one in USD and the new one in EUR, will manage some $2 bn in green bonds for central banks, with the expectation that the funds will continue to grow considerably #GreenBonds #ReserveManagement #Sustainability #CentralBanks bit.ly/2M0IY70

🎉 Just launched! IFC unveils a new report showcasing the impact of #BlendedFinance in helping drive private sector investments in low-income countries. Read it here ⤵️bit.ly/36EA5r0

New LSE Business Review post on “Barriers to net zero: How firms can make or break the green transition” LSE Business Review The EBRD EBRD Green #greentransition #NetZero Ralph De Haas Mirabelle Muuls Ralf Martin

Timely discussions today dac-BIAC event.Sustainable &affordable access to #cleanenergy is critical for developing countries to achieve their #devgoals.Public&private sectors need to work together,take⬆️risk&innovate to mobilise⬆️finance&investment for the countries most in need.