Every month since Russia's full-scale invasion, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) officials have sat down with their Ukrainian partner banks to ask the same question: where are the gaps?
Those routine questions have become an unlikely source of financial innovation. As Ukrainian banks identify problems that existing financial products can't solve, the EBRD has begun developing new wartime lending tools to fill them.
The International Finance Corporation plans to launch a €50 million donor-funded program as a pilot for its proposed Viability Gap Facility meant to make certain Ukrainian infrastructure public-private partnerships more commercially viable, a senior IFC official said. The pilot is expected to cover two or three projects, with
Ukraine needs stronger capacity to prepare and implement projects to accelerate the deployment of reconstruction financing, said a senior European Investment Bank official. “Public sector capabilities still need to grow,” Matteo Rivellini, head of the EIB’s Ukraine Investment Team, told Ukraine Rebuild Newswire. “We have, let's say,
The International Finance Corporation plans to launch a €50 million donor-funded program as a pilot for its proposed Viability Gap Facility meant to make certain Ukrainian infrastructure public-private partnerships more commercially viable, a senior IFC official said. The pilot is expected to cover two or three projects, with
