On May 24 and 26, 2016, The GRI Club Infra held the first edition of GRI Infra South America, gathering more than 90 leaders and executives from the infrastructure segment from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, The United States, France, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay at the Plaza Hotel, in New York.

In 2016, the German-Africa Business Association (Afrika-Verein) and the European Investment Bank were invited for the 3rd time to their flagship meeting, “Africa Finance,” which was held on May 12 at the Hotel Mövenpick in Frankfurt. The focus was on the development of projects and accompanying funding opportunities in the development phase to the "bankable project".

We've combined our popular ‘Structured Trade & Export Finance’, ‘Trade Finance Latin America’ and ‘Development & Agency Finance’ conferences to bring you Export & Agency Finance Americas. Export & Agency Finance Americas brings together stakeholders from both the Americas and Europe to create an unparalleled networking experience for exporters, importers, financiers, ECAs, DFIs, multilaterals and insurers.

Washington, DC, March 8, 2016 – In honor of International Women's Day, MIGA—the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group—announced the launch of its Gender CEO Award recognizing a women leader among the agency's clients. The inaugural award was given today to Nourah Mehyar of NAFITH Logistics for her work integrating women staff in the logistics industry in Iraq.

Political risk can take many forms, from regulation and tax rises to geopolitical instability and cyber-attacks. Businesses can use knowledge of the political risks associated with their market to help them make better informed decisions on investment strategy and operational management.

It is with great excitement that we presented the definitive event for African export and project finance. TXF Africa 2016 focused on real African issues with attendance from the borrowers, exporters, sponsors, DFIs, MFIs, ECAs and commercial financiers doing business on the ground.

The third annual OECD-Euromoney Conference on Long-term Investment Financing took place at the Marriott Champs-Élysées Hotel on 19-20 November 2015. The OECD and Euromoney Conferences have co-hosted this successful event within the framework of the OECD Project on Institutional Investors and Long-term Investment for the third year running.

The seventh edition of the Africa Public Private Partnership (APPP) conference and showcase is a three day, Pan-African, infrastructure partnership meeting, focused on promoting infrastructure development and stronger PPP practices and partnerships in Africa. This meeting will provide a matchmaking platform for both project sponsors and financiers to collaboratively address the challenges and discuss opportunities in preparing, and implementing bankable and sustainable PPP projects in Africa.

Financial sector leaders and policymakers from across Africa and global market participants active in Africa gathered in Johannesburg on November 4-5, 2015 for the IIF’s Fourth Annual Africa Financial Summit, hosted by FNB, a division of FirstRand. The Summit examined the continent’s economic progress and explored options for policymakers and opportunities for investors in this dynamic region of the world.

This year yet again provided an agenda which was international in focus, turning the tables on the ‘conventional’ ECA finance conference approach, and addressing issues in a way that was solution driven and forward thinking. Moving away from just theory, senior speakers and moderators presented real case studies, shared best practice and always considered how the actions of today will affect the future of this industry.