Glossary
- Capital: Capital is the financial resources, including money and assets that your project requires or has to hand.
- Capital Raising: Capital raising involves raising funds from investors to finance your development project.
- Cash Flow: Cash flow is the amount of cash that your project has used during a specific time-period.
- Commercial Contract: A commercial contract is a legally binding agreement between two or more parties that outlines the terms and conditions related to a transaction.
- Corporate Governance: Corporate governance is the system of rules, practices, and processes through which your project operates and seeks to achieve its objectives, balanced with the needs of its various stakeholders.
- Credit Risk: Credit risk is the potential financial loss that can take place if contractual obligations are not met.
- Debt Financing: Debt financing helps your project raise capital by borrowing money from lenders, and includes terms and conditions for paying the money back.
- Development Finance Institutions (DFIs): Development finance institutions (DFIs) focus on supporting emerging economies and developing countries, by providing long-term capital and technical assistance.
- Due Diligence: Due diligence involves investigating and assessing all available data, to evaluate a project’s ability to meet its objectives, in various respects.
- Equity Financing: Equity financing helps your project raise capital by exchanging shares or partial ownership of it with its investors and collaborators.
- Energy: Energy is also known as electricity or power, and is essential infrastructure across the globe. Electricity infrastructure includes all physical items that are needed to generate and deliver electricity.
- Environmental: In terms of your project’s ESG objectives, environmental objectives consider the environmental factors related to your project, and how they affect your project, its surroundings and operations.
- ESG: ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance.
- Extractives: Extractives are non-renewable natural resources, including oil, gas, minerals, and metals.
- Export Credit Agencies (ECAs): Export credit agencies (ECA) provide financing, guarantees, and insurance to support cross-border trade.
- Export Finance: Export finance enables cross-border trade by providing funding to exporters.
- Financial Advisory: Financial advisory services give your project guidance and advice on financial matters.
- Financial Modelling: Financial modelling creates a mathematical representation of your project’s financial viability, and analyses its ability to succeed.
- Green Bonds: Green bonds are an environmentally conscious financial agreement, focused on supporting projects that help countries and regions transition towards producing lower carbon emissions and enhance the sustainability of their economies.
- Import Finance: Import finance enables cross-border trade by providing funding to importers.
- Infrastructure: Infrastructure is the physical and organisational structures and facilities needed to operate a project, business, country, region, or sector.
- Junior Debt: Junior debt is also known as subordinated debt, and is considered to be lower in priority for payment, in terms of paying back debt.
- Limited Recourse Financing: Limited recourse financing is where lenders have limited claims on the assets and cash flows of the project.
- Mezzanine Financing: Mezzanine financing combines debt and equity financing.
- Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs): MDBs provide financial and technical assistance to developing countries and emerging economies
- Non-recourse Financing: Non-recourse financing is where lenders have no claims on the assets and cash flows of your project.
- Project Financing: Project financing is a financing method for development projects, and includes finding lenders and collaborators.
- Renewable Energy: Renewable energy is generated from natural resources, including solar, wind, hydro, and more.
- Risk Management: Risk management identifies, assesses, and prioritises risk, while allocating responsibilities for managing specific risks.
- Senior Debt: Senior debt is considered to be highest in priority for payment, in terms of paying back debt.
- Social Bonds: Social bonds raise funds for projects that support social needs, particularly in developing countries and emerging economies.
- Structured Finance: Structured finance combines various financial assets to create sustainable financial operations for your project.
- Sustainability: Sustainability is linked to your project’s ability to meet the needs of the current market and population, while ensuring that future generations will be able to, too.
- Transaction Advisory: Transaction advisory is a professional service for people looking to buy or sell assets or businesses, or invest in projects.
- Working Capital: Working capital is your project’s current cash on hand to manage its day-to-day operations.