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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
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    What is the $100bn Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank funding? Premium content

    A conversation with Jin Liqun, head of the fast-growing lender

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  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
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    Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will provide guarantees and support for developing nations’ ‘panda bonds’

    Jin Liqun speaks during an interview at the bank's headquarters in Beijing, with the AIIB logo in the background
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
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    China’s answer to western multilateral lenders backs deeper ties with peer institutions to ease capital constraints

    Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank president Jin Liqun
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    With the US and China at loggerheads, a range of ‘middle powers’ see an opening to pursue their interests

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  • Friday, 21 July, 2023
    China-backed AIIB secures World Bank deal

    Highest-profile agreement since Beijing-based group accused of being infiltrated by Chinese Communist party

    A man walks by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank  headquarters in Beijing
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
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    Top official resigns and levels accusations that institution is controlled by Communist party members

    A security guard stands in front of a sign for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Beijing
  • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
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    Senior development bank official signals support for existing hierarchy as debt restructuring talks continue

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
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    Head of Beijing’s alternative to World Bank says it will maintain suspension of operations in Russia

    Jin Liqun, president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
  • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
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    Development bank’s move threatens to strain relations between Beijing and Moscow

    The logo for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
  • Friday, 29 October, 2021
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    Jin Liqun, president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, pledged that his organisation would align itself with the Paris goals by 2023
  • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
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    Development bank says it does not base decisions on ‘form of government’ but on broader checklist

  • Tuesday, 11 May, 2021
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    AIIB touts ESG bond framework to simplify verification process

    Campaign groups criticise Beijing-based development bank for oversight of its investments

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Beijing-based development bank AIIB to target healthcare in Asia

    New unit to consider loans for areas such as improving wet markets and sewage monitoring

  • Sunday, 9 August, 2020
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    Fall in commodity prices benefits advanced economies

    The slump in tourism worldwide is a heavy blow for Africa
  • Friday, 3 April, 2020
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    Asian development banks switch focus from infrastructure to health

    Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank president Jin Liqun: ‘The crisis has laid bare the vulnerability of so many countries’
  • Monday, 2 December, 2019
    Indonesia
    Indonesia eyes China-backed AIIB to fund new capital city

    Beijing-based development bank seen as more ‘flexible’ than other multilateral lenders

    Flooding in Jakarta...epa04018400 Residents ride on a horse-drawn carriage through floodwaters in Jakarta, Indonesia, 13 January 2014. Dozens of villages of 18 districts in Jakarta are flooded with water due to rain since last 11 January and caused more than 5,000 people to evacuate. According to the Extreme Weather Sub Division of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency, the highest precipitation is predicted to occur in the end of January until early February, 2014. EPA/ADI WEDA
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2019
    AIIB teams up with Temasek-backed firm on infrastructure

    Beijing-based bank and partner seek to mobilise funds for large emerging Asia projects

    Jin Liqun, president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The multilateral bank believes repackaging infrastructure loans will free up lenders to recycle capital for investment in new projects
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2019
    James Crabtree
    China needs to make BRI more transparent and predictable

    Global infrastructure project must move beyond mish-mash of opaque bilateral deals

    Workers on a platform install flowers on a decoration in a shape of a train for promoting the upcoming Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The Belt and Road Forum which will open by Chinese President Xi Jinping this weekend in the capital city has draw leaders from around the globe. Xi, who has made the initiative a signature policy, agreed last month to seek fairer international trade rules and address the world's economic and security challenges, in what appeared to many as a rebuke to President Donald Trump's protectionist policies. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
  • Friday, 15 March, 2019
    Belt and Road Initiative
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    Rome in advanced talks to endorse Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative despite EU warning

    China’s president Xi Jinping and Italy’s deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio
  • Tuesday, 29 January, 2019
    Chinese business & finance
    China ‘rebalances’ overseas lending on debt burden concerns 

    AIIB president refutes claims country lent ‘recklessly’ to trap other countries 

    Jin Liqun, president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), attends the Hong Kong Asian Financial Forum (AFF) in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. The AFF runs through to Jan. 15. Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 9 January, 2019
    AIIB creates $500m fund to invest in infrastructure company bonds
  • Monday, 7 May, 2018
    Infrastructure investment
    AIIB set to extend reach to Latin America and Africa

    China-led lender takes next step to becoming global institution to rival World Bank

    The logo of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is displayed at the bank's headquarters building in Beijing, China, on Thursday, Jan. 5 2017. One year after opening with 57 charter members, the China-led AIIB remains open to the U.S. joining, President Jin Liqun said. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
  • Sunday, 18 March, 2018
    Chinese politics & policy
    India benefits from AIIB loans despite China tensions

    Delhi overlooks security concerns to pick up $1bn in infrastructure funding

  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2018
    Global Economy
    Islamic Development Bank to join forces with China-led AIIB

    Partnership aims to address infrastructure funding gap in Africa

    Bandar Bin Mohammed Al-Hajjar, chairman of the Islamic Development Bank, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. Islamic Development Bank (IDB) offers loans, equity financing, leasing, installment sales, trade and development projects financing, foreign direct investments, and infrastructure and properties investments services. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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