Izumi Kobayashi to Head MIGA

Izumi Kobayashi, President and Representative Director of Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, will assume the role of MIGA’s Executive Vice President in December 2008. >> more

Business Leaders to Converge at Symposium on Political Risk Management 

The MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium, a forum on the needs and capabilities of the political risk management industry, is bringing together the most senior practitioners from the corporate, financial, insurer, broker, rating, and legal communities. >> more

PRI Helps Address Environment-related Challenges in China 

Rapid development in China is fueling economic and urban growth, but not without costs to the environment. MIGA guarantees are supporting a project that is helping the country address challenges related to waste management and climate change. >> more

Interest in Risk Mitigation Grows in the Middle East 

(This article originally appeared in the Project Finance Yearbook 2008/2009 published by Euromoney Yearbooks www.euromoney-yearbooks.com.) Investors in the Middle East are increasingly turning to projects unrelated to natural resource industries, requiring project finance. >> more

NEW CONTRACTS 

Financial Services 
Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG, Kazakhstan, $47.5M
Raiffeisen Bank SA, Moldova, $7.34M
Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG, Russian Federation, $70.8M
Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG, Ukraine, $47.5M
ADC Financial Services and Corporate Development, Rwanda, $5.85M
ADC IT & Payment Solutions, Rwanda, $9.5M

Tourism 
Société Malienne de Promotion Hôtelière, Benin, $1.4

Manufacturing 
Can-pack S.A., Ukraine, $21.04M

PROPOSED GUARANTEES
In accordance with the agency's new disclosure policy, which took effect Oct. 1, 2007, MIGA now discloses summaries of all proposed guarantees. >>more