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Proximo Weekly: Switching tracks
As India takes its first steps to rail privatisation, the UKs rail private sector experiment is backtracking to nationalisation. Can either get the public-private sector balance right?
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Finding certainty in an uncertain climate (part one)
The new normal has accelerated many pre-Covid investment trends, slowed others and left many asset managers with an imbalance of risk in portfolios that were built on old risk perceptions. In the first session of a two-part roundtable sponsored by AXA XL, we explore the changing dynamics in the infrastructure investment market and a potentially bigger role for credit risk insurers in portfolio risk mitigation.
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Proximo Weekly: MAGA – Make America Green Again
He pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement, has been vocal in his climate change denial, removed many federal supports for renewables and even linked wind turbines with cancer – but the renewables economic and technological tide is against Trump, re-elected or not.
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DFIs urged to scale up blended finance
In order to crowd-in more private sector investment, DFIs need to increase their levels of blended finance in low-income countries and provide a wider array of de-risking instruments, said panellists at the recent Global Infrastructure Forum hosted by the EBRD.
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Proximo Weekly: Watch the Polish offshore wind horizon
Of the more established project finance sectors discussed at Proximo Europe 2020: Infrastructure & Renewables Finance last week, a new geographic market – Polish offshore wind – may soon start to deliver on its promise of a solid long term deal pipeline.
