Much that is useful in blended finance is not new, and much that is new in blended finance is not useful – but the concept has captured the imagination of DFIs looking to access a large pool of below-market capital from philanthropists and impact investors that are willing to partner up to achieve their ESG goals.
With the European fibre market entering the project financing mainstream, how big can the wider digital infrastructure market get, and what risk mitigants are still needed to give investors and lenders more comfort with non-fibre niches?
What do JBIC, SMBC, MUFG, Mizuho, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, OCBC and DBS all have in common?
The $15.3 billion RAPID project in Malaysia is nearing completion and financial close on $9.7 billion of partially ECA-backed facilities, with margins at record lows, looks likely by September. But does lender appetite for this deal...
Australia’s energy-from-waste (EfW) sector is still in its project finance adolescence. But a lack of developers and a standard public sector waste supply agreement are proving...
Against all the odds, over the past six years Colombian infrastructure development bank FDN has catalysed a mix of infrastructure funding sources that had never existed in Colombia...
With the heads of eight major project finance banks in attendance at Proximo's European Infrastructure and Renewables Finance Exchange in Lisbon in May, we took the opportunity for...
The $1.5 billion Al Dur 2 independent water and power project (IWPP) financing achieved a record length tenor on an uncovered local bank tranche, an indirect benefit of ECA...
With the heads of project finance from eight major banks in the same place at the same time – Proximo's European Infrastructure and Renewables Finance Exchange in Lisbon in May –...
UK offshore wind has been a rare domestic project financing success story. But it has attracted some strange press recently, largely fuelled by an academic report that is based on...
The €1.26 billion 420MW Nachtigal hydro scheme set the financing template for hydro in Cameroon in late 2018. Now a project more than four times the size of Nachtigal is underway,...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States is to vote on a $5 billion direct loan for the development and construction of an integrated liquefied natural gas project on...
John Laing Group is reconsidering solar and wind investments after a poor performance by its assets in Europe and Australia in the first half of the year. In...
A consortium led by Espina and Copasa have signed a $1.16 DFI-backed financing to fund the Proyecto Corredor Vial Circuito (Road Corridor Circuit) 3 highway PPP project...
WestWind Energy Australia has announced GE Renewable Energy as co-developer and turbine supplier for its 800-1000MW Golden Plains wind farm near Rokewood, in...
Infratil has opened a bond offer for a series of unsecured unsubordinated Infrastructure Bonds for NZ$200 million ($127 million) with a option to accept up to NZ$100...
What shifts in risk transfer are needed to help push the the Canadian PPP market forward, and which ones are likely. Proximo hosts Fitch Ratings' Mario Angastiniotis and Priya...
Political pressure is pushing export credit agencies in new, sometimes conflicting, directions. But they remain useful and well-regarded project finance players. Proximo hosts...
Interest rate hedging arrangements are more vulnerable to Libor's replacement than rises in base rates. Proximo talks hedge mechanics with Cogswell Consulting's Ian Cogswell,...
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