Proximo Weekly: Top takeaways from Project & Infrastructure report 2021
Proximo Intelligence's latest Project & Infrastructure report presents the latest Global, regional and sector data, as well as league tables and proprietary research into...
Proximo Intelligence's latest Project & Infrastructure report presents the latest Global, regional and sector data, as well as league tables and proprietary research into...
Commercial banks, DFIs and ECAs are still doing the heavy lifting of financing transport and transition assets. A look at 2021's Proximo Award winners in EMEA.
As ILX Fund I hits its $1.05 billion target in commitments, co-financing loans with MDBs and DFIs in sectors like renewables, energy transition, sustainable industry and...
How is the drafting of Chile’s new constitution affecting mining investor and lender sentiment? It’s not a disaster, but the lack of a dedicated mining statute will make...
The global project finance market looks set to replace one forward-looking dollar benchmark interest rate with another. Is Term SOFR effectively USD Libor with a new lick...
Some completion risk lingers and cost overruns are high, but the Purple Line refinancing has achieved an investment-grade rating and will finally allow construction on...
Data from the US Energy Information Administration shows that in 2021 natural gas accounted for the largest portion of electricity generation in the US at 38% with coal...
Fortescue Metals Group has closed on $1.5 billion in high-yield bonds, with part of the proceeds earmarked for solar and hydrogen projects. It looks like Fortescue's next...
Is increasing petrochemicals price volatility going to force re-evaluation of past petchems project finance models? It already is.
Corporate borrowers and lenders have responded enthusiastically to the concept of sustainability-linked lending. Jennifer Charles and Ryan Ayrton, London-based partners...
Federal dollars look set to stimulate a boom in US municipal FTTH projects. But the market still has a long way to evolve in terms of public-private financing templates.
Starwood’s financing for the retirement of its Logan and Chambers plants marks an end to coal-fired power in New Jersey. It points to a workable compromise between...
Commercial banks are increasingly looking at blended finance to push marginally bankable deals over the fence — but hurdles of transparency, a limited pipeline of deals...
Gordon Stewart and Tom Jamieson, partners in the London office of Bracewell, discuss the ever adapting financing structures funding the energy transition and some of the...
A combination of financial market conditions, changing government priorities, and a new breed of financial sponsors are pushing Latin America’s vibrant project finance...
Brazil's privatisation programme has not delivered some of the headline successes promised – notably the sale of Eletrobras. But improvements have been made to the...
With banks lining up to finance Bid Window 5 projects, part of South Africa’s REIPPP programme, renewables has become the country’s leading project finance sector in an...
The US is well placed to meet the European need to wean itself off Russian gas. But Europe needs to decide whether 2022 is the year it commits to long-term contracts with...
There are still some significant hurdles to bankability to overcome – but with some of Poland's major offshore wind pathfinder deals expected to reach financial close in...
There is nothing new about using bonds to finance Latin American projects. But 2021 was the first year of bond dominance over bank debt across the major project sectors...
Acciona and Aberdeen have closed on what is likely the largest PPP to date in New Zealand transport to date. The deal marks a potential revival in the use of PPP in New Zealand, which has a chequered history.