Proximo Weekly: What price infra?
There is a lot of fund money chasing operational infrastructure assets. But with many assets still hurting from pandemic fallout, is it the right time to sell?
There is a lot of fund money chasing operational infrastructure assets. But with many assets still hurting from pandemic fallout, is it the right time to sell?
European ESG-linked finance regulation is going to bite deeper and sharper in the very near future – and it will not just be looking at lenders and borrowers.
Even at the height of the pandemic Asia produced some market firsts last year.
Despite a uniquely challenging 2020, dominated by the rejigging or full refinancing of existing project deals, innovation did not stop.
Latin America comprises multiple and often very different domestic project finance markets where local knowledge is a prerequisite for best practice project delivery....
Energy transition was one of many themes debated at Proximo Europe 2021 this week. The investment decisions are huge, politics muddied and the outcome by no means...
Meridiam and Vinci have set the benchmark for future Czech roads PPP financings – and it’s a high one.
Post-Covid infrastructure stimulus plans are stacked high on civil service desks around the globe. But do both public and private sector need to change the way they look...
For the first time, PPP in the GCC looks set to take off in a meaningful way. But international project banks are surprisingly absent from the list of lenders to the...
Uzbekistan looks set to deliver some significant CCGT and renewables financings over the next 12 months, and a strong project pipeline for beyond the end of the year....
The pace of development of emerging markets mini-grid projects is picking up, and for good reason - the project fundamentals make sense. But the largely DFI-backed sector...
The list of planned hydrogen projects in the global pipeline is ballooning daily. But where’s the level of support from governments – regulatory and financial – that will...
Starwood’s project finance CLO debut has upped speculation again that the market could become more than a transaction every couple of years. In the US that might prove...
The UK budget had a few more details on the new UK Infrastructure Bank. Given its size, can it provide the level of support and stimulus needed to pull in the amount of...
Lira depreciation, high inflation, sovereign ratings downgrades and pandemic economic fallout make for a very difficult market – but deals in some Turkish project sectors...
Recent changes to risk perception, perceived debt and equity appetite for certain infrastructure asset sectors and the growing ESG movement look set to outlast the...
With the recent change of US administration, the offshore wind pipeline is expected to start delivering major projects more quickly. But would-be developers are not...
2020 may have been a year like no other for hurdles to getting deals done. But it has all been a demonstration of all that is best about the project finance market. Take...
The UK's National Infrastructure Strategy (NIS) is a welcome set of ambitions and funding promises from the government. But it's more a schematic than detailed road map –...
Debt and equity appetite for the European FTTH market continues to grow. But is the debt market providing enough flexibility on covenants? And with France, Germany and...
Tax equity investments in US renewables are so thoroughly derisked they are often less risky than construction loans. So why is Basel III proposing an increase in risk weighting to 400% and will it happen?