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27 March 2023

How to build – and defend – a franchise in US energy finance

Credit Suisse/UBS and FCB/SVB: Two distressed banking mergers and what they mean for the US power market.

24 March 2023
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Monsoon Wind puts Laos on developers' radar

The landmark and heavily DFI-backed Monsoon Wind transaction in Laos provides a foundation for further international bank and sponsor involvement in this fledgling...

16 March 2023
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Power, Renewables

Proximo Weekly: SVB and US renewables lenders’ maturity struggles

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank highlights some of the shortcomings of the US renewables project finance market. What does the Proximo Intelligence data say about...

16 March 2023
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Power

Europe’s painful progress on transmission upgrades

The sub-par condition of Europe’s electricity grid presents some interesting opportunities to finance upgrades. But mostly it presents a huge headache for transmission...

14 March 2023
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Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Proximo Middle East & Africa Awards 2022: A taste of the future

The deals and players that moved the market and point to state-owned enterprises learning the value of flexibility and creativity.

09 March 2023
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: The changing face of Latin American merchant renewables

Can sponsors’ and lenders’ tolerance of Latin American renewables spot price and volume risk survive contact with market realities?

03 March 2023
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Masdar and ACWA’s Stans stampede

The Stans are beginning to look like a renewables double-act for Masdar and ACWA Power, with a host of utility-scale project agreements signed across the region over the...

02 March 2023

Proximo Latin America Awards 2022: Flexible and responsible financing

The stand-out deals in the region gave borrowers room to grow, highlighted their social and environmental responsibility, and sold down strongly in difficult markets.

01 March 2023
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Social infrastructure

Proximocast: 20 minutes with Steve Cook, Sequoia Investment Management Company

Proximo interviews Steve Cook, a Director and the Head of Portfolio Management at Sequoia Investment Management Company, about infrastructure debt funds, diversification...

24 February 2023
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Can Taiwan get its offshore mojo back?

Taiwan, Asia’s leading offshore wind market, may have lost some of the polish on its project credentials recently, but its far from tarnished permanently.

16 February 2023
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Social infrastructure

Proximo Weekly: Will Barcelona FC’s stadium bond hit the back of the net?

Barcelona FC is tapping the US private placement market for all of the debt required for its €1.5bn stadium project. Could the scale of the issue set a new precedent for...

13 February 2023
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Renewables

Finerge: Portfolio financing with yogic flexibility

Project financings for merchant renewables assets remain highly complex for most lenders, principally because it is difficult to reconcile unpredictable revenues with a...

10 February 2023

Proximo Weekly: Adani and the weaknesses of Indian infrastructure finance

Listed equity and infrastructure assets often make strange bedfellows. The latest demonstration comes from the clutch of Indian infrastructure corporates headed by Gautam...

03 February 2023
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Power, Renewables, Waste and water

ACWA Power: A $230 billion ambition

ACWA Power has signed some significant financings in 2022 and may start 2023 on a high if its NEOM deal closes in the coming weeks. But its ambitions far outstrip past...

03 February 2023
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Power, Renewables

Proximo Weekly: A slow and difficult transition for PREPA

Puerto Rico has awarded the second phase of its power sector restructuring to Genera. So is the commonwealth now on a quick path to decarbonisation?

30 January 2023
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Power, Renewables, Social infrastructure, Waste and water

Proximocast: 20 minutes with David Johnston, Norton Rose Fulbright

Proximo interviews David Johnston, a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, about the Saudi Arabian project finance market. Topics discussed include key sectors that are...

27 January 2023
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Power

Proximo Weekly: Debt and power cuts in Bangladesh

Despite all the market uncertainties over the ongoing affordability of gas feedstock for Bangladesh's power sector, international commercial lenders appear to have...

27 January 2023
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Transport

Major Bridges gets a major PAB

Rising interest rates and broader economic uncertainty have tightened liquidity for private activity bonds (PABs) in recent months, forcing some financings to be delayed....

20 January 2023

Proximo Weekly: Choppy tides

Large-scale UK tidal is still a long way from providing a persuasive cost of power argument, and even further from bankability. But small-scale tidal stream is at least...

17 January 2023
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Power

Chile’s belated transmission focus

Enel’s recent $1.4 billion sale of its Chilean transmission assets is symptomatic of the country’s lopsided National Electric System (NES). With vertical integration...