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13 May 2021

Assessing bank readiness for the Libor transition

WATCH ON DEMAND: Original broadcast date - 20 May 2021. The end of Libor has been in preparation since 2017, in the wake of well-publicised scandals over how it was set....

12 May 2021

Making the right connections

You can count the number of true project financings for European and UK interconnectors on one hand. But following changes to regulation, and more expected to follow in...

30 April 2021
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Metals and Mining

Mining: A different shade of green

The mining sector is becoming a new frontier for green finance, as lenders take a greater interest in ESG issues. While green finance in mining has the potential to...

13 April 2021

Defining and scaling best practice in blended finance

Webinar: 22 April 2021, 3pm UK/10am NY. What role can - and should - blended finance have in financings for big-ticket sustainable and impact infrastructure.

25 March 2021
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Power, Renewables, Social infrastructure, Transport, Waste and water

What cost Brexit?

Brexit has been largely overshadowed by pandemic economic angst in the UK infrastructure sector. The additional bureaucracy will mean additional cost, but quantifying how...

19 March 2021
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Telecoms and Communications

UK FTTH: Rocks and roll-out

As the UK’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) coverage expands, the government and regulators remain wholly intent on allowing a competitive, market-driven approach to dominate....

10 February 2021
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Renewables

Bokpoort CSP: Benefits all round

The refinancing of Bokpoort CSP has set a number of precedents and benchmarks for South African IPPs. Will this be the deal that catalyses change and unshackles the South...

05 February 2021
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Offshore wind on steroids

The biggest offshore wind project financed to date, Dogger Bank A and B reset the financing volume benchmark for the offshore wind sector. With Dogger Bank C expected...

15 January 2021
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Polish offshore wind gets its Act together

Poland’s hotly anticipated Offshore Wind Act was passed by parliament this week. Given the combination of ambitious offshore wind installation targets; a contracts for...

06 January 2021
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Power, Renewables

Hydrogen: A matter of scale

Green hydrogen projects are on the increase – but they are also in the earliest stages of development and consequently banks are still treating the sector with caution....

02 December 2020

Libor going - but still many questions to answer

Despite the IBA looking at extending the date for the total demise of US$-Libor to 30 June 2023, Libor is finally on course for retirement, with a coterie of risk-free...

02 November 2020
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Renewables

Ocean's six?

With syndication closed on Fecamp in September, the sequel to Saint Nazaire last year, will project financings for France's remaining four feed-in tariff-based offshore...

06 October 2020

Chasing DFI infrastructure cash

Given the vast Covid-19 relief packages they are putting together, are DFIs really in a position to play a bigger role than usual in planned infrastructure stimulus...

02 October 2020
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Renewables

Huemul: A tale of two deals

Unlike its earlier sister deal which was fully commercially banked, the Huemul renewable financing in Chile has significant DFI backing. Was that backing a necessity in...

22 September 2020
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Transport

A49: A question of roads support

The recent A49 road PPP concession financing is the third of Germany's new generation availability-based road schemes to close. All three have been heavily backed by the...

25 August 2020
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Oil & gas

Mozambique LNG: Taking LNG liquidity to a new level

The Mozambique LNG project financing has broken multiple records for scale, and at a surprising tenor given the volume of debt involved. But there is more to the deal...

10 August 2020
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Social infrastructure

Do US universities need further education in P3?

The budgetary pressures that have pushed US public universities into using P3 concessions have not abated. Private sector capital is still plentiful. But is well-priced...

22 July 2020

New regs for a new economic environment?

Infrastructure plans are popping up everywhere as key elements of economic stimulus. But with government budgets battered by Covid-19 fallout and borrowing at historic...

11 May 2020
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Oil & gas

Oil and gas: How bad can it get?

Although the price decks used by banks for reserves based lending guard against drops in the oil price, they cannot possibly account for the freefall of recent weeks. So...

25 March 2020
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Renewables

Akita: A first of many on the Japanese offshore wind horizon?

A pathfinder deal for Japanese offshore wind, the recent Akita project financing did not benefit from Japanese regulation to cut red tape for offshore wind and managed to...