Filter results

Search results

Show:
Results found: 453

11 May 2023

Proximo Weekly: Project finance volumes not lagging or sagging – yet

2022 was a good year for project finance volumes according to Proximo’s new Project & Infrastructure Finance Report. So will the same trends and deal flow continue for...

28 April 2023
in
Power, Renewables, Social infrastructure, Transport

Make the most of IIJA and IRA funding for infrastructure development

Two recent blockbuster bills promise to hugely increase the funding available to US infrastructure developers. Paying careful attention to structuring and to development...

28 April 2023

Proximo Weekly: Asia-Pacific 2022 Deal of the Year Awards

The deals that expanded the possibilities in Asia-Pacific infrastructure finance in 2022.

12 April 2023
in
Power, Renewables

Lift off for nationalisation in Mexican electricity?

AMLO has long threatened to deepen state control of Mexico’s power sector. A move on Iberdrola’s generating portfolio looks like making good on those threats, even if it...

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
in
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...

14 March 2023
in
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.

03 March 2023
in
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.

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...

27 January 2023
in
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
in
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...

13 January 2023
in
Power, Renewables

Co-location, co-location, co-location

UK grid constraints and delays to new grid connections are forcing sponsors to look at maximising existing grid connections via BESS and renewables project co-location....

13 January 2023
in
Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Making the most of the little grey cells

With access to significant DFI backing and offtakers as equity investors, the contrast between the highly successful Northvolt EV battery gigafactory programme and the...

06 January 2023
in
Telecoms and Communications

Proximo Weekly: The developed-only digital infrastructure market

Proximo’s latest digital infrastructure report shows no sign over overbuild angst among lenders to developed markets. But there are still questions over the risk profile...

22 December 2022
in
Metals and Mining

Proximo Weekly: A critical time for critical minerals finance

The energy transition is forcing banks and ECAs to engage with - or often return to - mining finance as the hunt for battery mineral resources heats up. But sponsors not...

19 December 2022
in
Social infrastructure, Transport, Waste and water

GCC social infra PPP steps up

The use of the PPP model in GCC countries has historically been confined largely to the power, water, and wastewater sectors. Increasingly, however, governments in the...

02 December 2022
in
Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Are you PTC or ITC?

The Inflation Reduction Act has given US solar developers a choice of two types of tax credit – ITC and PTC. So how to get the best from the system? Match the right tax...

23 November 2022
in
Oil & gas

PDP securitisation: Oil, gas and paper

PDP securitisation is unlikely to ever hit the oil and gas financing mainstream – but appetite from US oil and gas independents is growing and with good reason.