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Perspective
28 October 2019
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Renewables

Taiwan offshore wind: New angle – new uncertainties

With the sponsors of the Formosa 2 offshore wind project concluding the final details of an ECA-backed debt financing, confidence in the bankability of Taiwan's...

Perspective
25 September 2019
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Metals and Mining

New mining capital - meet old risks

Bank debt, ECAs, DFIs, streams, and high yield debt. Mine developers have many financing options, but need to take care to cover off key risks. Proximo speaks to Global...

Perspective
20 September 2019
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Telecoms and Communications

Data centres: Do the risks and rewards compute?

Data storage capacity looks set to grow exponentially in the coming years. But it’s still unclear whether the risks and rewards will equate to a booming new asset class...

News
19 September 2019

Deutsche creates new loan and portfolio management role

Kommunalkredit has hired Oliver Fincke as head of portfolio and loan management – a newly created role in line with the bank’s confirmed intention to expand...

Perspective
09 September 2019

Allego: A hybrid test of lender appetite for EV charging

Societe Generale and Kommunalkredit have devised an innovative hybrid structure in the Allego EV charging infrastructure deal, mixing both corporate and project finance...

Perspective
19 August 2019
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Social infrastructure, Transport

On the road again: The very active retirement of Clemente del Valle

Against all the odds, over the past six years Colombian infrastructure development bank FDN has catalysed a mix of infrastructure funding sources that had never existed...

Perspective
05 August 2019
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Renewables

Grand Eweng: Too much too soon?

The €1.26 billion 420MW Nachtigal hydro scheme set the financing template for hydro in Cameroon in late 2018. Now a project more than four times the size of Nachtigal is...

News
01 May 2019
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Power, Renewables

Steyn rejoins Bracewell

Clint Steyn has rejoined Bracewell in Dubai as a partner and regional head of projects. Steyn was a partner in Bracewell’s Dubai office from 2014 to 2017 and was...

News
11 April 2019
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Transport

Lima-Ica rail link RFP launched

The RFP for the 324 km Lima-Ica rail link PPP (Iniciativas Privadas Cofinanciadas) concession has been launched by Peru’s Ministry of Transport & Communications...

Perspective
03 April 2019
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Renewables

Nigerian solar: The path to bankability

There have been notable recent developments in the Nigerian regulatory and legal framework aimed at promoting investment in solar independent power projects (IPPs). But...

Perspective
08 March 2019
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Telecoms and Communications

Navigating the digital project corridor

With the European fibre market entering the project financing mainstream, how big can the wider digital infrastructure market get, and what risk mitigants are still...

Perspective
04 March 2019
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Power, Renewables

Battery storage: Moving beyond Hornsdale

Hybrid renewable and battery storage system projects have been proven bankable following the first non-recourse deal in 2018, and the deal pipeline is expected to grow....

Perspective
25 February 2019
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Telecoms and Communications

Funding fibre: Can the UK catch up with Europe?

CityFibre, the first major wholesale fibre financing in the UK with project and corporate-style elements, bodes well for UK fibre investors and lenders. But cost of debt...

Perspective
06 February 2019
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Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Social infrastructure

Aluminium Dunkerque: Setting the template

Liberty House’s recent Aluminium Dunkerque deal is both its first syndicated bank acquisition financing and a novel de-risked structure that includes a syndicated...

News
11 January 2019
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Telecoms and Communications

Bradley rejoins Macquarie to head up digital infra investing

Macquarie Capital has appointed Oliver Bradley as managing director of digital infrastructure investing. Bradley worked for Macquarie from 2005 to 2015 and returns to the...

Perspective
11 January 2019
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Oil & gas

Petroperu's ECA flag day

Petroperu's $1.3 billion CESCE-backed facility had to navigate four changes of government in two countries to finally reach financial close last month. But the deal still...

Perspective
03 January 2019

EV Charging Infrastructure: Balancing the funding equation

Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is potentially the next big core market for project lenders and investors. But like mobile telecoms and broadband before it,...

Perspective
06 December 2018
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Renewables

US offshore wind: On track to join the major markets

The 2019 expiration of the Investment Tax Credit is unlikely to put the dampers on a US offshore wind sector that looks set to take off.

Perspective
18 October 2018

Room2Run: Untapping multilateral capital to full effect

A ground-breaking $1 billion synthetic securitisation by the AfDB could serve as the template for unlocking trillions of dollars of investment for emerging markets...

News
05 October 2018

HSBC bolsters infrastructure, power and real estate teams

HSBC has hired seven new bankers to expand its power, infrastructure and real estate businesse. Giulio Hoffmann has been appointed as managing director for power,...