Coextensive with an influx of new rolling stock lessors into the UK rail market, institutional debt providers are lending for 20-plus years to fund UK rolling stock procurements. But have they got the risk-reward equation right given the deals are backed by leases to seven or eight-year operating franchises, the demise of Section 54 re-leasing guarantees for lessors and the growing problem of mid-life rolling stock displacement?
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Asia was late to the digital infrastructure party, but data centres are driving strong growth in the region. The big financial sponsors are already starting to take notice.
The last 18 months have looked more like a process of consolidation than rapid advance in the Asia-Pacific region. But the best deals of 2023 provide the foundations for a...
Asia was late to the digital infrastructure party, but data centres are driving strong growth in the region. The big financial sponsors are already starting to take notice.
The last 18 months have looked more like a process of consolidation than rapid advance in the Asia-Pacific region. But the best deals of 2023 provide the foundations for a serious take-off in activity.