The private activity bond for a new light rail facility at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) finds a role for a bond insurer, and a role for PPP in developing public airports in the US.

Despite the fast global growth in the international green bond market, Latin America has only recently started to adopt the trend. The region’s infrastructure and investment needs present a major opportunity for green bond growth, but a lot of groundwork is still needed to gets investors comfortable.

From modernising the OECD consensus, creating an international exporters' forum to linking deal margin grids to borrowers sustainable development goals, there were a number of exciting takeaways from two days of forward thinking debate at TXF Global in Prague last week.

Having just reached financial close on a DFI-backed deal for the Paradise Park solar project in Jamaica, German asset manager MPC is carving itself a reputation as an intelligent co-investor in developing renewables projects in niche markets. The firm takes a second mover approach, but learning from others pathfinder deals does not mean it is any any less hands on says managing director Martin Vogt.

Now the dust has settled after the roaring success of TXF Global in Prague last week, the world’s leading export and agency finance conference, we highlight 15 of the most significant trends in the market over the past year.