Forever bursting bubbles: Calling a top in infrastructure valuations
The sheer volume of equity chasing infrastructure assets is pushing up valuations. But debt markets have a much more limited role in driving them up. Is the infra market...
The sheer volume of equity chasing infrastructure assets is pushing up valuations. But debt markets have a much more limited role in driving them up. Is the infra market...
$2.2 billion of ECA-covered non-recourse debt for a start-up cruise line – the Virgin Voyages deal is SACE at its export support best.
80bp saved on the margin and minimal costs compared to a new money refinancing, the restructuring of the Gemini offshore wind deal vindicates Northland Power’s original...
Regulatory progress in US LNG has continued to be strong. But doubts about the economics of exports – and the legal underpinnings of supply contracts remain.
TXF Data has released its inaugural Development Finance Report, covering the activities of all of the main multilateral development finance institutions. The results may...
Access Power’s crowd-sourced approach to development and InfraCo’s use of convertible debt may have set a new template for development and financing in Africa’s power...
Awarded to Aecon as a PPP concession with the Canadian Commercial Corporation as an intermediary, and financed via the US private placement market, the Bermuda Airport...
Supply chain finance pure-play providers' use of traditional fee models is causing revenue to be far smaller than increases in new business volumes would suggest. Should...
A new tax equity structure might increase US utilities’ ability to own US renewables assets – but only if regulators agree.
The Chinese government says it wants to attract meaningful amounts of private capital to new infrastructure development. Both PPP and market structures make that...
Israel’s Delek Group overcomes political interference to close its largest upstream bank financing to date.
Scotland’s unique PPP procurement method found favour with the private sector, but not with Eurostat. With an audit of the scheme looming, Scotland is searching for new...
Even with low oil prices, North Sea reserves are still changing hands. But sellers and buyers are having to get creative to get banks comfortable and make deals happen.
With a smaller-than-expected commercial bank tranche, the $1.05 billion partially ECA-backed debt package for the Fadhili CHP project demonstrates some of the collateral...
With costs down and technology improving, some argue ECA support for European offshore wind is actually distorting debt pricing in a market that could be commercially...
Associates of Sullivan & Worcester LLP warn about the underlying complexity of drawing up an insurance policy and the importance of securing lenders’ interests.
Japanese life companies and smaller banks could become a key element in Japan’s effort to maintain its presence in overseas markets.
Is the fund-backed debt package for Continental’s Buriticá gold mine project symptomatic of a growing alternative to traditional project lenders in the mid-level mining...
The end of the year really shouldn't have the significance it does. In the US, the calendar year coincides with the tax year, meaning that there are some powerful...
Some US merchant power plants have lurched from one crisis to another since they were built and financed a decade and a half ago. Despite the twin threat of low gas...
The OECD has ended a Common Line that increased the maximum available cover on export finance deals to 95%. Critics say that ECAs are abandoning developing market borrowers as indebtedness rises and concessional financing fades. Others say that better alternatives exist to improve affordability for borrowers.