Investment manager Downing LLP has appointed Tom Williams as a partner for its Energy & Infrastructure investment team. He has worked in both private debt and private...

A near-death experience for Kentucky's debut US broadband PPP due to rising costs highlights the pitfalls to sponsors of states’ budgeting processes. But PPPs for US...

Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in April, Afreximbank and ECIC are set to launch the South Africa-Africa Trade and Investment Promotion...

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...

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...

The holding company refinancing for Freeport LNG train 3 shows that banks have not soured on US LNG. But troubled offtakers may force sponsors down less palatable...

An expensive and unsuccessful gamble on Singapore’s deregulated power market has forced water project developer Hyflux into a painful restructuring. It may also have put...

The sovereign wealth fund Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has announced it will hold a 5% share in the joint venture company LLC Gazpromneft-Vostok with...

Carbon Holdings will launch the debt financing to banks for its $10.8 billion Tahrir Petrochemicals Corp (TPC) project in Egypt at a meeting in London tomorrow (24 May...

 The supply chain industry, which comprises two-thirds of the global economy, and the customs and border authorities that govern cross-border commerce, are actively...

Is the local currency bank-bond financing for CELSE’s LNG-to-power project an easily repeatable template that will make ECA bond wraps take off? Almost.

The International Finance Corporation has appointed Wiebke Schloemer as its new Director for the Europe and Central Asia region. The former IFC regional infrastructure...

China’s Shandong Qingyuan closed three offshore pre-delivery finance facilities against future crude oil deliveries, totalling nearly $1 billion, to take home TXF’s Best...

The bond refinancing of Actis’ acquisition of InterGen Mexico was pitched as a safe play in Mexico’s evolving energy sector. But reform, politics, and the assets’ age,...

The DFI-backed debt for the 7MW PRICO rooftop solar project – only the second power project financing to close in Palestine – is still going to be disbursed despite fresh...

The five-year development finance institution (DFI) funding package for a new oil-fired plant in Guinea might go some way to alleviating the country’s chronic power...

The Ripple versus SWIFT PR campaign appears to have backfired. But whatever the outcome of this rather artificial headline generator, one thing looks certain –...

Infrastructure business WHP Telecoms, based in Warrington, has been bought out by its management with the backing of Equistone Partners, through its...

In an otherwise modest series of proposals for US infrastructure are some measures that might increase the number of brownfield assets coming to market. But states –...

The UK Guarantee Scheme was not designed for financing mining projects. But Sirius Minerals, which has already overcome significant hurdles to its North Yorkshire...