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01 August 2024
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Telecoms and Communications

Chips with that?: AI’s next digital infra asset class

The computing requirements of artificial intelligence are driving up the amount that cloud operators need to spend on microchips. The highly liquid private credit market...

23 January 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment, Renewables

H2 Green Steel Boden: Long on ambitions, low on emissions

H2GS was founded by Vargas in 2020 and launched in 2021. Three years later it has finalised funding for the world’s first green steel mega project. How? By being open to...

30 October 2023

Impact finance – the secret to scale is in the blend (part two)

Impact investment and blended finance – both key strategies in attracting private sector funding into energy transition, particularly in developing markets. So how to...

24 August 2023

Impact finance – the secret to scale is in the blend (part one)

Impact investment and blended finance – both key strategies in attracting private sector funding into energy transition, particularly in developing markets. So how to...

03 May 2023
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Power, Renewables

Wheeling out the volume

South Africa’s renewable energy wheeling sector is expanding at pace, with as much as 5GW of projects at various stages of development and the beginnings of a wheeling...

01 September 2022
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Oil & gas

Project ONE: Raising the European petchem project debt benchmark

ECAs and banks are yet to be mandated for Europe’s largest petrochemicals investment in the past 20 years – Ineos’ ethylene plant in Belgium. But despite ongoing...

07 July 2022
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Transport

JFK Terminal One: A second landing

It has taken to two attempts to get it done, but the JFK Terminal One financing is still a flagship deal for the US transport market. It includes an innovative package...

16 June 2021
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Power, Renewables

Living in the mainstream for battery storage

The last five years have seen a huge increase in the number of installations of battery storage systems – and an increase in financing volumes for the asset. Proximo asks...

02 November 2020
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Renewables

Ocean's six?

With syndication closed on Fecamp in September, the sequel to Saint Nazaire last year, will project financings for France's remaining four feed-in tariff-based offshore...

29 June 2020

Puzzled by credit risk insurance? (part two)

In the second instalment of a two-part roundtable sponsored by Texel, we explore what new strategies banks would like from CRI providers, what those providers are...

23 June 2020

Puzzled by credit risk insurance? (part one)

Appetite for credit risk insurance (CRI) for project financings looks set to rise in the wake of fallout from Covid-19. In the first session of a two-part roundtable...

09 April 2020
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Power, Renewables

Austin’s Power Bankers: Can they keep their mojo?

The good times are continuing in US power for now, with strong renewables activity compensating for slowing gas-fired volumes. Proximo asks the top lenders in the US...

02 January 2020
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Power, Renewables

Counting the cost: Mexico's potential New Year power bill shocker

Market participants warn that the Mexican government’s recent changes to CEL regulation in the electricity sector may backfire – and could lead to significantly higher...

08 January 2019
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Renewables

Greece's high stakes renewables reforms

With a new renewable energy support scheme in place and a stabilising regulatory environment, the Greek renewables sector has begun attracting international lender and...

11 October 2018
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Oil & gas

North Sea M&A: Balanced for mutual benefits

Innovative sale and security structures have attracted a new breed of private equity-backed buyers into North Sea oil assets being sold off by the majors. And as the M&A...

30 August 2018
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Oil & gas, Power

LNG-to-power: Turning up Bangladesh’s power supply

Bangladesh’s DFI-backed LNG-to-power project financings are the government's answer to depleting domestic gas reserves and fast-growing power needs. But, the integrated...

27 August 2018
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Oil & gas

Southern Gas Corridor: The funding tap that keeps on giving

Despite Moody’s rating downgrade for the $41.5 billion Southern Gas Corridor in 2017 amid ongoing concerns over Azerbaijan’s creditworthiness and politics, the scheme has...

25 July 2018
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Transport

UK rolling stock financing: Are institutional debt providers being realistic about the risks?

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...

07 June 2018

Argentinean PPP: Investors stay focused

Despite Argentina's recent FX troubles, investor appetite for its new $26 billion PPP programme remains strong – in part because investors are taking a long term view,...

16 October 2017

Top Trump ironies: Donald has a plan

Forget twitter and the crassness, Donald Trump has an infrastructure plan that the PPP industry actually likes. But is it workable, and would it pass congress?