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One year in… one quarter up
Social & Defence EuropeHaving penned the Editor’s Letter for the next issue of the IJGlobal Magazine (out next week, online only), it left this aging infra hack pondering how long it had been since the last Friday missive… never mind how long we’ve been in lockdown and the UK out of Europe
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BBVA – extending sustainable finance beyond just dark green
Oil & Gas EuropeBBVA, a pioneer of sustainable finance, has bolstered its track record with the launch of sustainability advisory services this year. The banking sector will be a crucial enabler for facilitating sustainability-linked goals, BBVA’s heads of ESG and structured & project finance advisory tell IJGlobal.
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IJInvestor Awards 2020 – Outstanding Individual Steven Sonnenstein, Digital Colony
Telecoms North AmericaVoted Outstanding Individual in the IJInvestor Awards 2020, IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville speaks to Steven Sonnenstein about his career and digital infrastructure…
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IJInvestor Awards 2020 – Rising Star Jemima Atkins, AllianzGI
Power EuropeAllianzGI assistant vice-president Jemima Atkins is a Rising Star according to the IJInvestor Awards judging committee. IJGlobal reporter Sophie Mellor finds out just how fast she ascends…
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IJGlobal Magazine – Autumn 2020 issue
Oil & Gas Asia PacificIJGlobal is delighted today to publish the autumn edition of the IJGlobal Magazine – including the Power & Renewables Report – once again in digital format, due to the coronavirus pandemic
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IJInvestor Awards – open for entries
Renewables Asia PacificIJInvestor – the IJGlobal title tracking fund deployment and infrastructure/energy M&A activity – has now gone live with the portal for its 2020 awards celebrating achievements and individuals across a global playing field
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Who’d start a new job in lockdown?
Renewables EuropeIt’s a curious old world, ain’t it? Have you noticed the number of people moving jobs of late? It’s a trend that has a lot of folk around the industry scratching their heads in bemusement. Why on earth would you take a leap of faith in a market like the one we’re not enjoying?
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Home workers of the revolution
Renewables EuropeComrades, we gather here today to pay our respects to a way of life that passed earlier this year having lived to a ripe old age… and evolved into the equivalent of a cantankerous old git who’s long overdue a planting
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Falling off a cliff – infra style
Oil & Gas EuropeAs you look out there – virtually, of course, as you shouldn’t be going further than the end of your road unless it’s to load up with a couple of hundred-weight of bog roll – it’s a curiously vibrant market… for now. But dark clouds are massing...
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Nobody does air-quotes any more
Renewables EuropeThere’s been a very quiet revolution over the last month that hardly anyone has noticed… because we’re all working from home. This seismic shift has been in the attitude to WFH, if you’ll excuse what appears to be teenage text-speak
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Friday 13th – nightmares abound
Renewables EuropeWhen Friday The Thirteenth rolls around and the mind turns to the darker aspects of work in search of an editorial, it usually takes longer for a theme to emerge from the maelstrom of global infra/energy news
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Valentine’s Bonus – bankers are blue
Renewables EuropeWord from the banking community has it that if you’re holding out for a heart-warming letter from your boss in the coming weeks – one that leaves you in little doubt how much you’re loved – well… you’re in for a nasty surprise
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IJInvestor Awards 2019 Rising Star – Mounir Corm
Oil & Gas EuropeTalking to Mounir Corm, one immediately realises that you are dealing with someone whose interests and skills reach far beyond the financial universe
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IJInvestor's Outstanding Individual: Deborah Zurkow
EuropeThe inaugural winner of the IJInvestor Awards’ Outstanding Individual accolade is Deborah Zurkow, a woman widely credited as one of the driving forces behind the development of infrastructure as a distinct asset class in the eyes of institutional investors
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Dan McCarthy – splitting the audience
Renewables North AmericaOne of the most controversial figures in the infra/energy community, Dan McCarthy has risen to become one of the world's leading head hunters in this sector and has more war stories than you can shake a stick at. Here we take a closer look at the man behind the myth...
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Simon Currie – energising the transition
Renewables Asia PacificA globe-trotting career spanning three decades has not diminished Simon Currie's enthusiasm for getting deals done
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Andy Carty – a retiring man
Social & Defence EuropeThree tours of duty at three seats of power, Andy Carty knows how to walk the corridors and come out the other end with his sanity largely intact. Here we celebrate a fascinating public-side career that draws to an end in a couple of weeks' time, focusing on roles played by a man much loved across the European infrastructure community...
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Laurie Mahon – infrastructurally fabulous
Transport North AmericaA career like few others... in fact - no others. New York-based CIBC boss Laurie Mahon stands out as one of the most intriguing figures in the global infrastructure community having done it all, and done it in style. Here IJGlobal takes a look at the person, her career and what makes her tick...
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Graham Vinter… the man who wrote 'the book'
EuropeIJGlobal speaks to legendary lawyer Graham Vinter about infrastructure after PFI, the promise of Africa, and being lured back from retirement