• Lebanon’s designs on PPP

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    Lebanon has unveiled plans for a $22 billion Infrastructure Investment Programme (IIP) to be implemented over the coming 12 years, with $6 billion of that designated as PPPs. The programme opens up opportunities for private investors to tap a market desperately in need of key infrastructure – but which has had little PPP success in the past

  • Power push in Bangladesh

    Iliyan Videnov Power Asia Pacific

    Bangladesh has the potential for significant economic growth but still suffers from huge unmet power demand. The country is trying to address this power deficit by investing in renewables and conventional power sources

  • Australia: Sydney congestion

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Transport Asia Pacific

    Infrastructure Australia's priority list for 2018 is focusing on resolving congestion in Sydney, the country’s largest city

  • Çanakkale Bridge, Turkey

    Beatrice Mavroleon Transport Europe

    Turkey’s north western regions have seen a flurry of transport projects of late, with bridges – specifically the third Bosporus bridge, which opened to traffic on 26 August 2016, and the recently financed Çanakkale Bridge – the crowning glory of the programme

  • Samurai loans – new master for Ronin lenders

    Angus Leslie Melville Water Asia Pacific

    A wind of change is sweeping the Australian financing market with MUFG closing syndication on its second refi of a major piece of availability-based infrastructure today, leveraging the fearsome might of Samurai lenders

  • Sparks of life in Brazilian transmission

    Nikola Yankulov & Sophia Radeva Power Latin America

    The Brazilian government sees investment in transmission assets as a key tool in boosting the country’s economy. After a number of years of limited interest in development auctions, improved returns for investors in 2016 revealed an increased appetite for transmission projects

  • Boston automated fare P3, US

    Jon Whiteaker Transport North America

    A new automated fare collection system for Boston, but Charlie is still stuck on the subway

  • Belt and Road: the next phase

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Asia Pacific

    China is looking to shift the funding strategy for its Belt and Road initiative away from government loans and towards more diversified sources of financing

  • Infra debt funds: small but growing

    Viola Caon Oil & Gas Europe

    Even though the IJInvestor database shows that only 20% of total funds in raising mode are geared towards debt rather than equity deals, investor appetite for the asset class seems to be slowly picking up in Europe – with managers either setting up debt strategies from scratch or launching next generation vehicles

  • China powering into Africa

    Sophia Radeva Power Sub-Saharan Africa

    Last year saw a surge in investment in Africa power assets by Chinese institutions, demonstrating how the continent continues to be of major economic and strategic importance to the Asian superpower

  • EXCLUSIVE The Colombia 4G slow down

    Juliana Ennes Transport Latin America

    Distrust in the government and corruption scandals have made most banks hit the brake

  • Spalding Energy Expansion Project, the UK

    Mako Matondo Power Europe

    InterGen’s Spalding Energy Expansion Project in Lincolnshire, the UK, reached financial close on 27 February – to a tune of £72 million in debt financing

  • Here come the Belgians…

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport Europe

    Belgium looks to be on the verge of launching a pipeline of projects – a development that may stay the hand of the European greenfield community which is currently tying a hangman’s noose, one eye firmly fixed on the sturdiest beam

  • Renewables tenders in Turkey

    Lyudmila Zlateva Renewables Europe

    It is not without its challenges, but the Turkish renewables market is providing ample opportunities for investment in greenfield projects

  • White-Line Fever – the European malady

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    In a perfect world all infrastructure and energy projects are delivered without hitch, operate as expected and run the course of the contract within the parameters outlined in tomes of legal documentation

  • Fund analysis: Basalt Infrastructure Partners II

    Nazia Begum Renewables Europe

    UK-based manager Basalt Infrastructure Partners on 8 February announced final close for its second infrastructure fund at $1.3 billion

  • The most important US infra project (that may never happen)

    Jon Whiteaker Transport North America

    A project that has to be built, a funding gap of billions of dollars, and a President reluctant to plug it

  • Saudi gets solar right with Sakaka

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    After a number of false starts, Saudi Arabia’s first utility scale solar project – the 300MW Sakaka PV plant – is nearing financial close. The deal is the first step in the kingdom’s ambitious renewable energy plans

  • Data centres – led by the wrinkled nose

    Angus Leslie Melville Telecoms Europe

    Data centres - they are increasingly flavour of the day among infrastructure funds with a good number of them shifting focus to target these assets. We are seeing increasing activity in this space and here we focus on an exciting area that is set to grow in coming years...



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