• Climate chaos

    Sarah Tame & Nikola Yankulov

    What is the future for renewables investment after the US pulls out of the Paris Climate Accord?

  • Interview: MUFG’s Colin Chen

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Asia Pacific

    The world’s leading project finance bank has also dominated the Asia Pacific project finance league tables for several years. Colin Chen, who runs MUFG’s structured finance in Asia Oceania excluding Japan, explains the Japanese bank’s strategy going forward

  • The revival of bond insurance

    Beatrice Mavroleon Social & Defence Europe

    With a number of deals concluded over recent months featuring wrapped bonds, and more expected in the future, bond insurance seems to be enjoying a resurgence, a decade after the industry was all but completely destroyed by the financial crisis

  • Data analysis: The looming US gas giant

    Chase Collum Power North America

    Latching onto the economics provided by cheap natural gas in the US, gas-fired power plants are coming to market in droves

  • Marubeni and Jinko’s Sweihan solar, United Arab Emirates

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    The world’s largest solar project with 1,177MW of capacity reached financial close in May 2017. Sweihan offers the world’s lowest headline tariff for solar electricity and may mean Abu Dhabi can delay its next solar procurement

  • UK pension funds dip into water utilities

    Alexandra Dockreay Water Europe

    While infrastructure funds are the most prevalent shareholders of 25 regulated water utilities in England and Wales, the recent sale of Affinity Water is due to feature UK local authority pension funds co-investing alongside fund HICL

  • Interview: PLN’s Ahsin Sidqi

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Renewables Asia Pacific

    Sponsors, bankers and lawyers have been pondering the implications of Indonesia’s new regulations on procuring power plants. PLN’s head of IPP procurement Ahsin Sidqi explains the new policy to IJGlobal

  • Puerto Rico's renewed PPP goals

    Sakshi Sharma Transport North America

    Debt-ridden Caribbean island and US territory, Puerto Rico, has announced plans to resurrect its PPP programme with an ambitious pipeline of fresh projects across multiple sectors

  • Project procurement and delivery

    Sarah Tame Asia Pacific

    The UK, Canada and Australia are three of the most established private finance markets for infrastructure in the world. Lauded for easily accessible and transparent procurement and delivery mechanisms they are often a blueprint for emerging PPP markets

  • Borkum West Phase 2 offshore wind, Germany

    Olivia Gagan Renewables Europe

    The 203MW, Borkum West Phase 2 €800 million ($870.4 million) offshore wind project off the coast of Germany is one of the last renewables projects to enjoy fixed feed-in tariff subsidy support from the German government

  • Chile’s conservative pipeline

    Chase Collum Renewables Latin America

    While other Latin American nations promise massive infrastructure programmes, Chile is taking a more conservative stance as it prepares for a change in government

  • Acwa Power’s project-backed bond, Saudi Arabia

    Jordan Bintcliffe Power MENA

    Saudi Arabian developer Acwa Power’s recently closed project-backed bond issuance unlocks some $814 million in capital for the firm in what is its first investment-grade offering secured against operational assets

  • Pakistan’s power potential

    Baron Laudermilk & Sarah Tame Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    Pakistan, a country where over 140 million people don’t have access to power, is investing heavily in its energy sector. And Asian investors are taking advantage

  • Japan's pension funds interest in infrastructure

    Viola Caon Asia Pacific

    On 11 April 2017, The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) of Japan issued a call for asset managers of alternative assets, including infrastructure, private equity and real estate, to invest via fund of funds products that are set up as separate managed accounts for GPIF

  • California's infrastructure ambition

    Sakshi Sharma Transport North America

    The Californian State Legislature passed a historic bill in April to raise California gas taxes by $0.12 in an attempt to raise as much as $52 billion towards repairing the state's infrastructure over the next decade

  • PPP, transport and the need for diversity

    Beatrice Mavroleon Transport Europe

    The UK government has promised a new pipeline of PF2 projects by the spring. Naturally these things are often delayed. While the infrastructure market waits the hope is that the list of projects will include more than just transport

  • Australia’s gas supply shortage

    Baron Laudermilk Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    Several regions of Australia are suffering blackouts due to a domestic gas supply shortage. Given the numerous and very large LNG projects being developed in the country, the shortage seems extraordinary

  • Leviathan gas field, Israel

    Oil & Gas MENA

    Delek Group and Texas-based partner Noble Energy’s financing of the Leviathan gas field offshore Israel represents the country’s largest ever infrastructure project. The field will ultimately transform Israel into a regional energy hub

  • Financing Argentina’s ambitious infra plans

    Sarah Tame Transport Latin America

    Argentina is seeking significant private sector investment to support its ambitious plans, and so must attract foreign capital



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