• Six Nations: England vs Ireland

    In tribute to the final weekend of the Six Nations IJGlobal pips Ireland and England against one another for infrastructure investment

  • Interview: Singaporean Finance Minister, Indranee Rajah

    Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Finance and Law, Indranee Rajah, tells IJGlobal how Singapore will become a regional infrastructure and financing hub

  • The rise of the core-plus fund manager

    Recent final closes on core-plus and value-added funds prove there is institutional investor appetite outside of core infrastructure

  • Interview: Mayor Mancera of Mexico City

    Mexico City is going green. The metropolis, home to 21 million inhabitants, is taking decisive action against climate change through the launch of new sustainable infrastructure projects

  • “Standard Aberdeen” and UK infrastructure

    Standard Life this week announced a £3.8 billion takeover deal of rival asset management firm Aberdeen Asset Management. But what does it mean for the pair's infrastructure activities?

  • Power sharing: European interconnectors heat up

    Since the start of the year, news relating to schemes to share and sell electricity between European countries via power cables seems to have been coming thick and fast, after a sluggish 2016

  • Data Analysis: Car parking companies - future risks, or opportunities

    Roughly three years after buying French car parking business Indigo, long-term investors Ardian and Predica are already reviewing a full or partial sale. With another multi-billion sale of European car parking giant Q-Park further advanced, infrastructure and private equity investors bidding for these businesses will be considering game-changing shifts in the industry perhaps not so far away.

  • Fadhili Combined Heat and Power, Saudi Arabia

    French developer Engie reached financial close on the $1.2 billion Fadhili combined heat and power (CHP) project in Saudi Arabia on 26 January 2017. The project has a unique structure in place that sees Saudi Aramco and Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) both offtaking production under separate contracts

  • French broadband roll out speeds up

    Last year saw France’s first two large-scale high-speed network greenfield projects, the Alsace and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais PPPs, reach financial close

  • Will PPP solve Asia’s infra need?

    The need for infrastructure in developing Asia Pacific is now estimated to be between $1.5-$1.7 trillion a year to 2030

  • Interview: Siemens's Anthony Casciano

    The Asia-Pacific region’s economies are forecast by the International Monetary Fund to grow at an average 5.3% this year, and remains one of the brightest spots for infrastructure suppliers, including Siemens

  • Unbundling Trump’s infrastructure plans

    Infrastructure was a major talking point in the run up to the 2016 election, and President Trump's plan for the sector is said to be expected in the coming weeks

  • Interview: Netflow's Phil Dreaver

    In an interview with the managing director of Netflow, the new joint-venture between Plenary and Cintra, Phil Dreaver describes the competition in Australia's growing road infrastructure market, and how his firm plans on competing in the sector

  • HS2 and the UK's procurement dilemma

    Nationally significant infrastructure projects in the UK have often been subject to scrutiny if they do not provide business opportunities and jobs for UK companies

  • Fund analysis: AMP Capital global infrastructure platform

    On 12 January 2017, AMP Capital announced the final close at $2.4 billion of its global infrastructure platform, which includes the AMP Capital Global Infrastructure Fund (GIF) and the relaunched Strategic Trust of Europe (SITE)

  • Vietnam: last chance for coal?

    The race is on to arrange financing for at least some of the 12 coal-fired power plants stuck in financing limbo in Vietnam, and many in the market fear that unless they can make progress in 2017, the projects will have to be abandoned

  • Interview: Google's Francois Sterin

    IJGlobal met with Google's global infrastructure chief Francois Sterin to talk about how the company plans to meet its growing need for power

  • Data Analysis: Growth in US social and water deals

    Social and water infrastructure transaction volumes have been on a gradual rise in the US, according to IJGlobal's financial close data for the sectors between 2010 and 2016

  • DONG Energy and offshore wind in Taiwan

    Taiwan’s offshore wind energy industry in the last year has begun to see major investors and developments. This is occurring in the backdrop of the government releasing strong incentives and clear regulations for global investors and developers to follow