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The Caribbean – welcome to PPParadise
Social & Defence North AmericaMany people find it hard to look beyond sun-drenched beaches and cocktails when it comes to the Caribbean. But with 28 countries and a combined population of 42.5 million, there’s a strong argument for rebranding it “the land of sun, sea and PPP”… if it can follow the example of Jamaica
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Howard County Courthouse P3 – Maryland, US
Social & Defence North AmericaIt is almost unheard of in the US for a P3 project to go from procurement to financial close in just under a year. However, this is exactly what happened with the $150 million Howard County Circuit Courthouse P3 in Maryland, which reached financial close in October, setting a precedent for how infrastructure projects should be procured in North America
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Infra funds – cards on the table again
Social & Defence EuropeIn anticipation of publication of our quarterly funds and investors report, the temptation is too great to hold back our key findings, laying our cards on the table and smiling knowingly at rivals that our data wins the day again
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Shouting at credit committees
Social & Defence Sub-Saharan AfricaAfter a lumpy year to date and a deathly-quiet August, the global infrastructure community is bracing for a rush to Christmas with many fearing that the first quarter of 2019 will be fairly sedate – particularly in Europe
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Turkey – unclogging the fan
Social & Defence EuropeThe Turkish currency crisis is causing ripples around the international infrastructure finance community with all parties active in the nation reaching for project documentation to ensure they are not about to take a severe haircut
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EIB… something for the weekend?
Social & Defence EuropeBack in the PPP pipeline days, you could set timing on the project finance of any old piece of European infrastructure by the tired mantra of lenders intoning: “And… yes… you can count on the EIB taking half the debt”
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The Peruvian PPP push
Social & Defence Latin AmericaPeru is one of many countries around the world hoping to boost economic performance by closing its infrastructure gap
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PABs: favoured financing
Social & Defence North AmericaWith a sizable chunk of funding still available to developers, private activity bonds look set to be the gift that keeps on giving despite the growing availability of private placements
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Brexit – opening a can of worms
Social & Defence EuropeBrexit. Travel anywhere around Europe as a British person and it’s all they want to talk about. What’s going to happen? How do you think it will impact you? Did you vote for it? What’s the future for infrastructure finance?
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From higher education to social infra
Social & Defence North AmericaThe P3 market in the US is now no longer limited to just the transport sector. It is not even about individual states anymore either. Over the last few years, the focus has shifted to universities procuring student housing projects and setting in motion the potential for other types of social infrastructure projects
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Unstoppable rise of the mega fund
Social & Defence North AmericaAs we stare down the barrels of the summer lull having published IJGlobal’s league tables and the IJInvestor funds report for H1 2018, this infra hack is currently horsing up the M6 to Edinburgh to celebrate a rather significant birthday in the motherland
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LatAm healthcare PPPs – just what the doctor ordered
Social & Defence Latin AmericaLatin America’s healthcare demand has been steadily increasing, outpacing supply, and has created a thirst for more infrastructure across the region
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League tables & funds – a game of one half
Social & Defence Sub-Saharan AfricaIt’s been a busy time for IJ with our half-yearly league tables for global infrastructure and project finance and the H1 2018 funds and investor report – the finishing touches to which have been put on today
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Canadian PPP efficiency
Social & Defence North AmericaCanadian provinces are undertaking colossal pipelines of PPPs but have a formidable record of bringing them to financial close
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Redrawing the infrastructure map of Europe
Social & Defence EuropeWith business slowing down in some of the countries that have seen most of Europe’s infrastructure activity over recent years, a number of other markets seem to be picking up the baton. Among these are Spain and Ireland, and unlikely candidate Belgium
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More to Colombia than just 4G
Social & Defence Latin AmericaColombian cities are following the lead of the capital Bogota and are trying to launch a pipeline of infra PPPs
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Infra funds – it’s hammer time
Social & Defence EuropeInfrastructure’s full of surprises. Hardly a week goes by that the eyebrows don’t shoot up to the hairline (still got one) over some development or another. And this last week has seen more than its fair share of surprises
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Infra fund activity – lot more than you'd think
Social & Defence EuropeAs a young journo working the local press world in 1990s north east Scotland, an old editor – a grizzled hack bearing the scars of hard-living hackery – once said: “Angus, the difference between doctors and journalists is that doctors get to bury their mistakes, ours are out there for everyone to see”
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Friday the 13th – Nightmare on London Streets
Social & Defence EuropeLike all best horror stories, this one is set in the near future – in this case a mere six months hence – a half-year since the C Virus ravaged the market, slashing value from listed infra funds and reducing managers to husks of their former selves